Square Enix needs to hire more GMs to moderate Novice Network chat. They don't have to be in the chat 24/7, but they need to be able to ban bad mentors quickly before they get out of control. I suggest a three-part approach:
The Novice Network on my server is full of negativity. Sometimes it even descends into full-on transphobia, homophobia, and bigotry but there is nothing the good mentors can do because kicking bad mentors will start a kick war. Just yesterday I saw a mentor trolling in the Novice Network by calling a sprout an "attack helicopter" when the sprout introduced themselves and said they were non-binary. Then the trolling mentor got kicked but his friend kicked the mentor who kicked the trolling mentor and a kick war started. I didn't think we would still have homophobia and transphobia in 2020 but here we are. Hopefully, by removing the ability to kick mentors from mentors and having GMs moderate the chat, NN will become a welcoming space for sprouts of all backgrounds.
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- Give sprouts the ability to specifically report bad mentors
- Remove the ability for mentors to kick mentors
- Bad mentors get removed from Novice Network for a day, then permanently on the second infringement.
The Novice Network on my server is full of negativity. Sometimes it even descends into full-on transphobia, homophobia, and bigotry but there is nothing the good mentors can do because kicking bad mentors will start a kick war. Just yesterday I saw a mentor trolling in the Novice Network by calling a sprout an "attack helicopter" when the sprout introduced themselves and said they were non-binary. Then the trolling mentor got kicked but his friend kicked the mentor who kicked the trolling mentor and a kick war started. I didn't think we would still have homophobia and transphobia in 2020 but here we are. Hopefully, by removing the ability to kick mentors from mentors and having GMs moderate the chat, NN will become a welcoming space for sprouts of all backgrounds.
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