Posted by Dedicated Help Chat Helpers

🦜 Jenday [Fable]
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2022-09-26 14:30:43
A simple suggestion: employ a dedicated voluntary role to act as helpers in Help Chat.

Help chat is an underused resource for all players, particularly for new and returning players who are just finding their feet. Questions are instead asked in main chat which, while allowed, can lead to misinformation either purposeful or accidental, as well as things being missed or ignored because people are busy chatting.

One of the main reasons for this misuse, I believe, is because of the lack of a dedicated support system in help chat. Currently players can dip in and out when they have a question, but this leads to an inbalance in inexperienced vs experienced people in this chat. At times, the wait time for a question to get a response can be over an hour if at all. Having dedicated staff present to answer questions would aleviate this and make the chat a more useful resource.

This role has existed in a more simplified form in the past, with players getting 'helper' badges and extra help like feed all play all. However, as with all special role players, helpers recieved more harassment and other issues as a result of their publicly known role. This led to the role's removal during the update that granted anonymity of moderators. If the role was to return, it should be coded similar to a moderator position with reduced access/capabilities. Helper answers could appear in an anonymous box, a recoloured variant of moderator responses' green box, an ability restricted exclusively to help chat.

To make this change more worthwhile I'd also suggest mods in main chat redirecting questions to help. Not banning questions in chat per se but more increasing awareness that theres better places to ask.

TLDR:
Dedicated helpers in help chat would
-Be an anonymous role.
-Be capable of creating anonymous helper boxes (similar to moderators green box responses) exclusively within help chat.
-Reduce frustrations in main chat
-Guarantee more accurate answers for players
-Increase the usefulness and thus usage of help chat

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This suggestion has 62 supports and 3 NO supports.



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Edited on 07/05/23 @ 15:15:17 by 🦜 Jenday 🦜 [Fable] (#177530)

PussyDestroyer037(fl
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Posted on
2022-09-26 14:31:56
I wanna be one that’s all I know lol



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starscape (#154804)

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Posted on
2022-09-26 14:33:07
huge support!! i know lioden used to have helpers but for some reason they were all sacked and imo that was a shit decision. we NEED helper staff! main chat is flooded with people who dont know extremely simply things and their constant questioning (and pissiness when they dont get an answer) is completely ruining main for a lot of folks.



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🥝 Kiwi | Lifelong
Hiatus 🥝 (#251788)

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2022-09-29 21:09:49
I love this idea!!

I was one of the top helpers for YEARS on Mweor, and was disappointed that Lioden didn't have the same thing.
It really helps someone connect to their online community, and makes newbies feel more welcome. It shouldnt be too hard to join though, because I feel that it would dis-encourage people who wanna help.

Otherwise 10/10 would support



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[Uneven RLC] (#290622)

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2022-11-08 08:37:01
The only problem for this is that lioden is already low on mods.



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Thalath {Side} (#43831)

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2023-03-16 11:25:34
While I agree with this, there actually was specifically a Helper role on this site that was actually removed a few years ago and it probably isn't coming back.



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✨ Paipa | G2
Tri-Ros Pie (#98498)

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Posted on
2023-03-22 16:20:02
I was Helper in 2017, sometime before the role was destroyed. So, I am not sure if I will support it or not support. The idea is nice, but I know first hand how hard seeing and answering all the questions in the chat is. Especially ones needing longer answers. And getting thanks was not guaranteed, usually, we got rotten tomatoes thrown at us from the mostly impatient question-askers and yeah, I wouldn't want that job for anyone nowadays. Then it was okay mostly. Without my fellow Helpers, I would have stopped sooner. Oh and also it takes a lot of gaming time, so we got free FAPA to take care of our pride.



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Edited on 22/03/23 @ 16:20:43 by ☠️ Paipa | G3 Demiurge BO (#98498)

🦜 Jenday [Fable]
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Posted on
2023-03-22 16:27:15
Thats fair, I never really considered the backlash from rude players being more focused on helpers A possible fix for this could be making helpers anonymous similar to moderators, but restricted to help chat & to those with the helper role?



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✨ Paipa | G2
Tri-Ros Pie (#98498)

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Posted on
2023-03-22 16:32:29
Good idea! It was nice to be acknowledged sometimes and be part of the staff, even though not in a higher position, but yeah targeting was usually begging in our PMs, in chat, getting hate pretty much at some points. Yes, we did report those, but we were more targeted than normal players and had to constantly be in limelight. I love helping and that was the reason I accepted the invitation, but the other stuff ruined it for me and some others. So yeah, now supporting if the position would also be anonymous :)



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🦜 Jenday [Fable]
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Posted on
2023-03-22 16:57:58
Great! Ive updated the main post to address the concern & solution <3



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