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Post by belldandy213 on Sept 3, 2004 8:42:21 GMT -5
I know that certain users of neopia are really young (I'm only 12!), but there is something that I have felt is going on for a long time...
Neopia has passed a lot of rules literally preventing you from posting any controversial, or even slightly different, content on the site. I was told by Sia that when she put the word "gang" in her story, Goldy, they changed it to something completely different... That's just ridiculous! It's hard to believe how difficult it is to submit ANYTHING with real content in Neopets without getting reported... don't you think?
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Post by redpen on Sept 5, 2004 21:04:16 GMT -5
Wow, okay this is a really important issue for me.
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Okay with the Neopian Times, I found that it was a lot less sensored than I thought it would be. I found alchohaul use. Neopet abuse (The Nameless Warrior), and some other things that broke the rules. I found all of these in the NT. I think that as long as you only vaugely mention it and your story is good, you can get away with quite a lot.
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It annoys me how people have so much power on the neoboards, it is people who control who get's reported and who doesn't. Thusly the justice systum is unfair. They follow the rules, by reporting someone if they break them, but if someone shares the same opinion as them they don't report them. I have lost two accounts this way, the first with 200k in it and a lab ray map. It was my fault, but the other people who were doing the exact same thing were not reported later. I think that the neoboards justice systum really needs to be improved on, and that is were the fault in censorshiplays. Especially when you can't use certain words, like naked, even if to describe the trees in winter time, but you can use the word God. It is so hypocritical. I am done however with being frozen and am sticking strait to the rules, fair or not.
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Post by Matt on Sept 5, 2004 21:57:07 GMT -5
There have been many a debate over what people feel about the strictness of the NT. Some people hate it, some people live with it, some people agree with it.
I myself, find a few of the rules silly, but still, if you think of some of the young kids, I think a lot of them are only fair.
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Post by My email doesn't work anymore on Sept 5, 2004 22:02:35 GMT -5
What I find interesting:
While I was a counselor at the museum's summer camp I found alot of kids there also played Neopets. THing is NONE of their accounts were active. Why? Simply becasue they never recieved their activation code. And most of us can agree that it came pretty quickly for the rest of us. So I asked them if they could try and make another account later that nite only this time click the '13-17' button. Nad who would've guessed? They all recieved their activation codes instantly.
Is this some ploy that TNT is using to discourage young kids to begin playing with communication benefits? If so would it be to protect them from the older stupiderey persons on or just avoid major n00bage?
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Post by belldandy213 on Oct 10, 2004 18:02:46 GMT -5
What is interesting is that there are two categories of newbies:
1. The newbies that have no idea how to play, and beg other people for help instead of learning themselves.
2. Newbies that make a HUGE effort to discover how to play and eventually become millionaires with tons of trophies... or at least get a good grasp on the game.
A large percentage of the useless ones are not as young as you would think either. In fact, many are 15, 14, or 13. When I started the Neo I started without parental permission, and it wasn't until after about 6 months when I got parental permission and really started playing the game. In other words, I was only 10 and I was able to earn 100's of 1000's of neopoints and paint my pets good colors and become a respected member of a top guild in neopia.
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Post by tennmagpie on Oct 10, 2004 18:29:21 GMT -5
What is interesting is that there are two categories of newbies: 1. The newbies that have no idea how to play, and beg other people for help instead of learning themselves. 2. Newbies that make a HUGE effort to discover how to play and eventually become millionaires with tons of trophies... or at least get a good grasp on the game. A large percentage of the useless ones are not as young as you would think either. In fact, many are 15, 14, or 13. When I started the Neo I started without parental permission, and it wasn't until after about 6 months when I got parental permission and really started playing the game. In other words, I was only 10 and I was able to earn 100's of 1000's of neopoints and paint my pets good colors and become a respected member of a top guild in neopia. I really hate it when people assume that all n00bs are ten or eleven or whatever. -_- Yeah, I know that's a bit irrelevant, but I just needed to say that. I never made a huge effort to learn how to play because Neopets is basically self-explanatory. You feed your pets, you play games, you restock, you sell stuff... it's not that hard to figure out. I don't have parental permission on my main account. None of my pets are painted. (I have an Electric Blue Paint Brush in my SDB, just waiting for an Isalnd Paint Brush so I can paint Flex and Ruby at the same time.) I'm not well-known in the NT or anywhere else. Ruby's not a Battledome legend or anything. But I still consider myself to really be playing the game because I'm having fun with it. You don't need to be famous to really be playing the game. |
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Post by belldandy213 on Oct 10, 2004 20:08:44 GMT -5
I really hate it when people assume that all n00bs are ten or eleven or whatever. -_- Yeah, I know that's a bit irrelevant, but I just needed to say that. I never made a huge effort to learn how to play because Neopets is basically self-explanatory. You feed your pets, you play games, you restock, you sell stuff... it's not that hard to figure out. I don't have parental permission on my main account. None of my pets are painted. (I have an Electric Blue Paint Brush in my SDB, just waiting for an Isalnd Paint Brush so I can paint Flex and Ruby at the same time.) I'm not well-known in the NT or anywhere else. Ruby's not a Battledome legend or anything. But I still consider myself to really be playing the game because I'm having fun with it. You don't need to be famous to really be playing the game. Yeah, I know... Neopets is all about fun. I just make an effort to earn enough to paint my pet, and I enjoy contests. ;D Yeah, it's stupid how people always assume newbies to be little kids... but you've got to admit that quite a few of them act that way....  |
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Post by The Wanderer on Oct 10, 2004 21:30:03 GMT -5
These rules are the primary reason I quit neopets. These people seem content on living in their own little world, turning everyone away from the harsh, but undeniable face of reality.
I don't like having to watch what I say. But in some ways, I guess having a clean tongue, free of curse words, is advantageous.
Still, posting a mere mention of something negative in reality, and having some "bot" pick up on it no matter where you are posting. In my case, I was warned for posting my pity on the woes that take place in Israel. When I realized I could be frozen for pity, then I decided my time in Neopia was over.
But I guess that's the way it is. If a few people in the world don't like what they see, they will rally others to their cause and change it to something they are comfortable with. Thank you corporate sponsors. You have ruined a great site for those of us who wanted a virtual place to unwind.
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Post by theunorthodox on Oct 10, 2004 21:44:11 GMT -5
#1's are refered to as N00bs. When I started out, I tried my best *not* to be a n00b. I was friendly and polite and made a lot of friends in the BC. By the two month mark I already had all my pets painted the colors I wanted, nice petpets for each, and three art gallery trophies.
I can deal with the NT censorship. Once you learn what they don't like, it's not that hard to work your way around it safely. (EI- use 'club' rather than 'cult' and 'pack' or 'crew' rather than 'gang'.)
The boards are a little more annoying. I got warned for posting 'Ebay'. e.e*
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Post by Jessica Coconut on Oct 11, 2004 1:01:33 GMT -5
I remember I started way way back, when I was about 11. No parental permission. I LOVED learning things on my own, it's so much fun. It was great discovering such and such. Figuring out puzzles alone. I remembered the days way back when I was just starting and competed with my little brother for more NP, and by more, like I had 1000 and he had 790. Not a lot. Neolife was fun back then. Now I seem to be in it for keeping up with interesting new features, the NT, and my guild. Saving for stuff... meh. I have to much NP that I know what to do with. And I don't even have a million yet. I can hardly afford many HT items.
I just like having it - call me greedy, but I do spend. I spend a lot on gifts, things for guild members, helping out with their expensive medicine...
Only occaisonally do I try quests. I can often afford stuff... but I know it's often not worth it. I've also fallen behind on the general prices of items.
But I loved the beginning, I had the most awesome feeling. I can hardly remember it. But I don't get it often, it's a really happy, indescribable feeling. Happiness, fun, pleasure, thankful for what I had, the "WOW!" feeling. The kind of thing that you get almost once ever. Like when I got my first random event, which just so happened to be an Invisible Paintbrush, from Jacko the Phantom Painter. I was lucky, and niave. I didn't know that my uni would be completely gone, I thought I'd see an outline, so I immediately bought a blue paintbrush again. *sigh* But I didn't care.
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Post by emmaleighhde on Oct 18, 2004 22:57:18 GMT -5
Alot of things on the internet, and in real-life things to are turning in this sort of direction. It's not a turn for the good either...that's for sure. In alot of instances you can't voice opinions on certain matters. Like what's happening over in Iraq, and places of the like. But also, it's not really the 'authority' who are at fault. It's the sadly growing amount of people who ruin things like freedom of speech.
My cousin who just recently moved up from Christchurch to here; Hamilton (New Zealand by the way). She did a School speech on Freedom of speech, and she tested it on me a few weeks ago, getting me to time it. She had some really good points in it. Like; 'Freedom' of sppech...do we really have freedom to say what we like???
Again; it's the people who don't respect others. Like on Neopets, it would've only taken a few people to insult a religon, or culture to ruin it for the rest of us wouldn't it???
That's just my opinions anyway...
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Post by Gail on Oct 22, 2004 9:03:19 GMT -5
I have some depressing yet true news relating to neopets. I think it's almost to the point of neopets allowing whatever- the neoboards are corrupted well BEYOND repair. Anything they do will be backfired. Like getting rid of general chat? It brought the inapproprieate stuff to nearly every board. I think there should be some things- but if you abbreviate seconds a certain way- it's blocked, that's a little too far. Stuff that is different should be allowed. It needs to be set up like the neowriters forum (changing a few things) but minus the 99% of n00bs... It's so depressing how all of these people ruined neopets like this!
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