More Granular LittleBigPlanet Moderation System Coming

By Paul Munn | November 11, 2008

If you’ve listened to Aeropodcast 57 with special-great-not-special-short-bus guest Julian “Rabbit” Murdoch you can hear how we all bemoaned Media Molecule’s heavy-handed moderation tactics that have blotted out some pretty fun levels from the online portion of the game. All we could do, really, is hope that somebody put a stop to the wholesale deletion of levels and show some kind of restraint. Yes, copyright needs to be protected, but if anything that even hints at some bit of intellectual property is erased — even if it’s in admiration of the work — people will just stop trying.

Witness Richard Windsor, whose longtime disdain for all things PS3 was all but forgotten once he joyfully started creating levels celebrating our shared experiences, be it about our election a short week ago or about traversing a refridgerator. Of course his anti-Sony attitude reasserted itself when his levels were wiped out and his account blocked from re-posting them (and possibly anything else), and can you blame him? These days he’s talking about getting his ball and going home, threatening to give away his copy of LittleBigPlanet. Take heart, Richard, this story is for you.

Media Molecule is now promising a much better moderation system than the throw-it-all-to-the-lions system currently employed by the copyright cops. Instead of you logging in and finding hours upon hours of hard work and cleverness deleted and blocked from being posted again from your happy hard drive, you will apparently get a message from copyright high command pointing to what bit of your level has tripped the alarm system of the great unsleeping eye of the content police. It’ll give you a chance to clear up the roadblock to your LittleBigFame and get the level posted again for all to enjoy. Of course this is a promise without a release date, but given the uproar over user-posted content I’m hopeful it lands very soon.

From PS3Fanboy.