Zwift is a private application and should be able to enforce the speech and use standards as it sees fit and the fact a user signs up and agrees to the terms of use should allow that.
Why people don’t just use other private chat tools I don’t know.
Surely not everyone wants to see a flame fest between a few users on some random topic, same as I don’t like seeing political spam in peoples usernames.
No, it’s about riding a bike. When it becomes about spamming or flaming some unrelated topic and more effort goes into that rather than riding, you might as well give away the bike and do something else.
Zwift has chat?
Who knew?
Just kidding. I turned that off after 3 minutes on my very first ride on Zwift, which was right after London was released.
I have turned it on before a few big group events but realize quickly why I turned it off.
Just a bunch of irrelevant chatter.
I’m not a fan of swearing but it’s a little ridiculous that four letter words that are filtered out by default can catch you a ghost ban but literally-non-stop sexual innuendo from a group ride leader is totally fine. Doing my first led group ride now and not sure I’ll do another.
There are many rides that aren’t like that. It does take some time and experimentation to find your people. I sometimes give a leader a second try but it’s often one and done.
Feel free to try other rides then.
If you thought that ride was bad, Eric has joined our rides before and had no qualms with our humor on the Saturday 100k ride.
Worse news for you I guess, is there is far… far worse that gets by on Zwift. Nobody is keeping anyone around; as said, if the humor doesn’t fit, move on… not everything will be a fit for everyone.
I speak for probably most here; it’s not impossible to find a ride where the humor doesn’t suit every participant. In fact, it’s actually quite easy.
Sorry if you were rubbed the wrong way, but that’s how it goes. At least we avoid personally insulting people, or worse, unlike other rides have known to do.
It can’t be all that bad when a ride is as chatty as it were.
I’m not offended; I’m just here to clarify that I get it.
I’ve been on group rides before that I was rubbed the wrong way and never did them again.
It’s completely normal. Try another one.
I’m the second person here at least telling you to realize there’s no reason to be “one and done.”
But also stating… there is an actual harassment issue on zwift that goes unchecked.
Not sure if that’s the best metric. In the group rides I’ve been on most conversations are between a small subset of the group, so you can have a super chatty ride and it still be not ideal for the average person in the group.
That said I’ve never really been too bothered myself about any of the conversations on any of my group rides, some are more juvenile than others (mostly poop jokes etc), some more innuendo than others, but overall they have been ok and mostly respectful.
That’s fair, I’ll take it. It could be arguing for several hours , or as you say, a subgroup.
Regardless, my point still remains; you can’t expect to walk a comedy night at any random place and expect to enjoy the comedian’s jokes… but that doesn’t mean there isn’t one out there for you / they’re all just as bad.
I will also say, it really depends day by day too. Even on the rides I have to sweep I don’t always enjoy the topics at hand lol; so it really varies based on who shows up.
Can’t all be winners (we can all be whiners though!).
Still not a reason to not try another one and see if it’s a better fit.
On topic though; all we know for sure is that there is some code looking for keywords, and if you hit enough of them… is when you get banned. But I can say… none of our leaders have been banned.
But it’s funny to see other group leaders become Watopians in Review (it does happen!)
, or as you say, a subgroup.