(05-25-2017, 11:17 AM)sindroms Wrote: If people would not specifically go out of their way to use loopholes in the rules, we might be able to keep them simple and not complicated. And it is not the new players who do this. The rules are complex because it is the vets who try to take advantage of them, only to hide behind the shield of ''it is not stated that you can't do X'' once they are called out for it, because they know that technically they cannot be punished without a warning for doing so. The rules and their dysfunction are a part of the community mindset and the target audience.
If there is an exploitable advantage in general people will always capitalize on it. I'm pretty sure the person who first wrote up this rule thought long and hard about developing and wording it in such a way that it couldn't be circumvented by technicalities. Not saying I use these tactics here either I'm just stating what I've observed others doing.
