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You can always send a mail to [email protected] if you are unhappy with a decision.

You can always send a mail to [email protected] if you are unhappy with a decision.

I'm 100% certain Lemonshine is already aware of that.

You can always send a mail to [email protected] if you are unhappy with a decision.

I'm 100% certain Lemonshine is already aware of that.

Ok, so what's the problem?

The appeals process, oh yes. We should be confident in an appeals process conducted by the same group whose decision we would be appealing. Oh, yes.

Gentlemen, it would be so much better if the original process would have been unbiased and professional.

Anyway, even with GMs heavily participating heavily in this thread and, no doubt, in the poll, they are in a 2:1 minority, therefore the proposal has merit and, hopefully, will be considered.

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In my case, I didn't even vote.

Since there is 28 GMs, minus me, it's 27. Current voting are 17 to 10. Could the 17 GMs who voted to say they can be unfair step up and we will remove them from the staff. Thank you.

What to do? I haven't voted either but I've posted in this thread so I'm clearly unfair. I think you'll need to remove me just to be safe, as long as we can operate with 9 GMs instead of 10.

What to do?

More like: who to believe?

I think you'll need to remove me just to be safe, as long as we can operate with 9 GMs instead of 10.

Amazing, and here I thought pointless posts were supposed to be against the rules of conduct! I also thought GMs should indeed be leading by example and, if we agree with Perpete, we should trust you all to uphold the rules with integrity!

The specific subsection you're probably referring to is:
"- Useless or irritating posts. This includes single syllable answers, trolling(*) and spamming."

I think levity is not useless. You may disagree, perhaps. I'm not in favor of overmoderating, only partially because of the extra work it might create for me. People should be encouraged to enjoy the forums, not run every post through some content analysis algorithm to see if it contributes some meaningful purpose to the game.

I suppose we could also be harsher on "irritating" or "trolling" posts. But it's also a judgment call. In nearly every case, there is very wide latitude given. There are certain places where the latitude does not extend - the bugs forum, transfer ad threads, election speech threads, etc., where the rules are specifically narrower and explicitly pointed out as being so. Threads that are being derailed far from the original intent and devolve into back and forth arguments generally have some moderation applied to try to nudge things back to the topic (and often, with an invitation to take the other topic to a more appropriate thread).

Now that you've had your fun of pointing out 'oh, my goodness, GM-hrudey dared to make a joke!', consider for a moment if you truly would prefer a scenario where every single non-topical post was deleted, and whether that would be best moved out of a thread that is essentially a complaint about GM action in the first place.