L4D Play Responsibly Club

The goals of the Play Responsibly Club are simple: to create a group of people who enjoy playing Left 4 Dead for the fun of it, and to behave while doing so.

People who join PRC are expected to have the following qualities:

• Play for and with your team, not for your personal achievement. For example, work on ambushes when playing as Infected during Versus games.
• Play to enjoy yourself and to have fun with others, not purely to beat the opposition (though competitive gaming is being talked about now).
• Help those who are not as good as you. Instead of kicking them out of the game, tell them what they did wrong and how they can do better.
• Play in teams where some people have microphones and some do not. Not everyone has a good headset and not everyone has a nice quiet environment to use mics in.
• Behave yourself in games and chat. Griefers, spammers, rage-quitters, team-killers and elitists are not welcome.

If you feel that you have the qualities above, then please join our Steam group and hang out in chat, where all games are organised. Our group has over 850 members and we usually have enough people on every evening to play 2 or 3 concurrent versus games—we have also been known to fill 16-player UNREST servers.

The Play Responsibly Club was started on the Steam forums with a simple post that read:

Ahoy,
I am an old guy – my peers don’t play computer games (save my brother). So my L4D friends list is sparse, comprised of a few random people that I played well with on pub coop and versus games.
My pub problems are the same as others: team-killers, rage-quitters, mic spammers, callvote spammers, elitists and griefers.
My proposed solution is this: build a network of friends that play well, so that I (we) can make friend-only servers that can be filled up easily.

For my own personal friends network, I am looking for:

1) People who stick with the team on expert coop and survivor versus, and strategize ambushes as infected versus.

2) People who are more concerned with the team than their own personal score.

3) People who are there to have fun, and don’t take the game too seriously. By that, I mean they play respectfully: if you get mauled in versus, you type “nice pull” as opposed to hurl insults or racist remarks.

4) People who are not inclined to be elitist, and votekick someone who is trying, but learning.

5) People who are willing to play with those with and without mics, or are willing to be aware enough to play well without a mic.

[EDIT -> NEW]
Thanks to RichT, there is now a group for you to join through Steam:

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/L4DPRC

Pickup games can be organized in the chat room. In your Steam Friends list, click the down arrow to the right of the L4D Play Responsibly entry, then “Join group chat room”.

It has only been up for a few days and the numbers of members is well over 200. <EDIT: now over 700>
We welcome anyone that wants to play to have fun, but play to win, with class, responsibility and respect for the other players.

Kind Regards,

Rev. Dr. Douglas R Oberle (L4D ID: ReverendO)

Unfortunately that post has now become lost in the forums, but a new post has now taken over: Left 4 Dead Play Responsibly Club.