Sanction Reviews

[Valinde]

I must say the whole "sanction notices" part of the forums feels really odd to me. While it is stated what game rule has been broken by the player, there's no mention of evidence, and we don't know how the player's guiltiness was decided. In such a case, you cannot possibly make such calls and expect people from various opinions to agree with them wholeheartedly.

So... why make them public in the first place ? If anyone can be reported and sanctioned, well, okay, that's how it goes. But since the admins, the reporter and the reported are pretty much the only ones concerned, along with maybe some witnesses, why allow other people to see what sanction has been taken ? If the sanction is effective enough, it'll be the end of it, and it won't affect other people.

However, reputation does matter a lot to many people there, especially since it's a RP community, and a rather small one at that. If you strip someone of their guns and money, you apply a written rule, wich is fine, but in doing so it also reflects on how other people will see them, and I don't think that should be part of the sanction. Besides, forum laws can be abused, and I don't believe simply warning people not to post when they shouldn't is gonna work, which could lead to some unwanted bad-mouthing.

It's just how I feel about it. Since so much is decided through PMS and admins, there's no point in showing us the end result, especially because there's no transparency, no way of telling what actually happened except through the comments of some disgruntled/pleading forumers.

I don't care that much about the rules and sanction system, but this publicity just feels out of place and unfair.

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I think I took a wrong turn at Palshife.