Me and a friend have started to develop a game based on r/place. It recently closed, so I thought this could be a good idea.
It’s a huge canvas, it saves and syncs with servers, there’s 1x1 pixels you recolor and you have to wait 15 or 30 seconds, undecided to place a block.
The issue is, people can easily draw something inappropriate, then it’s content of our game, then they report and we get banned.
What I thought is a report system, where people can click on blocks, and it will log the report before somebody can review it, and see if it should be removed, and have the user banned.
That’s my only idea. What do you think?
Thanks for any help!
if you’re making all servers display the same canvas(which we’ll assume saves change made from every server), then I think you’d be liable if you weren’t moderating it actively. If there’s a thousand servers with different canvases(which I hope you wouldn’t do, since it’d suck to have progress deleted), you would need to have a report system with multiple moderators, but you wouldn’t be directly liable unless every player is drawing inappropriate things. Like how Meepcity got away without moderating parties for so long.
I’d say the first option would be a thousand times easier to moderate, and wouldn’t cause any headches.
if it only takes a couple minutes to draw a hotdog or a historic fascist symbol it’d really need to be babysat by moderation at all times. Someone out there could puppeteer several bot accounts to join and auto-draw an inappropriate image all at once.
Games like Subway Drawing Simulator and Paint 3 get away with this, but they have a votekick, which wouldn’t work if it was global. What I could do is add a global votekick, because it’s all global. But I feel like that could go down how it went for Arsenal. Art too good? Instant kick
but those are issues localized to a single server for moderation, if you’re talking one board across the globe, the necessity for moderator presence goes up astronomically
I suppose a solution may be similar to a votekick, but a vote “clear” wherein a vote can be called to erase all of a users’ pixels back to white, or to erase a chunk of pixels designated by whoever is calling the vote. Synchronizing votes might get pretty insane if this becomes a large playerbase
No, I mean what they did in r/place. I can’t mention it here, for obvious reasons.
Additionally, the entire appeal of r/place is that it was a time-limited thing. They were able to build so much momentum because people felt like they had to “make their mark” before it shut down.
