Guild Permissions for Text Chat

UltimaJoe777 · August 2016

Why do we not have this? If we can permit or deny a Guild Member from using the Voice Chat Channels why can we not permit or deny them the Text Chat Channel too?

Funkopotamus · August 2016

If the person is in need of not being able to communicate at all....

Why are they even still in your guild lol?

Just remove them.

UltimaJoe777 · August 2016

Funkopotamus wrote: »

If the person is in need of not being able to communicate at all....

Why are they even still in your guild lol?

Just remove them.

You know, not every guild is of a mind to instantly kick someone just because they cause some trouble in guild chat or something...

Stovahkiin · August 2016

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Funkopotamus wrote: »

If the person is in need of not being able to communicate at all....

Why are they even still in your guild lol?

Just remove them.

You know, not every guild is of a mind to instantly kick someone just because they cause some trouble in guild chat or something...

I partially agree with that, but my personal opinion is that if the guildy needs chat to be taken away from them after a warning because they can't be trusted/still can't control themselves, then perhaps they shoudnt be in the guild. Just my two cents.

But as for your main point, yeah I don't see why not add it.

disintegr8 · August 2016

Voice chat is guild only but is text chat really anything to do with guilds?

I have not seen it yet (on PS4) but I thought it was just local chat with anybody in the general vicinity and as such is nothing to do with any guilds. If they are bagging or causing trouble with the guild and won't stop when asked, just boot them. If they calm down and you let them back in they will think twice about doing it again, or they get booted permanently.

Don't some countries have a thing called a right to free speech?

UltimaJoe777 · August 2016

disintegr8 wrote: »

Voice chat is guild only but is text chat really anything to do with guilds?

I have not seen it yet (on PS4) but I thought it was just local chat with anybody in the general vicinity and as such is nothing to do with any guilds. If they are bagging or causing trouble with the guild and won't stop when asked, just boot them. If they calm down and you let them back in they will think twice about doing it again, or they get booted permanently.

Don't some countries have a thing called a right to free speech?

Text Chat has Guild Channels. /g1 for the first Guild on the list of Guilds you're in, /g2 for the 2nd, and so on.

Stovahkiin wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Funkopotamus wrote: »

If the person is in need of not being able to communicate at all....

Why are they even still in your guild lol?

Just remove them.

You know, not every guild is of a mind to instantly kick someone just because they cause some trouble in guild chat or something...

I partially agree with that, but my personal opinion is that if the guildy needs chat to be taken away from them after a warning because they can't be trusted/still can't control themselves, then perhaps they shoudnt be in the guild. Just my two cents.

But as for your main point, yeah I don't see why not add it.

Yeah if they continue to act up after the first "punishment" they are most likely no good for the Guild and I would boot them at that time. I believe in not being too harsh if the offense is mild enough though.

pecheckler · August 2016

ESO guilds are enormous so guild leadership can't be expected to moderate that crap.

If there isn't going to be permission levels for text chat then there needs to be a means to temporarily silence a player from using guild text chat.

newtinmpls · August 2016

Or you could simply disable or ignore regular chat and do all the chatting on officer levels.

UltimaJoe777 · August 2016

newtinmpls wrote: »

Or you could simply disable or ignore regular chat and do all the chatting on officer levels.

That would solve nothing.

Stovahkiin · August 2016

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

newtinmpls wrote: »

Or you could simply disable or ignore regular chat and do all the chatting on officer levels.

That would solve nothing.

Yeah, if you're just going to talk to the officers and above because the lower ranks are too "unbearable", then please refer to my post above :P

UltimaJoe777 · August 2016

Stovahkiin wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

newtinmpls wrote: »

Or you could simply disable or ignore regular chat and do all the chatting on officer levels.

That would solve nothing.

Yeah, if you're just going to talk to the officers and above because the lower ranks are too "unbearable", then please refer to my post above :P

Yeah I'm more of a "interactive leader" kind of guy over the "pecking order" type lol

disintegr8 · August 2016

@UltimaJoe777 - saw text chat for the first time last night and the only chat I saw was guild chat with people wanting to buy/sell stuff, which I definitely was not expecting.

If that is the majority of what I see it definitely will be turned off on my console unless I figure out how to change settings to be pick and choose what I want to receive. As usual for ESO on console, everything is released with little or no in game instructions on how it works.

Still stick by my earlier comment, if a person ignores polite requests to stop causing grief, kick them from the guild.

MissBizz · August 2016

I am surprised to hear this. I thought maybe it would be attached to the voice chat, as in, if a guild member is allowed to use voice chat, they also can use text - if they can't iuse voice they can't use text.

As for anyone wondering what good this could be, it's very good for temporary moderating. Unless you have a ridiculous amount of officers, there's a good chance there can be times where no officer is online. You can create a rank with almost no privileges, and promote quite a few trusted members to "moderators" who have permission to change someones rank (but not kick them from the guild). This way if someone is causing a disturbance/harassing etc., a moderating member can "silence" the member who is being disturbing, and when an officer gets online etc. they can deal with it (whether it be a warning or kicking said person from the guild). Why not give those moderators an officer position? Maybe folks don't want to be an officer, with members inquiring about stuff constantly, but are glad to just moderate chat if necessary while they happen to be online.

UltimaJoe777 · August 2016

MissBizz wrote: »

I am surprised to hear this. I thought maybe it would be attached to the voice chat, as in, if a guild member is allowed to use voice chat, they also can use text - if they can't iuse voice they can't use text.

As for anyone wondering what good this could be, it's very good for temporary moderating. Unless you have a ridiculous amount of officers, there's a good chance there can be times where no officer is online. You can create a rank with almost no privileges, and promote quite a few trusted members to "moderators" who have permission to change someones rank (but not kick them from the guild). This way if someone is causing a disturbance/harassing etc., a moderating member can "silence" the member who is being disturbing, and when an officer gets online etc. they can deal with it (whether it be a warning or kicking said person from the guild). Why not give those moderators an officer position? Maybe folks don't want to be an officer, with members inquiring about stuff constantly, but are glad to just moderate chat if necessary while they happen to be online.

I cannot vouch for them being tied together at this time but permissions do say "Voice" chat so they probably are not.