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Is any progress being made against online anti-social behaviour? | Opinion

GamesIndustry.biz

If there's one topic that's remained resolutely evergreen in the games business for the past couple of decades, it's the topic of online anti-social behaviour and how best to police it.

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Game Over: The Beginning of the End of Harassment in Games

Deconstructor of Fun

At the same time, it should not always be up to the minority to police, so having male allies taking responsibility and standing up in some of these circumstances makes a big difference. If you are an investor, make it a requirement that your portfolio companies take this topic seriously and implement code of conduct policies.

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Violence, neon and retro-wave: what demon is inside of Nicholas Winding Refn pt. 1

Filmustage

The synopsis is simple: Frank is a small drug dealer is at the center of a deal when the police attacked, so he had to throw away the drugs. And the mastery of Refn is in how he comments upon the topic of religion and believes primarily using violence. Now he needs to repay the debt to the local boss otherwise he will pay in blood.

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How I Deal With Harassment, Abuse, and Crazies In General.

The Bottom Feeder

Whenever I write about a topic that upsets me, I calm myself by illustrating it with charming, reassuring stock photos. However, the police might make a note in some database saying that SWAT teams heading to my house should be a little extra-careful. I used Google Image Search. If you get uncomfortable, stare at the photos.

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How to Build Your First Online Community to 1000 Members (or More)

Brand Game Development

You can police it heavily by banning self-promotion or limiting it to a certain amount per week. Start conversational topics on a daily basis and encourage them to comment. Numbers 5 and 6 reiterate the positive rules, with 6 doubling as encouragement to invite. The trickiest rule here is 3. Invite about 20 people who you already know.

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Combining content moderation services with graph databases & analytics to reduce community toxicity

AWS Games

However, the volume of data and interactions between users increases daily making policing these communities more and more difficult. This service can be used for many purposes such as extracting entities, topics and key phrases from text. This challenge presents itself in many industries – ranging from gaming to social media networks.

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GTA VI Looks Great, but Online It’s the Real Topic (Opinion)

Deconstructor of Fun

2) ROLEPLAYING & SLICE-OF-LIFE FEATURES: One of the most popular ways of playing GTA online games is roleplaying, where users take the role of not only criminals but also regular citizens (police officers, firefighters, paramedics…). And currently it composes a significant part of GTA streaming activity as well.

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