Ban saying the word "rec" in chat

[Vaults]

Suggestion Name: Ban saying the word "rec" in chat

Suggestion Description: The chat can be a great way to socialise, complain about the never-ending traffic on c-d and just connect with people in general. The people who spam "REC" simply take away the space that could be used for valuable conversation.

 

Why should it be added?:

 

I propose this change for the following reasons:

 

• It is intimidating to new members of the community, who may not be great at driving using KB&M then make a simple mistake and then have to face a hoard of people spamming "REC" in the chat
  • This is because it is generally meant in an intimidating/hostile tone
  • Simply stating "rec" without providing additional information or context about the rule violation can be unhelpful and confusing. It does not teach new players about what they did wrong.
  • And it also makes our community look toxic, as if we're all trying to get each other banned. Continuously seeing "rec" in the chat creates a negative atmosphere. It makes you feel like you're under constant surveillance and it can stress new members of the community out.

 

• If you did break the rules, and deserve to get reported, then there's honestly no reason someone would need to make that clear to you
  • You're simply trying to get a reaction, or make them feel bad by stating to them that you recorded whatever happened. I believe you should just report it and move on, no need to let them know.

 

• Especially in high-populated areas, someone may be blocking the road due to an engine failure or they cannot move due to someone else being in the way has to try get their message seen amongst the chaos of "rec" spammers. 
  • By allowing people to write, what is effectively, a useless message it saturates the chat and pushes down valuable messages.
  • It therefore hinders teamwork, cooperation and just general socialising.

 

• Banning the word "rec" will encourage players to deal with rule-breaking incidents via the proper channels, i.e the admins instead of calling someone out in the chat

 

EDIT: If any TruckersMP staff is reading this: I'd also like to suggest the implementation of a personal filter if this is not possible, so I can choose to hide those messages for myself.

['Matheja]

If you are disturbed, please close the chet, you know that such an event is impossible.

[Vaults]

6 minutes ago, 'Matheja said:

If you are disturbed, please close the chet, you know that such an event is impossible.

 

What? Disturbed? I'm asking for the word to be banned so we can actually use the chat to talk to people rather than having it as a backseat moderation channel.

[Serg1os]

Hello @Vaults

 

Well done for taking the time to write your opinion to make TruckersMP better.

 

 

The opinion on this fact that you mentioned It is not right for everyone's public opinion. 

There should be freedom of speech in chat everyone should write their point of view, their opinion and their complaints

 

The word "REC" is used by some to tell the other that they are breaking TruckersMP rules and that everything is recorded

 

I don't think this word should be deleted because I don't 'see' the reason.

 

I conclude that this is not properly reported and I think the TruckersMP staff will not proceed with this action.

 

 

What I said is my opinion

 

 

Yours sincerely

       @Serg1os

['Rossoo770s.]

If that words disturb your menthal,you can simply hide the chat with F9 or just ignore them as I do... the ban for the "REC" is eccessive and without sense,since every player can write there whatever they want/like excpetions for insulting/profanity excc..that is a bannable offense.

And then if you know you're not wrong, what's the problem for that?...

[!drkYVZ]

First of all thanks for your suggestion. I don't agree with your opinion. I don't think that "rec" word should be a reason for a ban.

[Vaults]

2 hours ago, Rosso. said:

If that words disturb your menthal,you can simply hide the chat with F9 or just ignore them as I do... the ban for the "REC" is eccessive and without sense,since every player can write there whatever they want/like excpetions for insulting/profanity excc..that is a bannable offense.

And then if you know you're not wrong, what's the problem for that?...

 

16 minutes ago, !drkYVZ said:

First of all thanks for your suggestion. I don't agree with your opinion. I don't think that "rec" word should be a reason for a ban.

 

 

I wrote that the word  "rec" should be banned by a filter, not the people who say it.

 

 

2 hours ago, Serg1os said:

Hello @Vaults

 

Well done for taking the time to write your opinion to make TruckersMP better.

 

 

The opinion on this fact that you mentioned It is not right for everyone's public opinion. 

There should be freedom of speech in chat everyone should write their point of view, their opinion and their complaints

 

The word "REC" is used by some to tell the other that they are breaking TruckersMP rules and that everything is recorded

 

I don't think this word should be deleted because I don't 'see' the reason.

 

I conclude that this is not properly reported and I think the TruckersMP staff will not proceed with this action.

 

 

What I said is my opinion

 

 

Yours sincerely

       @Serg1os

 

Of course, if a personal filter could be implemented where I could just choose to hide all the useless messages then that works too.

[Guest]

I don’t personally have a problem with people typing the word “Rec” however, sometimes it’s extremely difficult to know who it is even aimed at. I personally think it should be a rule if you type rec, you have to put the ID of who it’s aimed at. Too many people just put “Rec” but at the same time you don’t necessarily need a filter to not see the word people just need to be more clear who it’s aimed at
 

 

[P h o e n i x]

I say "rec @###" to people I record because some people legitimately don't know or understand the rules.

Many times i've been able to explain the rules to them and gain mutual understanding.

Just because I say it, doesn't automatically mean im going to report them.

 

Of course, even better if you don't want to see people backseat moderating and saying rec, avoid the Calais-Duisburg area and road.

 

So I don't nessecarily agree with the suggestion, as others have said you can hide the chat with the F9 key or ignore people saying it

[LillefixHD]

Hey there fellow trucker!

 

Firstly i want to thank you for making a suggestion aiming to make the community a more friendly environment for the players!

 

Unfortunately i do not really agree with your suggestion, because "rec" itself is a rather general term of "recording" which is used in basically every community that relates to gaming. I will however agree that there **should** be some sort of punishment for those who continuos spams "rec ban" and related insulting comments towards or says that the user will get banned, because that is up to the GM members to decide, i have seen this over the years develop into a worse state, and the community is unfortunately way too toxic, so at some point this **could** be a way of turning away from the toxicty which is currently along in the network.

 

Some may say that you could simply just press F9 to disable the chat, or not arrive nearby this populated area, but i do simply not agree with that. The network has become way too toxic and it would be ideal to see a step against that allowance.

[MZ-Aria.]

If that words disturb your menthal,you can simply hide the chat with F9 or just ignore them as I do... the ban for the "REC" is eccessive and without sense,since every player can write there whatever they want/like excpetions for insulting/profanity excc..that is a bannable offense.

And then if you know you're not wrong, what's the problem for that?...

[Almira xeltz.]

Hahah, I laughed harder than I've ever laughed. It's not possible, man.
There has to be a whole new system for what you want.
I remind you that you can hide the conversation with the F9 key or ignore people who say that.
 

 

[Vaults]

5 hours ago, MZ-Aria. said:

If that words disturb your menthal,you can simply hide the chat with F9 or just ignore them as I do... the ban for the "REC" is eccessive and without sense,since every player can write there whatever they want/like excpetions for insulting/profanity excc..that is a bannable offense.

And then if you know you're not wrong, what's the problem for that?...

 

If you're going to disagree with my suggestion, you should probably write your own reasoning as to why rather than copying someone else's comment exactly

 

5 hours ago, Almira xeltz. said:

Hahah, I laughed harder than I've ever laughed. It's not possible, man.
There has to be a whole new system for what you want.
I remind you that you can hide the conversation with the F9 key or ignore people who say that.
 

 

 

I don't think you're understanding what I'm saying.

 

It's quite simple: implement a filter that if someone writes "rec" in a message, the message does not get sent. Obviously a fair compromise could be allowing each individual user to filter out the messages for themselves.

Why would I want to hide the chat? I want to talk to people in it but it gets flooded by useless messages. Ignoring the messages doesn't help, as you can still see it and they push away valuable conversation.

 

I feel like a lot of the people replying are guilty of "rec" spamming themselves lmao

[Iuca]

i mean, i guess i understand where you are coming from. But its not necessary. A great way to communicate is to also use discord, the CB, teamspeak ect. 

[Niuro]

On 6/21/2023 at 2:22 PM, Vaults said:

Suggestion Name: Ban saying the word "rec" in chat

Suggestion Description: The chat can be a great way to socialise, complain about the never-ending traffic on c-d and just connect with people in general. The people who spam "REC" simply take away the space that could be used for valuable conversation.

 

Why should it be added?:

 

I propose this change for the following reasons:

 

• It is intimidating to new members of the community, who may not be great at driving using KB&M then make a simple mistake and then have to face a hoard of people spamming "REC" in the chat
  • This is because it is generally meant in an intimidating/hostile tone
  • Simply stating "rec" without providing additional information or context about the rule violation can be unhelpful and confusing. It does not teach new players about what they did wrong.
  • And it also makes our community look toxic, as if we're all trying to get each other banned. Continuously seeing "rec" in the chat creates a negative atmosphere. It makes you feel like you're under constant surveillance and it can stress new members of the community out.

 

• If you did break the rules, and deserve to get reported, then there's honestly no reason someone would need to make that clear to you
  • You're simply trying to get a reaction, or make them feel bad by stating to them that you recorded whatever happened. I believe you should just report it and move on, no need to let them know.

 

• Especially in high-populated areas, someone may be blocking the road due to an engine failure or they cannot move due to someone else being in the way has to try get their message seen amongst the chaos of "rec" spammers. 
  • By allowing people to write, what is effectively, a useless message it saturates the chat and pushes down valuable messages.
  • It therefore hinders teamwork, cooperation and just general socialising.

 

• Banning the word "rec" will encourage players to deal with rule-breaking incidents via the proper channels, i.e the admins instead of calling someone out in the chat

 

EDIT: If any TruckersMP staff is reading this: I'd also like to suggest the implementation of a personal filter if this is not possible, so I can choose to hide those messages for myself.

Interesting suggestion with one answer - If you are that much bothered by it, then play in the arcady ones. No one would REC you there as collisions are off.

[poopingcorn]

My suggestion is to focus on the road instead of the chat

[Interstate Nomad]

On 6/21/2023 at 1:22 PM, Vaults said:

Suggestion Description: The chat can be a great way to socialise, complain about the never-ending traffic on c-d and just connect with people in general. The people who spam "REC" simply take away the space that could be used for valuable conversation.

 

Who determines what content or which conversation is valuable?

[Phon]

// Rejected