Novice Network

[CazzT]

NN, on most worlds if not all, is just a clique of Mentors with a gaggle of sycophants. If you want help, don't turn to the NN. Ask in /shout. You're more likely to get help that way.

Strange - wife loved Siren's NN chat and misses it. Your the first person I've heard complain about it.

Feel free to friend me and ask me questions if I'm on.

I'm on Siren and I've rarely seen Siren's NN be anything more than a clique of Mentors who think they get to decide what the conversation is. First day I got my crown and hopped into it as a Mentor, I watched a drama llama parade ensue between the Mentors, kicking each other repeatedly and rejoining. This childish behavior happens every time I peek in to Siren's NN. I never talk there because no one is asking questions, just a bunch Mentors and their respective sycophants behaving like children fighting over a dirty lollipop.

[Xia_Thas]

This is tricky to discuss since every NN is going to have similarities and differences. As for my personal experience on Excalibur's NN there's a mixed bag of Novices getting questions answered, Novices not getting answers, drama between mentors, off topic conversations, ect.

The biggest issues of these usually is the mentor drama, you have all these people with a role akin to a chat mod who can ban each other and it leads to some messy situations where the NN is flooded by pointless drama.

As it is right now it's just a default LS new players auto join with the topic being advice and help. This of course means all the problems that come with a large group of strangers talking in one place. (Heyo sounds familiar!) The biggest thing that would help is like mentioned before, some kind of moderation that has a final say, versus the wild west public policing itself. But even then I couldn't begin to tell you how that would work or what a better system would be.

TL;DR Group chats be like that tho.

[BatLW]

what grinds my gears is that Mentors are just kicking whoever they feel. I report Mentors at least 2 times a day for kicking someone randomly because of <insert subjective reason>

The Novice Network on our server isn't toxic at all, but actually a nice little community. It just sucks that at some point you drop out of it - I feel like the Novice Network is proof that we NEED a general chat with a profanity filter and restrictions for new chars (You need to have finished the ARR Story to participate - Until then, you can use the Novice Chat) so that gilsellers can't spam it.

[KageTokage]

If you can't actually get in trouble for kicking people for an actual reason, maybe I should just start purging every last bot in NN.