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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Dec 7, 2018 20:33:43 GMT
Admins, feel free to move this thread if it should be elsewhere.
First, let me just establish that my personal position on leakers is they can go fuck themselves. I wouldn’t do anything to help them and would support effective action to censor leaks — and for me, that’s saying a lot, because I hate censorship.
I also recognize the reality that leaks are going to happen and that people are more than a little curious for juicy details about Anthem.
So what should the position of this community be?
For comparison, /r/AnthemTheGame on Reddit is taking a neutral approach where they won’t censor leaks, but they will segregate them to a leaks thread.
What do you think? Ban and censor? Censor only ? Segregate? Do nothing?
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Post by SofaJockey on Dec 7, 2018 23:20:14 GMT
It's something the moderators are discussing right now. As a 'holding' statement I think the answer is probably going to be this, but we'll confirm ahead of Alpha Test go-live.
Under ProBoards Terms of Service (summarised), and 'You' references the Admin and moderators:
You represent and warrant that you will obey the law and respect the intellectual property rights of others regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property, You agree not to upload, post, transmit, display, perform or distribute any content, information or other materials in violation of any third-party's copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights.
YOU SHALL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY VIOLATIONS OF ANY LAWS AND FOR ANY INFRINGEMENTS OF THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS CAUSED BY YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE AND SERVICES. YOUR BEAR THE SOLE BURDEN OF PROVING THAT CONTENT, INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIALS DO NOT VIOLATE ANY LAWS OR THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS.
PROBOARDS TERMINATES ACCOUNTS OF USERS DETERMINED TO BE REPEAT INFRINGERS.
Basically, it would not make any sense to permit watermarked videos and images that break copyright. If there is a 'discussion' of leaks it would also make sense to coral such content into specific marked threads.
One additional caveat, I think we would expect disclosed Alpha testers from BSN to adhere to their NDA commitments.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 0:02:08 GMT
One additional caveat, I think we would expect disclosed Alpha testers from BSN to adhere to their NDA commitments. I really don't have an answer for PC9 …
Don't want to be Pollyannaish …
And with literally thousands of folks signed up on BSN …
Someone is bound to go rogue …
But if you signed up for the alpha test, you agreed to the NDA …
And if you really became a part of BSN because of your interest in BioWare games …
A little respect and restraint is not so much to ask of you.
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Dec 8, 2018 1:14:25 GMT
It doesn’t have to be first-hand leaks by a bsner. What about second-hand leaks?
For example, a leaked text description gets posted on NeoGaf, and a bsner posts the link here. Or a screenshot on Imgur and link cross posted here. That seems a bit more of a grey area to me.
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Post by simit on Dec 8, 2018 1:19:43 GMT
My position is simple, i never signed up but im interested in how the game feels to play an if that feel will translate to replaying over an over for the grind, so that said a clan m8 from D2 got in an he going to be trying it out, i trust his opinion on gameplay an wait to see what he shares.
So basically i dont mind if ppl talk about how the gameplay is, difficulty, loadouts etc an the only thing i do mind is story, which tbh shouldn't be a problem, but if there is story to be talked about a wee spoiler heading in the thread title with the actual heading not giving anything away would be suffice.
No need to ban anyone an censorship only needed to keep spoilers of thread titles unless a BioWare employee specifically asks not to talk about it then well its the mods job to basically comply or not, preferably they would tbh
EDIT, tbh having general public sign a NDA is pretty pointless imo, you'll have well intentioned folk who wont say mum but there will always be someone who talks to someone who talks to someone who talks to someone else either because of excitement or disappointment, the best BioWare can do is lock things down which they are doing, and the best this board can do is adhere to there wishes i suppose
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Post by SofaJockey on Dec 8, 2018 1:31:50 GMT
more of a grey area to me. True enough. With porn, we are prohibited from posting and direct linking - we could use the same approach. That wouldn't stop (coraled) discussion, but you'd have to go search for the item yourself. And unless someone goes mad, banning people for an inappropriate link isn't really our style (though we may remove it). I think we'll need to see how we go...
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Post by SofaJockey on Dec 8, 2018 11:55:15 GMT
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