Admin Feedback Thread (Archived)

[Alley]

But what happened to Lyth wasn't done within the rules and overall wasn't fair.

It wasn't within the rules. The heavy decision post stated it right away.
Here's the thing though: A few years ago it would have been perfectly within the rules.

The rules were amended several times largely because troublemakers and grey area abusers felt threatened by the old 1.0 and 0.0 rules and managed to make it sound like it was a serious threat to normal players whom became concerned.

In reality a normal player never had to fear these rules as they were not meant for them. All games have their own LOIC rule and finding it within the massive EULA can be really difficult, but it's there. Why is it there for something like World of Warcraft when 99.99% of the players will never break any rule of the game? Because of the 0.01% that will and can do it in so many ways you need a simple rule to catch them all and not leave any loophole.

Nowadays the rules are a cheese grinder without any grinder: if you want to make someone's game experience miserable and are clever enough to use proxy players/skypefriends/grey rules areas, you can do it without any possible consequence. Is that fair? It isn't and the catch all rule needs to be brought back to make these people stop thinking they're invincible and yelling "EVIDENCE NOWWWWWWWW" will get them out of any situation they were clever enough not to leave anything usable within the rules against them.

After several admins wasted hours trying to get Lyth to tone down the general skype crap and feuds causing an incredible mess (you know you're kinda doing something wrong when you're a daily topic of the admin chat) I really doubt he didn't see some kind of sanction or retaliation coming his way. He probably didn't expect it to be this harsh.

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Alley was right.