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@templari said in Regarding administration on MSB:

Pointing out general spread insults is not helpful?

It's helpful if I can't see it. It's not helpful if I'm standing right there, watching what happened.

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

That doesn't follow from what you said, though. If you know someone is going to be leaving soon, and you need to replace them, it makes far more sense to have them train their replacement than taking anyone else away from their own duties.

I concur.

@misadventure said in Reporting Roadblocks: Denial, Fear, Shame, Guilt, Embarrassment, etc.:

I vote for @Ganymede clones. I trust her, she's intelligent, has a good memory, and is rewarding to RP with.

Thank you, but you don't want too many of me around. You'd have no one around during normal peak times.

@Ghost

@loke said in Reasons why you quit a game...:

Some staffers hold two conflicting beliefs, "This is my game,"/I get to do what I want when I want, and "I'm in it for the players." I think if you're in it for the players, you find a balance between taking care of yourself and serving your player base without sacrificing on fairness.

The two beliefs are not mutually exclusive, however; they should be integrated.

"This is my game. I get to do what I want when I want, and what I want is a game that other players can enjoy."

The first part is an acknowledgment of responsibility: it's your game, so you're responsible for what happens on it.

The second part is a statement of fact: you can do what you want, so you should act ethically or else you'll be viewed as a petty tyrant, no matter your policies.

The last part is the mission statement: it's only a game if there are other players involved that are enjoying it.

@Luna said:

Yes, the fewer rich could give a lot. But what if the many gave just a little?

The numbers suggest that the many have given so much that it hurts.

@tnp said in Staff and ethics:

We started out with 'don't be an asshole' as a tl;dr version of some basic policies that should be common sense. We added as needed (see above).

I like vague rules, as staff. It allows me to shoe-horn obvious things in.

"Don't be an asshole" is a fine rule for the situation. A player that engages their PC in sexual RP with another PC, but then turns it into a rape or sexual assault ICly, for whatever reason, is as much of an asshole as someone who engages in consensual sex in real life, and then claims it was sexual assault the next day. That's kind of what I'm seeing here.

I'd probably go with: "Don't run plots that involve or result in sexual assault or non-consensual sex." This might seem to cut out a few legitimate good-guy plots, like rescuing kids from predators. However, although child trafficking often involves sexual congress, but you can have a perfectly reasonable plot involving the rescue of children from a predator that has nothing to do with sex. See, e.g., B:TAS, S.1 Ep. 6, "The Underdwellers".

@Tyche said:

@Misadventure said:

Though determining a fair share is difficult.

It's easy. Everyone pays the same amount. Sounds fair to me.

The purpose of taxes is to pay for government programs. Those programs do not distribute benefits equally by purpose or design. Fair tax is only fair if you haven't an education or understanding of basic capitalist principles.

@the-tree-of-woe said in Questionably viable character types and tropes (tangent from staff ethics convo):

The Vivienne can also be difficult to pull off, because she's a sniffy manipulative bitch, which can be just the WORST without her being softened by a little humanity (like Vivienne was).

@SunnyJ is the only person I know who can pull this off believably.

I like the Met.

Avoid the traps, like the Empire State Building.

See musicals, especially the ones not touring, like Aladdin. If you can get into Hamilton, go for it, but you may be able to catch a touring show.

@gilette

I'm an otter.

Watch as people flock to my defense.

@Apu said:

I have considered making a new alt there. Someone fresh to get back into things as. I always regretted not getting/keeping things rolling as Yvette but by the time I left I was overwhelmed by RL depression and other things which was really not conducive to being able to think, let alone be creative.

Sorry to hear that, Apu. I'm also sorry to report that Oz is basically nutter-butters.

It's hyperbolic to say that I'm rolling shit out like crazy, but I am rolling shit out, and it appears to be getting some traction. Some people are pulling the threads together, and not liking the tapestry. That's kind of what I like to do, storyteller-wise.

But, yes, shit be going down. I'm rolling out the Hunter-angle shortly, so if any of you have Hunters you'd like to resurrect, now's the time.

@Ghost

You have to laugh at that guy, but appreciate his balls. He got the fuck beaten out of him by Browne, and half a dozen others that had to be held back.

@saosmash said in Regarding administration on MSB:

I thought in this case that the error was giving credence to a complaint without any reality behind it, thereby loaning it legitimacy it might not otherwise have.

This is a reasonable conclusion, but it is true that, in the past, predecessors of this forum have gone to games to "raid" them, so to speak. There was talk of this earlier, which was dissuaded by Arkandel. To deny the possibility of a WORA cabal lurking here to commit nefarious things, however remote, is to deny that past.

So, I think it was reasonable to say, as an official statement or otherwise, that the vast, vast majority of us, if not all, do not support this behavior. Its placement is questionable, but I understand and support the sentiment behind the decision to say something.

@VulgarKitten said:

Is Pinball still there?

Yes.