Comments on: Geosautus Interviewed

By: Revolution

Revolution — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:24:25 +0000

Yeah I played it this weekend as well.
And I saw this Metal Gear based level which had changed its name from MGS something to MTS something due to moderation.

By: masoke

masoke — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:48:30 +0000

World of Colour is back – I played it last night (again), and hearted it (again).

Are there any other stories about levels being un-moderated?

I wonder if the Good Grief button (or a trigger number of presses) takes the levels offline and puts them in a queue for them to be officially checked over, and perhaps put back up. That would make sense, would show why the number of stories of people with moderated levels is much lower than Media Molecule say.

By: cc_star

cc_star — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:06:17 +0000

He is saying that the Grief Button is actually a DELETE button, which removes the level from LBP’s servers and the creators ‘my moon’

Well he’s not going that far, but others have!

Alex from MM’s comments appear to suggest that as well (allegedly)

By: funkyellowmonkey(ps3 id)

funkyellowmonkey(ps3 id) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:46:29 +0000

@megapode, good griefed by accident or not, the moderators at Sony should be doing their jobs properly!…

By: Spotter5

Spotter5 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:53:36 +0000

They moderated World of colour!?! that was an awesome level! it was even in the official playstation magazine…

By: culled

culled — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:40:10 +0000

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By: megapode

megapode — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:33:55 +0000

There’s definately something weird about all of this…
Alex Evans used World of Colour as one of his ‘poster child’ levels during the Media Molecule talk at GameCity 3. He absolutely loved it and this was the level that was left playing for everyone to try out.
Interestingly, during the presentation, he showed how the ‘good grief’ function could be used but very quickly said something along the lines of ‘don’t actually send that – you need to cancel’.
Now, that kind of suggests that the moderation might be a bit more automated than we have been led to believe.
How many people have accidentally ‘good-griefed’ a level and from that it gets borked? (Just a thought…)

By: Pixl1983

Pixl1983 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:07:33 +0000

Damn.

I knew someone would pick up on that. Are you entering Michael?

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:24:08 +0000

This guy spends “…about a week or so building and testing each level before publishing it…” – so everyone thinking a week wasn’t long enough for the TSA LBP compo, the bar has been set!

By: 3shirts

3shirts — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:55:55 +0000

I agree that they need to do something about the communication. To take down levels so widely and highly regarded without so much as an email to explain why is frankly disgusting. These levels take weeks to make and to lose that work for no good reason would be soul destroying. Sony have problems being over cautious with this stuff I remember Mr Nastytime’s hilarious Singstar videos being moderated despite nothing that broke the EULA or was rude/offenasive. It seems they take stuff down if enough jealous little picks flag it as offensive and it then wallows in an ever growing pile of ‘to be checked’ content.

By: crow-sama

crow-sama — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:36:44 +0000

World of Colour. World of Colour!? Hold up! Doesnt Mm see that that’s the biggest level out there! What are they doing! Granted the GoW level was right to be moderated but I have seen a level that blatantly uses every curse word and yet it was still up last I checked! I hope they don’t take out the sackhouette levels!

By: glennpfc

glennpfc — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:39:50 +0000

Hate to reply to my own comment, but after investigating it appears both levels have been taken down…sad panda

By: stefhutch20

stefhutch20 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:36:31 +0000

I was wondering where World of Colour had gone. It’s a shame because it was one of my favourite levels.

By: glennpfc

glennpfc — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:12:16 +0000

Have world in colour and Azure’s palace actually been modded? they worked fine earlier for me :S I don’t want to spread hear-say.

By: cc_star

cc_star — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:19:12 +0000

I’m going to throw my hat in to the ring, and say I’m creating nothing until the picture comes clearer.

I brought the game to create in, and whats the point if it gets deleted with any form of correspondence allowing you to change anything which is potentially causing the problem.

I’m even considering trading the game and buying it again in Febuary if the issues are sorted by then, if I do that, the 2nd copy I buy will deffo be a second hand one, I’m feeling about as generous to Sony/MM as they have been to me.

Good scoop TSA

By: fredrikpedersen

fredrikpedersen — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:18:57 +0000

I thinks its awesome that someone Norwegian is the top LBP creator(-curator).

Veldig bra gjort!

By: djhsecondnature

djhsecondnature — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:01:30 +0000

It’s just crazy the levels that they’re moderating. God of War I can understand but I have played both World of Colour and Azure Palace and not only were they great levels but included nothing that infringed on the EULA of LBP. I wish Sony and MM would come out and explain what is going on and sort it out. Otherwise this could begin to ruin one of the great aspects of LBP and I’m pretty sure many people will boycot it in protest.

By: SteveTheSkorie

SteveTheSkorie — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:59:04 +0000

hhhm, yeah.
Give it a couple of months and we wont even remember this whole moderation shibang.
Oh well.
Maybe Im just being a bit optimistic, but life is happier that way!