Azure Palace Restored on LBP

Azure Palace, which was moderated out of LittleBigPlanet's online play for reasons unnamed, is back up. Thanks to reader Michael B. for that tip. The takedown sparked much outrage among the LBP level-building community, as Azure Palace is one of the better-known levels and a favorite of many, and it was not at all obvious what the offending content was. Not sure if the negative publicity is what got the board back, but it's there. Perhaps moderators were reacting to grief flags without further inspection. That said, they still need to come up with a more transparent policy, because there's still a great deal of tension over the possibility of sudden and unexplained moderation. There's a petition for that still going on.

http://kotaku.com/5091931/azure-palace-restored-on-lbp

This is good news. Azure Palace is on of the best user generated LBP levels. The level design is great and the boss is massive. If you have LBP and you haven't played this level, you're missing out.

I am glad to see this level has been returned. Deletion without inspection is not a good way to handle level moderation.

LBP moderators should learn something from this. Clearly disclose offensive material to the authors to make corrections would be a great start.

I think that that is a great idea. Maybe they could send a warning message to the user asking to remove this this and this or it will be removed on this date.

Also, Hoorah!