Postby Wolfsong » Tue Nov 05, 2013 2:36 am
You must not have had a CB radio growing up. You'd hear all sorts of bizarre shit on those, though usually the sort of people who had access to radios had better things to do than shout profanities into them. But talk about aliens? All the time.
The problem isn't that there are too many weirdos in Cantr. It's that there are too many empty towns in Cantr with fully functional radios all tuned to the same channel - that is entirely the issue here. If radios required upkeep (I know, machine rot is approved but not implemented) and could fall apart, you'd see fewer radios, and then fewer people who could start shouting nonsense into the radios. People in populated towns aren't the ones shouting murder into the radios, because they'd be subject to oversight by their fellow citizens - unless they're rich enough to have their own private radio, in which case they can shout whatever they want into it, because it's theirs.
So, best way to fix this problem (this problem, again, being entirely IC): either start policing radios in abandoned towns (securing them with locks, etc.) - or just pick a different band for you and your friends (ICly, of course) and talk on that and let the public band prattle on about whatever. It's not really an OOC issue. There are crazies everywhere, and that's perfectly fine to RP, though these crazies should still uphold consent rules when describing/talking about graphic events, both violent and/or sexual.
