(07-22-2021, 06:51 PM)Kanzler Niemann Wrote: Reading this sanction you have kinda introduced a new rule under the table. While it is common sense that farming activity for your faction through afking should be punished this still leaves a sour taste. A proper introduction of an AFK penalty should be posted by the Staff with all possible consequences covered. However, this new "rule" also opens the gates for massive griefing that can harm factions in suffering from failing quarterly checks without actually breaking the rules.
This really isn't a surprise in any way and as you say it is common sense. We don't really need a rule for each possible stupid thing people may do and we certainly don't need to go back to the days when it would take an hour to read the rules. There are many ways for admins to check if you're afking or not so a malicious report would net you some serious trouble.
"Farming activity by idling AFK and/or off plane will be punished by removing X amount of activity form the tracker."
This simple sentence could easily be added to the official faction rules, which only official faction members need to know and read,.
It's actually very possible and very easy to write down all the unwritten rules and rule clarifications, and still use about 30% less words than the current version of the rules, simply by actually making an effort to be concise, well organized, and suitable for ingame reading: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...45&page=12
But instead of making the minimal effort of actually writing rules down properly, the admins threaten a ridiculously harsh punishment, and announce a new draconian policy that goes for every OFL in an individual sanction thread for one guy, adding to the "green texts" and "rule clarifications" scattered across dozens of threads/posts all over the forum, which almost nobody will ever look at.
And then, we are asked to just "trust in the admins" on this.
You know... the same admins who have been unable to snap out of what is described above for years for "reasons".
The same admins and mods who routinely post deceptively edited "trial by discord" logs and screenshots on public disco discord together with their friends, and then (repeatedly) censor and ban people who post the complete logs.
I know there will be the same sycophants who will now post "look karlotta just wants to be negative nobody pay attention to the actual substance of what is being said. Oh guys... do you think... ha ha... karlotta thinks its a CONSPIRCY???" below. No, I don't think its a conspiracy, I think its just more of the mind boggling incompetence that makes you think both "typical for disco" and "what the hell" at the same time.
Is it even worth asking how you actually intend to go through with this, or if its just and empty threat that may or may not ever be applied?
Are OFLs supposed to attach a lie detector and take the RL address of every new member, to make sure nobody slips in and screws over the entire faction?
Oh right... "the wise and just admins will be very wise and very just as they always are, don't worry, and don't you dare talk about their track record".
