' Wrote:Incorrect. Please don't twist the words of others and then get into a tizzy about it. There was no implication, there was an outright statement that looking for friends to play with -not playing with friends as you said- is a sanctionable offense.
In fact, let's break it down.
You see the operative term, looking. I see it as well. Now, assuming that Hexx is operating under standard conventions of the English language, and that you and I both understand and agree upon these standard conventions of the English language, his "hysterical, over the top, sensationalist*, wrong" and "not funny," post clearly has an entirely different meaning from the one you chose to prosecute.
It does not imply anything about the administration sanctioning people for playing with their friends; it takes a different perspective on the obvious topic at hand, that the Administration has a 3 year rule in place banning unofficial factions from recruiting -that is, the process of attracting, screening, and selecting qualified people for a job- which Hexx disagrees with.
The different perspective cast by Hexx's post is that unofficial factions recruiting is, in essence, equivalent people looking for friends to play with who share or would like to share a similar RP vision and/or style. In short, this view is that unofficials recruiting is the act of "looking for some friends to play with," mentioned in Hexx's post.
Now that we have all of the components of the post, let's put it into syllogism form, so that nothing can be misinterpreted so that no flamefests ensue, because I respect you and the dignity of this discussion.
Premise 1: Discovery Freelancer has a 3-year old policy which bans Unofficial Factions from recruiting, an act which is considered to be a sanctionable offense.
Premise 2: Unofficial factions recruiting is an act equivalent to the act of "looking for some friends to play with."
Conclusion: Discovery Freelancer is a place "Where looking for some friends to play with is a sanctionable offense."
Under this train of thought, while the rule is in place and you do indeed enforce the rules, the rule is argued to be preposterous because of the stated implication of the rule, that looking for friends to play with -not playing with friends- is a sanctionable offense.
Now, can we please discuss this with a modicum of civility? Or may be we ought to take a break from this discussion, because both sides of this discussion have thrown some pretty heavily loaded words which I'm certain will be regretted in time, no?
Thank you, and god bless.
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Having had my own recruitment thread closed when I was running an unoffical faction, I can tell you that it didn't feel like I had been sanctioned in the sense with which we use the word "sanction" here. Here, sanction means a punishment.
We don't sanction people for trying to recruit on the forums. "Sanctionable offense " is hysterical, and implies that we punish people. The ban on people recruiting on the forums is a posting guideline, one which is being reviewed. Reviewing things would be a hell of a lot easier if we didn't have people misrepresenting how the community and running of the server functions. His post misrepresents it.
If all he wanted to say required you to interpret stuff for him maybe you could do that for all his posts when his ability to cast a different perspective doesn't run beyond one-liners designed to troll what he clearly regards as an administration that manage the server in a manner with which he regards as callous, punitive and authoritarian.
The point is taken though. I think what he meant was that recruitment by all groups here is to be encouraged because we are all here to have fun and playing co-operatively is one way for people to have (more) fun. See, that wasn't hard was it? No snide sarcasm; no derogatory remark aimed at portraying the community as disciplinarian. Tone changes everything.
