I chose to make it better when I first logged in at launch, and disabled it. I've never regretted it. I keep Zone English enabled and never have any issues with it (PC EU).

I have heard in a number of games that one way of enjoying better public chat channels is to play on EU servers rather than NA ones.

If I have zone chat on, which I usually don't, I just turn it off and continue to play. I don't get involved.

Can't say I've seen this on PC EU, but if I did I'd likely just ignore it.

Saying that, I don't understand any of the German or Russian, they could be saying anything at all

I have all of the chat channels enabled, and I can't recall last time I've seen any toxic conversations there.
Maybe I have a build-in toxic filter in my eyes, or maybe you guys who turn the chat off are too sensitive.

Update: Oh, I remember one of these days when people can play ESO for free. There was a couple of Russian kids (probably adults with child brains) flooding in the chat and there were some English speakers who blamed every Russian player for using Cyrillic alphabet in the chat.
I said Russian guys to stop it, and I said English speaking guys to calm down. Russians ignored me, English guys said they'll put in ignore list everyone who use Cyrillic. Both sides were morons, so I decided to ignore them all.

If zone is truly toxic, nothing I say will make it any better. It would probably just get worse. I can ignore people if they annoy me too much and if I absolutely feel the need to, I can use the report function. Participating in the actual chat will get you nowhere.

Report and ignore the worst works just fine.

Depends on the topic. Once it goes to politics, I let it go between the ones arguing. Not involving myself in that drama.

Turelus wrote: »

moonio wrote: »

I don't think its the job of players to police zone chat.
There are some nasty random people who just camp in the chat spreading abuse, the best way to deal with it is to switch off chat or leave the game.

I disagree. The best way to stop people spreading abuse is to stop them doing it, either by them getting official warnings and realising their mistakes, or by being removed from the game.
Whilst it's not our job to sit and police chats all day, if we do notice abuse it's better we report the people involved and let ZOS sort it out. People should be free to relax on the games they love without being confronted with toxic or abuse towards them or others.

Also before people start the "free speech" argument, you waived that right when you agreed to the Terms of Service.

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"A reasonable person's view" is subjective. There was a poll or suggestion a while, I dont remember which, and at the end the author stated "if you say anything negative about it you're being toxic."

Go play Overwatch for about 5 minutes and you'll quickly realize it's not that bad. I haven't seen anything "toxic" in /zone but that might be because I'm numb to it by this point. Or I'm in the wrong zones.

Seen plenty of dumb chat but not toxic.

Fart jokes.

I sit there and read it, i find it amusing to read whilst im doing my writs/ mob slaying. I also imagine a sassy black woman in the corner going *oh no you did Not just say that* etc etc. Makes my time more enjoyable

Maryal wrote: »

I can only speak for pc/na-

My experience reading zone chat differs based on pvp / pve zones.

I find your comments interesting because I find it's the other way around (also PC/NA). I see all manner of vulgar "conversations" taking place in PvE land. Auridon is particularly noted among my guildmates for being among the worst of the worst (conversely, I've also seen people giving away free stuff there more than in all the other zones combined). Perhaps it's because I'm in Europe so likely playing at different times of the day to you.

As for PvP, if anyone does say something "toxic" (a thoroughly over- and mis-used word on game fora these days), or something profound, for that matter, it's drowned out by the continual AD whining about purple ganging up on us, purple using bombers, purple zerging (as we all know, game mechanics don't permit AD to bomb or zerg. /s) There's so much whine (as opposed to abusive chat) in AD that I'm starting to think Cyrodiil is actually Wisconsin.

Edit: quote fail.

Fight fire with fire by being even more toxic/abusive.