Using real encryption while forumlancing.

[Sally]

A while ago, even before I got banned, I asked the staff what would they think about someone using real encryption inRP to hide secrets from a specific public while only the intended recipients (the staff among them if they want to ensure rules are enforced) would be allowed to read its contents.

The reason I asked was probably obvious to most of you but I'll explain why this would require getting their blessing and why I personally think it'd be fine.

With the current state of affairs roleplaying off-site or in secret is fine, many people roleplays through in-game sessions sitting 100 clicks from the nearest solar and so long it's real roleplay you can act on it, for example two characters discussing a bounty in-game, as long as such bounty terms are within the scope of ID rules it would still be allowed. Other people does the same but entirely off-site on a secret Discord chat, and the same applies, and you can even hide that from the staff.

The problem with these two approaches is that they do not allow character or roleplay development, unless you make a forum post about it, that's the kind of thing I was looking to solve; since all of this is allowed anyway why not give a middle ground? Post roleplay with real encryption and you could even keep special roleplay secret from the broader community, while the staff gets a decryption key so they can read whatever they want to either enforce rules or process player requests, the main issue however is the english-only rule, encrypting a forum post essentially renders it unreadable because that's the whole point, so doing this technically breaks that rule, unless the staff is willing to grant an exception on this.


On a scale from 1 to 10 how much do you hate this idea?

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"I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute." - RMS