The only problem I have with the shoutbox is the few tards who don't log in and post all their freaking DragCave dragon eggs and hatchlings on it. I have been playing that game for years, and someone who constantly spams a chatbox with the dragons is just showing that they refuse to understand how the game works. The eggs are not hard to hatch, and they cannot be forced to hatch early with just a large number of views. (For the record, you can only
attempt to force an egg to hatch early by using the Earthquake ability that one adult dragon species has.) And just to add, all you need are views, not clicks, so all players of DragCave need to do is plop the dragons in their signature and leave it at that. Attempting to gain a massive amount of views on the dragons does not increase their rate of hatching; all it does is increase the chance to kill them.
That being said, every time someone spams their dragons, it's someone who is not logged in. One or two people who are logged in will post an egg or hatchling and happily exclaim "new egg!" or "it hatched! yay," and that doesn't bother me. They're trying to have a conversation.
Now, the spammers of dragons are not the only ones to blame. Some people have no tolerance, or very little of it, for the dragons in the shoutbox. Okay, the dragons are not hurting or killing anyone. Calm yer tits.
Besides the dragons, I have no issues with the shoutbox. I do feel that if most everyone feels that it should be modded, it should be done in all fairness. I feel that there shouldn't be any flaming allowed, as usual, or nude pictures, or a whole lot of sexual remarks. Skyrim is rated M, so I see no problem with language or a moderate amount of "adult" like remarks. Yes, we have some younger members here, but I've seen very few.
Here's another idea: How about we leave the shoutbox alone and make another chatbox or actual chatroom that only members can take part in?
Also, if the result of this thread really calls for the shoutbox to be moderated, I'd be happy to offer my service for that. I'm on this forum quite a bit, and I check the shoutbox quite often, and I'll even just watch the coversation(s) within it while I'm playing Skyrim or watching TV.
You guys really want the speech police? I'm surprised.
Same here.