Admin Notice: Factions

[Dusty Lens]

A person who maintains a faction tag is representing that faction, unless the presiding faction either makes steps to have that tag removed or the person in question pulls a stunt within a reasonable span of time of renaming which places an unfair burden on said presiding faction to identify and strip the holder.

That's really the only reasonable mechanism for denouncing persons randomly adopting tags against a faction's will. If a body adopts a faction's tag and it is tolerated there's no reason otherwise to suppose that they are not, in fact, a member of the faction. Unless someone can point to a rule which says otherwise there is no ruling demanding that a faction maintain a hard and fast roster or, really, place any burden on their members at all.

Afterall, should the members of a faction do something out of turn it damages the faction thereby creating an increasing likelyhood that the faction will be disbanded. Which makes it a sort of self maintaining system.

Of course the old CR demonstrated that members of and the faction itself can receive something on the order of a hundred billion sanctions before they're not disbanded, so I suppose that system isn't the most effective.

I think he's challenging it privately, not publicly. Can't blame him considering the attitude he receives from people, much (but not all) of it undeserved.

Tsk tsk.