Announcement Regarding Rule 1.2

[Jihadjoe]

We have lost valuable members of the community as a result of these individuals. Long time veterans have gotten frustrated at seeing these tactics go unpunished, and have either quit, or started acting out their frustrations in game and on the forums. The Staff has no desire to see this pattern play out any longer. We value those who have spent years contributing to this server and we are not going to allow a few to poison the fun of the majority.

You may find that a great many of these individuals have little will to contribute. This is for many reasons... One is the reason you mentioned in your post, and the other is that those to whom this would be most applicable, have long since moved on with their gaming lives.

I will however suggest restraint. Not only the quote above is already abusable by the players you have described as baiters, but also it could lead to an overall feel of a sword dangling over everyone's heads. I would, for example, not want Disco to become a fascistic dictatorship, where might means right.

The question here is what one might regard as the more tyrannical behaviour:

- The rule of disruptive players being able to create an environment in which reasonable and cooperative players are unable to stand the culture created, while the accountable authority only enforces the letter of the law.

- The spirit of the law judgement of a more legitimate authority.

The first is nearly always awful (except in very small communities where there is already a universally agreed ethos and code of behaviour which extends beyond any written rulebook). The second is only awful if that more legitimate authority is incompetant, uncaring or downright intentionally nasty. Unfortunately there are a great many authorities in the world which fit into those catagories.

Think of it this way: we're all essentially invited guests at the host's playground. And if you're gonna start taking poops on the merry-go-round, then the host is within his right to kick you out of the playground.

Basically this. Although I would have phrased it rather differently.

The players are guests in the host's house. If the host asks the guest to take their shoes off at the door, the guests can either take their shoes off, or leave if they don't wish to remove their shoes. It's really not cool for the guest to throw their shoes at the host's face and call the host a fascist, before breaking all the stuff in the host's house.

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