For a long time within my server's (Siren) novice network I have noticed a disturbing trend of the chat devolving into inappropriate discourse in relation to what the game is rated. This coupled with the recent broader enforcement of the ToS has lead me to try and turn the chat when it becomes this to something more productive to what the chat is suppose to be, which is to say a chat trying to promote better play for newer players. However, this is usually met with derision by my fellow mentors, who continue to hide behind "Interactions not rated by the ESRB" and the like.

This, of course, related to the long term broader issue of novice network and unrelated discussion. I tend to take the road that unrelated discussion is fine as long as it is rating and ToS appropriate and that novice network is mostly working as intended. However, this mindset has allowed a more unseemly element to emerge, at least in Siren's novice network.

So I come to these forums to ask how we work on this, without the usual position of deleting the novice network and mentor system. How do we fix this?