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Re: Dealing with OOC
We had this as an issue for a while, with most of the admin leaning towards trying to strangle it out in the hopes it'd go away. It doesn't seem to work.
We've recently introduced an OOC channel and relaxed some of the restrictions on it out-of-game, in the hope that it will cut down on the OOC chatter in-game. It seems to be doing fairly well (at least initially) to reduce the disruptive OOC chatter we tend to get between characters - those ones that hop back and forth. The channel is one that can be switched off, for those that don't like the constant flow of chatter - that way you have both sides covered, for those that don't like it, and those that do.
On the upside with the OOC, it also does a lot to add to the community feel... in the age of social media and communication we're in, people do want to socialise. I don't think it's something you can realistically stomp out without frustrating the playerbase, and cutting down on your sense of community  |