Facebrowser & it's current state

[Selena]

1 minute ago, Yoak said:

this is a genuine general discussion and id like to get the feedback from the community before moving towards staff 🙂

What are you looking to get out of this thread? Genuinely asking.

 

Are you looking for some sort of clarification from admins sides to what's going on with FB? Etc.

 

Let me know, thank you!

[Yoak]

Just now, Selena said:

What are you looking to get out of this thread? Genuinely asking.

 

Are you looking for some sort of clarification from admins sides to what's going on with FB? Etc.

 

Let me know, thank you!

Hi Selena

 

Thank you for your response! I am trying to gauge the communities opinion on the state of Facebrowser, I wanted to air my opinion and see if others agree with what is going on with the site & hopefully write something up to contact yourself or someone in the FB team to see what the plan of action is, since it is currently not used as it is intended.

 

Back in 2018 when I joined the server and when I first joined FB on my first character, it was a site for adverts, communicating and uploading some subpar menyoo photos, which was great. Now it's all half nude chicks, dudes portraying character they're not and a lot of people just RP over FB rather than logging in!

 

As someone who leads FB, what is your take on this?

[Peak.]

From my point of view I run the LSPD HQ account, I try to share as much information as I can from LSPD to share with the community (i dont know if anyone even cares!) But there are multiple uses for the site other than the listed.

 

[Yoak]

1 minute ago, Peak. said:

From my point of view I run the LSPD HQ account, I try to share as much information as I can from LSPD to share with the community (i dont know if anyone even cares!) But there are multiple uses for the site other than the listed.

 

100%! This is what the site should be about, not selling your characters nudes/posting nudes etc. It's a great site for arranging roleplay, but it tends to lead to people arranging only sexual roleplay

[Zerosum]

-Snip-

 

Revising my statement. Just block the people you don’t care for. Problem solved. Might not be anyone left to interact with but it is what it is. 

Edited August 19, 2022 by Zerosum

[county vida]

I curse facebrowser in the name of papa legba  

[Selena]

21 minutes ago, Yoak said:

Hi Selena

 

Thank you for your response! I am trying to gauge the communities opinion on the state of Facebrowser, I wanted to air my opinion and see if others agree with what is going on with the site & hopefully write something up to contact yourself or someone in the FB team to see what the plan of action is, since it is currently not used as it is intended.

 

Back in 2018 when I joined the server and when I first joined FB on my first character, it was a site for adverts, communicating and uploading some subpar menyoo photos, which was great. Now it's all half nude chicks, dudes portraying character they're not and a lot of people just RP over FB rather than logging in!

 

As someone who leads FB, what is your take on this?

No worries.

 

Unfortunately, I did write up a long winded response but felt I was diverting from the original topic - what I can say is, FB Moderation is here to ensure the rules are kept in place (which reminds me, I have a new set of rules being finalised that are in fact, fleshed out and further explained) - nudity is a no go. Nervous has expressed his thoughts to myself and we've unilaterally agreed that nudes will not sit on the site. However!

 

If Jane Smith wants to post an explicit photo, that's on Jane Smith for the backlash she may receive, the scrutiny or the love she'll get for it. As FB Moderation has progressed under my leadership from 2019 - time and time again people have aired their thoughts about being allowed to post what they want.

 

Rules have been tweaks and demands have been met. However, the players that use it are still not happy with the rules - now being able to post (nearly) whatever you want except for outright nudes, players report one another for posting explicit photos and bitch when it doesn't get deleted.

 

I will state that FB is not here to dictate what you're posting. There limits to what you should and shouldn't post. Outright genitalia being one, porn is another, murdering someone etc. But when you find the funky side of Facebook you will find accounts that do this and unfortunately we cannot step in as it does not breach the rules we've got. Nor does it breach the "nudity" rule.

 

Whilst I wish we could go back to 2018-2019 FB where people were genuinely wholesome and kind to one another, I have to accept as should everyone else, that communities progress, people progress, new people join, factions join, civies join, gang members join and at some point they will clash, and they have clashed before.

 

I'm fine with letting people use this platform for what they wish to display - but QuickDate is there for a reason. It's supposed to allow players to post what they want without the immediate reaction from FB mods.

 

Additionally, I will mention thanks to our wonderful Development Team we've got a new feature being implemented in the coming days to attempt to tackle the NSFW content. What I will say is, it's less likely to be removed (your post that is) with this feature and it allows players to scroll past unbothered. Should they be bothered.

 

My vision is not going to be met due to each and everyone being their own individuals so thus, the vision has to be bent to fit the playerbase. We're implementing features for all players to utilise and hopefully improve a large portion of FB as is.

 

What I will mention is as a side note: Please stop mentionining FB Administration/Moderation/Mods etc - we're OOC entities moderating the site and we're not to be taken IC.

 

I hope that clears some things up - finally, if there are fundamental issues with something going on, arguments taking it a step too far, OOC mixing, OOC motivation towards bullying, RPQM cases etc, you can forward them to me, you can send RPQM a report yourself, you can submit a forum report on whomever. There are avenues, but with roughly 10,000 active users on this site, it's unrealistic to expect a couple of Mods (voluntary) to handle the influx of reports coming in.

Edited August 19, 2022 by Selena
I CAN'T SPELL

[Barbie]

As someone whose character heavily relies on FB as a way to generate RP, I agree. I see more and more characters that are not played in game at all and the same topless picture of the same looking character with a different name.

However the reason these characters are so prolific is because the community can’t resist pixel titties and like and comment on each of these pictures. The best way to reach a high like count is to take skimpy pictures, just like in real life.

There’s nothing anyone can do except people who are the type to engage with these posts to stop interacting but they seem satisfied so… the unfollow button is your best friend.

[Mitch]

1 minute ago, Selena said:

What I will mention is as a side note: Please stop mentionining FB Administration/Moderation/Mods etc - we're OOC entities moderating the site and we're not to be taken IC.

 

I agree with the majority of your statement but this. How can Facebrowser be ran IC'ly without any moderation or admins? It makes no sense the only platform we can use isn't ran by anyone. It doesn't make any continuity sense for a platform to still receive updates, yet have no official 'IC' management or leadership. You could throw a dummy John Doe for leadership, but saying that your OOC is kinda weird. 

[DeadPlaya]

2 minutes ago, Mitch said:

I agree with the majority of your statement but this. How can Facebrowser be ran IC'ly without any moderation or admins? It makes no sense the only platform we can use isn't ran by anyone. It doesn't make any continuity sense for a platform to still receive updates, yet have no official 'IC' management or leadership. You could throw a dummy John Doe for leadership, but saying that your OOC is kinda weird. 

It really isn't that big of a deal bro.