Invitational abuse

[Chris Babcock]

This thing where you change the deadline in your invitational game to mess with people needs to stop. It's not an issue I want the mods spending much time on, but it's still important and I would like to empower the community to handle it.

First, some guidelines. Don't shorten deadlines. If players are online and want to commit, the game can go faster - but don't force it. People are entitled to the time between deadlines. If harassment about committing continues, we will address it in code. If you must make deadlines longer, give a couple turns warning and make the new deadline at least 12 hours.

Second, keep track of who you accept invitations from. If someone plays mind games with the deadline or lets players be jerks in conference w/o calling them out, don't join their games again unless they agree to do better. If they say they won't do it again and then do... post their email address here in this thread in "user at gmail dot com" form. Don't engage in a back and forth on this forum. Nobody will want to play w/either of you.

Understand that invitational games don't affect server stats. If someone doesn't want you to commit, spite them or oblige them at your pleasure.

We're here to play, have fun, and perhaps make friends. Let's focus on that and move on where that isn't going to happen.

Chris
(The one who signs the checks.)

[uriah...@gmail.com]

What happens if someone posts an email here that has not done anything? Will you be able to tell that they did nothing?

[Chris Babcock]

Yes. An abusive deadline change is obvious in the database, which will in turn make it possible to find in the log. If someone is falsely accused, they should contact the moderator address, droidi...@oort.se. Once a mod establishes the claim is false, we'll refute it publicly so you don't have to.

Use care posting invitation codes for other people. You're vouching for that game.

We currently have a limited number of moderator hours. Unless the community can somehow afford to replace my disability check, I'm limited to 45 hours per month of administrative duties and I can provide no more than half of all administrative hours across all services offered by ASCII King Games. Also, most of the moderation team would rather be volunteering development hours than administration hours and I think the players would prefer that too.

Good hunting,
Chris Babcock
https://patreon.com/swift2plunder

On Mar 5, 2016 3:50 PM, <uriah...@gmail.com> wrote:

What happens if someone posts an email here that has not done anything? Will you be able to tell that they did nothing?

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superb...@gmail.com

He made a 12 hour game then he switched it to 10 min while others and me were sleeping then he switched it back. It was in a span of an hour. Never told us that it was going to be 10 min the first phase. Now its taking up space since im not going to play a game that is not going to be fun.

[superb...@gmail.com]

Dude i told u i didnt know that was a rule just checked the thing here so now i know

[Chris Babcock]

It was a jerk move. You shouldn't need a rule a rule to tell you that
the oh so clever thing you thought of in the middle of the night isn't
something that you should actually *do*. The behavior and the
background is documented. I won't ban you unless you turn this into
argument. IDGAF about the circumstances. Ppl can make up their own
minds whether to join a game run by someone who would do that.

General guideline about rules... I hate them. People should think
about their actions and their words ahead of time so that they don't
stink up the community like a bloated carcass. If you need a parent
substitute to anticipate all the clever abuses imaginable and write
them down in a convenient spot for you to ignore then I don't want you
around. I don't need a rule book to argue from. If you aren't smart
enough to follow "Don't cheat," and "Don't be an ass," there's the
door. It's just as easy to stay on this side as the other, but please
don't make that decision fall on my shoulders.

Chris

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 4:05 PM, <superb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dude i told u i didnt know that was a rule just checked the thing here so now i know
>

[superb...@gmail.com]

now i acknowledge what i did and wont do it again thx for the explanation btw