The following organizations will be removed very soon:
1) Internet Banking Federation (IBF): https://community.dualthegame.com/organization/intergalactic-banking-federation-ibf
Reasons:
- Real life people represented
- Real life company names involved
- Imaginary people from popular IP represented
2) United Gérard Depardieu: https://community.dualthegame.com/organization/united-gerard-depardieu
Reason:
- Real life people represented
3) What is an Alt: https://community.dualthegame.com/organization/what-is-an-alt
Reason:
- Fake accounts spam
About the preventive measures we have in mind (we would like to have your feedback on this):
Giving the right to join an organization only if the user is a backer is a bit over the top in our opinion.
However, we are considering to give the right of creating organizations only to backers. This should limit abuses on this topic.
@Warden:
This is not explicitely forbidden at the moment as the Forum chart doesn't cover some cases that could occur on the Community Portal.
However we should update this soon.
All in all, it's also a matter of common sense:
As long as an action can have a negative impact on the Community Portal (flooding with fake organizations, fake accounts, and inappropriate content), damaging the visibility of legit organizations and/or members, yes, some action will be taken from Novaquark side (and later, with the help of the Community Portal team).
Regarding this phenomenon, while it won't impact directly the game development, it will impact it indirectly.
Here is how it works:
- As the community is growing, relying that mods will handle always this kind of things manually eternally wouldn't be very smart.
- The most logical way of handling such situation, would be to update the portal in a way to dissuade such behavior.
- Until now, the Community Portal has been developed internally, by developers who are also developing the game. At the moment, updating the portal means we take dev time that would be used on the game itself otherwise. That's an issue, we are aware of that, and that's why we are currently looking for recruiting a Web developper, that will be dedicated to the task, in order to have everyone focusing on their own specialities and to prevent any disruption in the workflow of the developers who are supposed to work on the game itself.
- Handling such abuses on the Community Portal is also time taken away from Community Managers to work on more constructive things. True, this is part of our job, but while we are handling this kind of situation, we aren't doing something else (regular reports to the dev team, new wave for the Alpha team, internal tasks related to the Alpha phase preparation, internal tasks related to the Community Portal, Moderators selection, helping the Customer Support, writing Kickstarter Updates and Newsletters... and that's far from being the whole list).
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