Topic: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

Firstly, the Uni News post is way too vague and doesn't even express what kind of actions it is targetting.

Second, with the addition of this rule, the mods, specifically Mizzle have been harassing Baratheon on his tactics, but how can this be allowed last round when a MOD, Genesis along with Torqez decided to put a family together of 4-5 people and kill off anyone else that wished to play in the family?  It sounds quite hypocritical that all of a sudden half way through the next round when it is someone that people dislike doing it, it suddenly is blockable?   We even had a long list of people who we removed as our fam pic and mods never had a problem with that.

Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

Probably wasnt a blockable offense till it became an official new rule... 'nuff said...

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Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

You forgot yourself and Nolio were active members/supporters of that fam too.  Don't be a hypocrite, by excluding yourself.

Regardless, rules can change, and in my opinion, this is a rule for the better of new players. ...well, at least a step towards it.

However, it's going to be really hard for them to enforce.  For example, at what point do you say someone needs to be removed due to their inactivity.  Inactivity hurts a fam, if another fam targets them for raids/infiltrations etc often the fam suffers - a lot.  So, often you need to remove players yourself.  BUT ....where do you draw that line? No logins in a week?  One login a day?  Only 6 hours active a day?  It can get absurd.

I do agree with you, that the new rule post if a bit vague and some clarifications should be posted.

4 (edited by Relish the Troll King 01-Dec-2011 05:55:55)

Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

I'm not being a hypocrite by excluding myself as it isn't the tactic that I am talking bad of nor was I involved in putting the fam together, I was a random but I do not have anything against it.  You can also see that I used the word "We" in there.

It's the sudden decision to start harassing an IC player over it just because they don't like the guy.  It was perfectly fine and no mods spoke bad of it when it was done last round with mods in the fam, former mods, and myself but now in the middle of a round it's decided and without a warning, the guy is being sent a Final Warning about it.  It's favoritism being shown by the mod teams yet again.

It's also a guy that Mizzle has a lot of shares with and wants to be able to hit and can't.  Seems like he just wants to block the guy to have a shot at free expos.

Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

Things are not illegal untill there is a rule against it.

And we realise it is vague, which is why we will not block on sight in case of violation. People will be warned/asked to cease whatever it is they are doing first, and then if they continue with their actions, a block will follow.

It is also important to know that this rule requires all mods to agree something is in violation of the rule before blocks can be made, it can't randomly be used by two mods that want someone out of the way.

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Primo

6 (edited by Relish the Troll King 02-Dec-2011 11:19:44)

Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

Then why is Baratheon being threatened with it when half the mods have said they have no issue with it?

Also doesn't it seem stupid to keep it vague and try to correct it after something happens and someones round is ruined rather than explain the general things that are meant by this rule to warn people and try to prevent it first?

Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

May I ask what mod did not agree what Baratheon was doing was wrong?

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Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

Can we instaid of having a pointles discussion get an answer to the question instaid?! Clarify and or give examples, ultimate power corrups. The players must be able to correct the mods if their wrong also! R u gonna post wich people and why theyve been warned? Or u gonna keep it in the dark and well have to trust your word on it? , cuz i dont

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Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

Seeing as we don't discus blocks in the forums, no.

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Primo

Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

how about discussing the rule lol?

Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

what is there to discus?

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Primo

Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

In an ideal world rules and conditions would be simple and a bot would be able to enforce them. But we all know that is not how things work and that is part of why mods are here, to try to be objective to the best of their capabilities. I agree that the post is rather vague, but certain matters are left to be judged on the situation specific to get the best possible result.

ps. I am not a mod, just giving my opinion as player smile

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13 (edited by Paininside 03-Dec-2011 01:23:54)

Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

this aint rl this is imperial conflict.... the most used excuse for people to disbehave that others shouldnt whine.

so why not make the rules simple? if things get abused u add another line. that is actually how law is created.
if u keep the law in public people can play by it. and then u can quickly see who's breaking it!

That is what we aim for issnt it? People to behave? Then why point to RL as this is exactly the way its done.
Then the judge (mods could fill this place) can stil cast their verdict, but by you making it open and clear for everyone, only then you can get the people to trust the system and play by its rules.

Just as in real life...

Do you want realy want every child or misbehaviour from the game run to the mods and point by reason of losing a planet for example, this only wil make sure the mods wil get more work, they have to check into more people. This is the only maze in this law, pritty big one.

Mods want to play dont ya? we work enuf in rl as it is. Perhaps u could let the community help build these laws, saves you even more trouble tongue

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Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

I think the rule is very good

Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

it's not like every rule can be black or white, many yeah but not this one. this acts more as a guideline to let people know to be nice to newbies/inactives. we can leave the specific judgement up to the mod team, and i for one trust them... especially as a team. and since primo clarified that each decision needs to be agreed by the whole crew, along with there being a warning period, i think this one's clear enough.

btw testunidae, your posts would have much more merit if you can write them without including personal attacks. whats the point of accusing and abusing the volunteers who try to keep the game going?

16 (edited by Arby3 03-Dec-2011 05:19:45)

Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

I will kill off SS and\or Inactives as per usual, if they have a problem then they should have actually played the game properly or as a constructive family member, I spend hours upon hours here and recent rounds have taught me to not keep these [BAD WORD IS BAD] around long enough to get raided and then ruin my round...

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Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

By definition then Forever should be warned if he does this as he'd be abusing the rogue or inactive tag =p

Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

There is nothing wrong with an SS player. If you spend hours and hours on this game, then you should know how to use your SS players to your advantage.

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Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

yes indeed smile which is an example of how crap this is but I suppose it will only be the "SS" players or Family conflicts\clashes players who will complain they're getting unjustly treated, the inactives hopefully dont get a chance to lol smile

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Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

No way, SS die! unless you're someone that can play and play well, otherwise if you're a stupid n00b thats SS'ing for the hell of it then I dont care, you're dead.

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Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

all this trouble would be solved if we had a true regular SS gal, and not stupid experiments like the last rounds in SD.
That way those SS dont have a reason to join PW or MW and ruin a family round wasting a valious slot.

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Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

> Arby3 wrote:

> There is nothing wrong with an SS player. If you spend hours and hours on this game, then you should know how to use your SS players to your advantage.


Yes, letting them explo then taking them planets and killing em off tongue   wise words Arby3

23 (edited by ~Wornstrum~ 03-Dec-2011 14:14:25)

Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

Well there is a difference between killing off 1 person in your fam, and killing off your entire fam (apart from inactives) which is what Bara has done...there were alot of complaints aimed at Bara, and many complaints sent to mods...now, the only reason Bara was killing off players was because his leadership was under threat, as only inactive players voted for him. Instead of allowing the whole fam to decide the fate of the fam, active members were killed off in order to secure his leadership.

I find SS players are mostly n00bs, who actually have little experience dealing with fams, and as such are scared to deal with the fam. I for one was SS when I started playing ONLY because I was unsure how family aid worked. Then went to teams, and found no matter how much I sent, my partner wouldn't send much back (and I never like asking for aid, never sure how much is being greedy)...there is often a hatred towards SS players, but you could certainly encourage their input into the fam and show them HOW a team works together...

So in essence, killing off an inactive player would be seen as ok (i mean if you seriously never see any activity from him, kill him off)...leave SS players alone and maybe try and bring them into the fam a bit more, and let family politics play out, and you won't have any problems with the rules...play the game, don't try and dominate your fam, it's that simple tongue

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Re: Mods, Clarify the justification on the new rule please?

wornstrum that all depends what fam newbies random into, if they land with me & i know they are noob or not much game time i'll take time to help them. as always try to include everyone in the family system.