Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27097330-20170224221935/@comment-26347028-20170319115056

ChazmanianDevil wrote: Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote: ChazmanianDevil wrote: Auraestus wrote: I edited the rules a bit, take a look. It's better, but for the biggest problem was always the message wall clause and that remains. A user can do as they wish on their message wall, and to say otherwise encourages harassment and authoritarianism. Then that's the issue, not the whole damn system. I don't care how you want to implement such a system, so long as it prevents abuse of it. I tried to do that, and you lot yelled at me that by preventing abuse I was taking away people's own "right" to do certain things. There are other problems of course. There's no game master freedom clause, it kind of rules out democratic rule making, and the way you got them passed was almost as bad as Dragon's whole conspiracy ban. And by the time they're reworked like this, they're no longer you're rules.

The way I see it there are three ways through this. The simple, effective rules, decided upon by the wiki, your rules, or a new set hammered out by Aurae. While the third option may seem the most appealing to people who don't want to take sides, it really only puts off the problem. I fail to see how any of it was at all a conspiracy or anything like. Sure, I'm annoyed that you lot went in and threw out some incredibly functional and well-defined rules for the piece of (you'll have to excuse me saying so) shit that you did replace it with, but I'm not some lunatic who goes on a personal vendetta the moment anyone dos anything against me.

The crap vomited out by Imrahil, Patrick, and co. (can't remember if you were part of it) showed a clear lack of understanding on all points. It's simple, sure, but simple also in the sense that it's stupid. It doesn't function as a set of rules, it functions as a blank cheque to the Staff to do whatsoever they wish. If you trust that, fine, but there have been multiple accounts already of major divides inside of the Staff, caused by disagreeements on punishment etc. We need a united front against this sort of thing, and while it may not be common, and someone like you may not appreciate the necessity, the magnitude of the things covered inside of such rules needs to be large, or decisiveness falls apart and so too, shortly after, will the whole Wiki, if the issue is large enough. I'm sure I'm not the only one here not wanting that.