Friday, October 12, 2007

Regarding Spamming...

Over the past couple of hours I have seen a number of users decide to spam the public chat and it's really starting to get out of control. Spaming is technically against the rules, but the majority of Woogi World users either don't know about this rule, or do know and continue to do it otherwise. What they don't realize is that if they continue to do what they're doing, Woogi World will eventually develop a reputation for having a chat that is overflowed with nonsense. For the sake of Woogi World and members that obey the rules on it, I've decided to make this post.

What is SPAM? Before stopping yourself from doing something, you must first know what that something is. It occurred to me that the majority may not know what spam is, or at least not completely. Well, to put it simply, spam stands for Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages and is used on a lot of websites to describe a large amount of different types of messages that may be considered annoying. Here are a few that I've seen in Woogi World.

Repeating Yourself
Although it may not seem like that big of a deal, repeating yourself multiple times makes it hard for other players to talk to each other. I've had to warn several players, and so far they have been nice enough to follow my instructions, otherwise they world have been reported.

"Flaming"
Flaming, in actual terms, means to "start a fire". The same thing goes for flaming over the internet. If you tell someone to "shut up", you will most likely get them mad. After this they might take their anger out on another player, and so on and so forth. I've had to report a player fo this, and I don't want to do it again.

Nonsense/Random
While I'm not denying that being random, especially in Woogi World, can be funny, I am saying that taking to extremes is annoying. I've seen a number of people combine this with repeating themselves, and the result drove every other player away from that screen. I'm not going to be so kind on this from now on.

"ALT" Accounts
An Alt account simply means any account that is not your main one. It is fine to have multiple accounts, but using them to pretend you are someone else, or just to annoy people is not. The Big Wig can see ALL of your accounts and if you get in trouble with one, all of them may be banned.

REMEMBER: Even though Big Wig or another staff member isn't always right there, someone is bound to see you spamming and report you. I have spoken to a staff member about this and they have verified that spamming is against the rules. Also, if you want to talk to someone, PLEASE DO IT PRIVATE CHAT!



1 comment:

big_pig said...

I agree with you all the way. I to have heard this noncense and would like to stop it. I have done some of these and you've helped me realize what i have done and i will stop because now i know what i am doing that is wrong.
Thanx
-big_pig