MrStonedOne wrote:Heres the thing. These "do this unless this except for this otherwise this" policies everybody bitches about?
Its called precedence, These policies got made in to such because people who got banned or people who didn't get their ban request approved asked for clear lines and rulings.
So what is it? What one do you fucking want?
If the rules are vague, people bitch about how admins have too much wiggle room, or that they couldn't know blah blah blah.
So we started to work on fixing that, hashing out the policies based on current trends at the time on how admins have ruled on those things.
and now what? That wasn't fucking good enough? Apparently giving the players what they wanted makes us fucking bay teir?
The problem isn't that there are too many policies, its that too many of the policies are arse backwards and retarded.
And do you remember what happened after we went from the simple five rules to the Legislation of TG-Station?
I remember getting in a big argument with Intigricy not one week after the new rules went live because they were arguing for a ban to remain in place which went against established precedent, and their reasoning was solely by wielding the new rules around like a big grotesque anime sword. They kept arguing with rule zero and rule one (which still remains one of the most ambiguous up to interpretation rules), whilst I was arguing that rule two still states that "shits gonna go bad for you, man up and deal with it" and that the established precedent was that what the accused did was not bannable.
And that was just the start of the slippery slope, I'm pretty sure the perversion of the new rules was what made TLE lock the old forum with no warning before closing it down and washing his hands of the community.
So the problems are that dumb rules get made and then admins blindly follow them and go "well its against the rules".
I mean for fuck sake, it was only the other month where Sticky banned someone even though they were hesitant about it but still did it anyway because "rules say ban, me ban! BAN!!"
We don't elect headmins to be mindless drones that parrot the written rules, we elect admins in the hope that they're smart enough to go "You know what... this old rule is dumb, I'm gonna ask people if maybe we should get rid of it".
And thats why people have been saying that Kor's done an infinitely more impressive job as an interim headmin in the past couple of weeks than the last three sets of headmins.
Hell I'd even say that things were better when appealing to a headmin consisted of PMing XSI and then hoping that he'd descend from Mount Olympus long enough to make a decree to us dirt eating mortals.
Atleast he practically never made bans himself, so there was a lot less "Well... you're banned by a headmin, hard luck kid - your only option is to appeal to the host"
