Hello SM64 players, I'm sorry to meet many of you under these circumstances and the topic of the forum but I feel like this is something I really need to address as well as be discussed, I have seen this as an ongoing issue and have been noticing it's getting worse and worse. To start I would like to first and foremost give some positivity and thank the developers, they've been hard at work with giving us a very fun experience as well as modders who also greatly contribute to us having a good time. SM64 has been one of my favorite video games growing up and being able to play it with others and having many different game modes is very fun. Now to the not so positive part of this discussion.
For anyone who frequently joins public lobbies I highly urge you to be very careful what lobbies you join, I notice a lot of the lobbies with "Character Select", "Hide and Seek" (Yes DX too), a few of the "Flood" lobbies and "B3313" lobbies are all places that I have experienced these issues with, I really think there needs to be some sort of moderation on either the server side of things or we just need server hosts with some common sense frankly.
The rules of the lobbies clearly state, "no pornographic or fetish content" but I keep seeing those of the age range of twelve to fourteen talk about things like "being horny" or discussing furry content which can be held under the content of a fetish.
I myself am over 18, and seeing things like this in public lobby chats make me extremely uncomfortable, some may say "just ignore it" but it's really not something you can ignore, hence why I had to make this issue known publicly. Sure there may be a way to turn off chat, but the overall issue still isn't gone, there are still children in the server talking about very inappropriate things which someone is bound to take advantage of which nearly every community has had a problem with. I just want to try and prevent it.
You need to be much more keenly aware of what people say in the server, including those who you "may" think are your good friends. You may not want to outright ban someone your close to for saying inappropriate things and for one, I side with you on that, I wouldn't want to ban my friend from my lobby either. So please if you have friends or new ones joining your server and they begin to discuss inappropriate things, kindly remind them to stop and change the subject. Topics that I have already stated earlier as well as mentioning that it is a rule, should never ever be discussed in lobbies.
However, if you see someone trying to exchange discord usernames with each other especially someone who is an adult trying to message a minor, you need to immediately ban the adult from the server and remind the minor to never add an adult when it comes to these inappropriate topics, as I'm sure all of you know that will only damage the community and the reputation of SM64EX-COOP.
TLDR; I've experienced many servers with a large influx of minors with adults talking about inappropriate things such as pornography and fetishes. I want server hosts to be responsible and take action and simply have the common sense to put an end to this behavior, if not perhaps the external server hosts (administrators) could take action, I won't even mention the amount of toxicity I've seen in the discord server which I have held off on discussing in this forum because that's an even bigger issue.
I have more to say but this is all I can discuss publicly. I urge everyone to please take this seriously, I want all players to have a comfortable and fun environment when it comes to this game, it's been one of my favorite games to play recently as I have previously stated above.
If anyone would like to message me to discuss this matter further, please feel free to contact me via Email or Discord. I may take some time to respond, my schedule is pretty heavy so if you experience a delay I apologize, I will respond to you as soon as possible.
Email: "[email protected]"
Discord: "chaotic_warrior."
I hope everyone has a good rest of their day.
- Public Lobbies
For anyone who frequently joins public lobbies I highly urge you to be very careful what lobbies you join, I notice a lot of the lobbies with "Character Select", "Hide and Seek" (Yes DX too), a few of the "Flood" lobbies and "B3313" lobbies are all places that I have experienced these issues with, I really think there needs to be some sort of moderation on either the server side of things or we just need server hosts with some common sense frankly.
The rules of the lobbies clearly state, "no pornographic or fetish content" but I keep seeing those of the age range of twelve to fourteen talk about things like "being horny" or discussing furry content which can be held under the content of a fetish.
I myself am over 18, and seeing things like this in public lobby chats make me extremely uncomfortable, some may say "just ignore it" but it's really not something you can ignore, hence why I had to make this issue known publicly. Sure there may be a way to turn off chat, but the overall issue still isn't gone, there are still children in the server talking about very inappropriate things which someone is bound to take advantage of which nearly every community has had a problem with. I just want to try and prevent it.
- Server Hosts
You need to be much more keenly aware of what people say in the server, including those who you "may" think are your good friends. You may not want to outright ban someone your close to for saying inappropriate things and for one, I side with you on that, I wouldn't want to ban my friend from my lobby either. So please if you have friends or new ones joining your server and they begin to discuss inappropriate things, kindly remind them to stop and change the subject. Topics that I have already stated earlier as well as mentioning that it is a rule, should never ever be discussed in lobbies.
However, if you see someone trying to exchange discord usernames with each other especially someone who is an adult trying to message a minor, you need to immediately ban the adult from the server and remind the minor to never add an adult when it comes to these inappropriate topics, as I'm sure all of you know that will only damage the community and the reputation of SM64EX-COOP.
- Conclusion
TLDR; I've experienced many servers with a large influx of minors with adults talking about inappropriate things such as pornography and fetishes. I want server hosts to be responsible and take action and simply have the common sense to put an end to this behavior, if not perhaps the external server hosts (administrators) could take action, I won't even mention the amount of toxicity I've seen in the discord server which I have held off on discussing in this forum because that's an even bigger issue.
I have more to say but this is all I can discuss publicly. I urge everyone to please take this seriously, I want all players to have a comfortable and fun environment when it comes to this game, it's been one of my favorite games to play recently as I have previously stated above.
If anyone would like to message me to discuss this matter further, please feel free to contact me via Email or Discord. I may take some time to respond, my schedule is pretty heavy so if you experience a delay I apologize, I will respond to you as soon as possible.
Email: "[email protected]"
Discord: "chaotic_warrior."
I hope everyone has a good rest of their day.