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@faraday said in Privacy in gaming:

Unsubstantiated rumours that Bob is driving off a players, but the players in question can't be reached for comment? Come on, that's not a bannable offense, that's gossip.

Of course.

Accusations that Bob is harassing Suzy, but Suzy denies it? Really? You'd ban them for that?

Rhetorically, no. Because I think I was Suzy in this case, right? (I didn't have a problem with their behavior.)

Once I had a couple players come on record with specific complaints (about insensitive/inappropriate channel comments), the player received a stern warning to knock it off. To leave channels if they couldn't restrain themselves. When they didn't, they were banned. I personally don't think that should have been an instantly-bannable offense either, but I guess YMMV on that one.

Exactly. Right here is where we do not share the same opinion. And I'm just fine with that.

If folks feel that makes me a bad staffer, that's their prerogative. I did my best to be fair and even in hindsight I don't feel that I did anything wrong.

I don't think you're a bad staffer, and I don't think you did anything wrong. Let's just be clear about that. But I'll go back to one of my previous posts regarding how I simply do not see anything productive with stern warnings.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

I realize this puts me in a small minority of staffers, perhaps thankfully.

@BetterNow said in COVID-19 Assistance Thread:

In regards to legal advice, for those of us in "essential businesses", especially involving grocery stores (people who did not sign up to be emergency first responders), what recourse does someone have if they are forced to come in to work or otherwise risk job loss, despite the virus situation?

Unfortunately, it depends on your employer. Some will let people take leaves of absence without fear of job loss; others, not so much.

More than that is a matter of opinion only.

@Ghost said in Privacy in gaming:

1. IC Authority figures should be either staff PCs or played by staff-approved players to control how plot is driven, but then these PCs always have a crazy amount of plot armor.

If IC authority figures are either staff PCs or played by staff-approved players, then those staff or staff-approved players are responsible for the direction and activity of the sphere. Too often we find that staff or staff-approved players lose time or energy or guidance, and let a sphere languish and die off. This is a traditional method for MUSHes, in my opinion.

2. IC authority figures can be played within each faction, but only factions who support staff-driven plot direction get the most attention.

See above.

3. No one's in charge ICly, but staff plot will likely still determine pass/fail on plot-centric actions

It depends. My experience with this sort of atmosphere is that it breeds a lot of player activity until such point that staff either stop supporting certain directions or fail to do so. This can throw a game's vision out of whack, and few staff want to see a setting they created to go to pot.

@mietze said in Bad TV:

Including the faction leader who clearly maxed out his social stats for his sheet, but can only RP coming across as a creepy mess.

@surreality said in Punishments in MU*:

...maybe scale back on the enthusiasm just a smidge from that. Just a smidge.

Anyhow, the commiseration circle is just another form of gossip played by idle minds.

@Macha

Remind them that intentional torts are still available even where workers compensation exists.

@L-B-Heuschkel said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

I recognise your point; it's not invalid. Still, I maintain, change small things all you like, but be wary of making large changes to canon -- it will drive future players away.

I concur, but they may not be the players I want in the first place.

Vast deviations from canon are not only acceptable, but encouraged. To-wit: (1) Mr. Freeze's reincarnation under Dini and Timm; (2) the invention of Harley Quinn; (3) Gotham's Oswald Cobblepot; etc.

If you want canon, go read a comic.

@Macha

When employees are injured as a result of negligence in the workplace, they can make a claim for workers' compensation in jurisdictions with the same. As a result, employers are immune to a negligence claim arising from work conditions.

But if the employer intentionally subjects an employee to a dangerous work environment, an employee may file an intentional tort claim against the employer if they suffer injuries as a result of the known danger.

@insomniac7809 said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

ha ha ha it is to laugh

@Seamus

This all sounds like a cheap rip-off of Mage: The Ascension.

@Pandora

Disagreement does not necessarily connote an inability to work with staff.

It’s really a matter of time management. I don’t mind disagreement; I live in a world where disagreement is constant (I have children and a partner). But if I have to justify every decision I make to a player to their satisfaction, then I am wasting time that is better spent elsewhere.

Disagree all you want with me; that’s fine. Demand every waking minute of my time? Out.

@Aria said in COVID-19 Assistance Thread:

@insomniac7809 and I may or may not need some guidance in dealing with his employer. Anyone familiar with labor law in Pennsylvania or able to point us in the direction of resources?

Why don't you PM with some details? I may be able to help if it relates to federal law.

@Tinuviel

I edited it because I spelled "perspicacious" incorrectly.

@bear_necessities said in Landlord Bitching:

That guy rents an apartment building and he probably has loans that are owed to the bank. When he defaults on those loans, the Bank will take the property and all of those people who unified to not pay rent will be out of a home.

Going back to my comment, this landlord likely fucked up somewhere because I cannot imagine, out of 32 tenants, that not one of them thought about the possibility of eviction and debt in the future, which means that collectively they are trying to send a message to this guy.

Speaking of pieces of shit:

This guy is a landlord in my area. I'm part of an investors' group and every single one of them think that this guy is an asshole.

He claims he was hacked.

@Coin said in Punishments in MU*:

If you're making an exception to a rule, then it's an exception. If X gets to have a stat at 8 and no one else does, that's an exception. If it's because you trust them with it, then 1) what's so important about that ONE STAT that staff needs to TRUST THE PLAYER for them to be able to have it? and 2) why do other people get to buy it later on if they spend XP on it, if it's so important they couldn't be trusted with it at cgen?

On this issue, I concur. Excepting positions of power and boondoggles that arise therefrom, I believe that all PCs should be coming out of character generation with the same access to skills, traits, and the like, barring systems where traits are supposed to be somewhat unique, like a superhero game.

Upon request and reflection, I have elected to move the discussion related to the underpinnings of land ownership to the Politics Section.

I would welcome continued discussions there.

@Ghost said in Punishments in MU*:

And on your birthday? The sandbox.

When we do it the special way

@mietze said in Post-Covid 19 world:

But I actually do not think this is bad enough to force something like what had to be done post-Depression. People are not desperate enough.

They will be.

Few people are talking about the economic outlook after the pandemic is over, and for cause: no one really knows for sure because international economics look a lot different now than it did back when the Spanish flu, Asian flu, and Hong Kong flu hit.

I haven't crunched numbers yet, but I have the time to do it now, I suppose.

@Lotherio said in Punishments in MU*:

@Thenomain said in Punishments in MU*:

(For the audience: Faraday and I don't get each other about 95% of the time.)

Lies, that estimate is far too low.

Faraday is from Venus; Thenomain is from Columbus.

@Lisse24 said in Good TV:

In this week of quarantine viewing, I, too, went down the Letterkenny rabbit hole. It was everything you all promised me it would be.