In the older days (or however long Boomboxes/Radios were around,) it made sense. If somebody was blaring an extremely loud and obnoxious audio, unless the game had a built in feature to mute radios, you either had to completely mute the entire game or leave and join another server where somebody else was likely doing the exact same thing. In those days, it makes sense why moderation started cracking down on excessively loud audios.
However, with the copyright update rendering boomboxes effectively useless, this begins to make less sense. If the concern is developers purposefully scaring their players with loud audios and jump scares, well…that’s the entire horror genre, what do you expect? If the concern is games just filled with loud sounds, making the game unbearable to play, then nobody will play it and it will die out. Why warn somebody for uploading extremely loud audios? Is there a loophole of sorts that I’m missing?
When I really started thinking about this was when I got warned and kicked from an experience for playing some metal over my mic for friends to listen to. Admittedly, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but you can just…mute my microphone if you don’t want to hear my music. I’m not forcing anyone to, it’s just the click of a button.
I’m not sure if this is largely due to AI moderation or if somebody is simply reporting me for playing my music, but I argue it’s largely pointless and dangerous to warn/potentially ban somebody for a “loud mic,” when again…you can just mute them. It’s not like your entire playing experience is ruined.
I’m also not trying to be rude about this at all, I’m just genuinely confused as to why this is still a thing you can get in trouble for when the primary issues with it (at least to my knowledge) died out over the last few years of updates to the platform.