On BGA, we have a very open policy on private messages: you can basically speak to anyone.
However, what is cool for most of us is not for others.
We receive a lot of messages from players suffering from harrassment or unsollicited messages from other players, mostly because of their gender. The "report this player" is unfortunately not so appropriate in many cases and is not sufficient to protect you :/
Some social platform choose to restrict the possibility to chat, for example by requiering an explicit acceptance before the conversation start, or by limiting the discussions with your "friends".
However, we think that the possibility to PM everyone is important on BGA and we found a compromise to keep this possibility while making players more responsible.
We introduced 2 protections:
- a warning is displayed when you start a new conversation, to remind you that writing innapropriate stuff will lead you to receive red thumbs.
- when you receive a first message from someone, you can choose to accept or block this person.
We hope that these 2 features will make everyone more responsible with this feature and allow us to keep private messages on BGA.
However, what is cool for most of us is not for others.
We receive a lot of messages from players suffering from harrassment or unsollicited messages from other players, mostly because of their gender. The "report this player" is unfortunately not so appropriate in many cases and is not sufficient to protect you :/
Some social platform choose to restrict the possibility to chat, for example by requiering an explicit acceptance before the conversation start, or by limiting the discussions with your "friends".
However, we think that the possibility to PM everyone is important on BGA and we found a compromise to keep this possibility while making players more responsible.
We introduced 2 protections:
- a warning is displayed when you start a new conversation, to remind you that writing innapropriate stuff will lead you to receive red thumbs.
- when you receive a first message from someone, you can choose to accept or block this person.
We hope that these 2 features will make everyone more responsible with this feature and allow us to keep private messages on BGA.