Official Faction Spring Cleaning

[Reverend Del]

I do it from time to time with those "feedback" threads anyway, must have been four or five of them by now. Though avoiding flame wars is quite tricky, putting "rules of engagement" would over complicate things I think, then again - who knows?

So, quite frankly, I'm now sure if this will work, I've seen both good and bad, both constructive criticism and plain old bashing flaming from such discussions. Community does too rare reach consensus on anything and even that has to be quite simple and straight-forward, whereas factions aren't simple and there many views possible, some being opposite to the others and negating each other in the end.

To be honest the Keepers and the Phantoms were one sticking point in this idea, too often I see arguments that point to either faction which is unwise to say the least, both those factions are difficult to quantify but there again you say yourself that you do this on a regular basis with the Keepers anyway.

Regarding the potential flame wars, it would be a matter of keeping an eye out and chucking water on them before they got too out of hand and expecting that people would be keeping to the spirit at hand, that of giving these factions a work out, not trying to get them broken up like an old barge. I would be most upset if someone tried to turn this into their own personal vendetta against any given faction/clan. That's not what this should be about.

Even were official staus on the line, it would be a case of Official until made otherwise an complete reversal of the current Faction Creation requests, credible arguments would ahve to be made for a afcation to be stripped of it's status. It should be hard work and the faction leader should be able to deal with any criticism, either with a polite rebuttal or an equally polite acquiessence. I would highly recommend people stay out of any faction cleaning thread that hey have strong feelings towards, even if that means handing over control of the thread to more level headed members of any given faction. Polite, constructive criticism is the only way to go with this, if criticism is required.

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Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.