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E3 2012: Nintendo’s Dick Detectives to Delay Wii U Message Posts

By Brian P Rubin | 07 June 2012 | 10 Comments   

A report in the LA Times reveals that Nintendo plans on delaying the display of messages shared on the Wii U’s Miiverse public message board thing to allow the company to moderate each and every post.

“The attraction of a social network is the immediacy of the feedback,” Nintendo’s president and CEO Satoru Iwata is quoted as saying. But because parents need to feel like it’s a safe space for kids, Nintendo plans on having each and every post reviewed by a company employee—causing a big ol’ lag.

Said Iwata: “Personally, I think 30 minutes should be acceptable.”

In addition, users will be able to flag comments they view as inappropriate, which is pretty standard. But a 30 minute lag, and the chance that your awesome dick-picture won’t be posted at all? What a pain!

I’m hopeful that Nintendo creates a “grown-ups only” type of space on Miiverse that doesn’t need to be moderated so much—or at all. It’s Nintendo’s network, and it’s certainly their right to censor it as they see fit. But losing out on the immediacy of online communication, I have a feeling that Miiverse will wither and die before it has any chance of actual community taking root.

Alas.

Via LA Times

10 Comments

  1. Posted by you're on 07 June 12 at 2:44pm

    learn the difference between your and you’re kid..

    • Posted by Lawrence Sonntag on 08 June 12 at 10:32am

      And yet, one of the two of you gets paid to write about video games all day. HUH.

      • Posted by SemiPolish on 08 June 12 at 11:25am

        Internet anonymity makes idiots far too bold.

  2. Posted by Joh on 08 June 12 at 7:21am

    Aww man. So if i need help on a door breaking zombie then its either wait 30 minutes or go on my computer, which defeats the purpose of Miiverse…

  3. Posted by Landon Robinson on 08 June 12 at 11:26am

    We cannot escape the dick GIFS. This place was once populated with adorable failing kittens…but now, it’s a wasteland…of dicks.

  4. Posted by Galo on 08 June 12 at 11:39am

    I guess I’ll have to post my dick drawings somewhere else…

  5. Posted by Persio on 08 June 12 at 4:04pm

    I think they should allow users to give their age and separate the kids from the adults. But parents will have to actually do their job and make sure their kids don’t change it.

  6. Posted by bloo-guhloo on 08 June 12 at 6:34pm

    30 minutes. jeez. i like the idea of having a place that doesn’t need to be moderated, if just to get messages out quicker. though i disagree with the fact that the write thinks that it will wither and die before it can take root, if just because people can’t cuss freely and put there drawn porn up there. I doubt anyone with the slightest bit of intellect will be driven away, just because they can’t say “WTF!!11″ and show pictures of them raising there middle finger, every time they lose on a cutesy mini-game

  7. Posted by yore on 11 June 12 at 1:07pm

    what about yore

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