People who played Half-Life multiplayer since its release
How the "chat rooms" function worked? Was it basically an IRC client with channels per game? Or something more? Did it require a valid CD key? How bad it was in terms of moderation?
How the "chat rooms" function worked? Was it basically an IRC client with channels per game? Or something more? Did it require a valid CD key? How bad it was in terms of moderation?
The server software had a filter list, which would attempt to filter out your basic "bad" words. That was probably the extent of moderation back then. I have a copy of the bad words list somewhere and it's not all that long compared to modern filter lists. It may not reflect the state of the list by the time WON shut down though.