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Kavzor:
Good afternoon community members!

Why do we have rules? Ever since my first day of CIT, I have been reflecting on this as well as a player as a staff member, but the answer always seems to be somewhat out of reach. Some might say that rules are meant to put up borders, for how to act within the community, others might say it is meant for the staff to not get bored, some might even say that that they are in fact not rules, but merely guidelines.

I do not claim to have the perfect answer to this question, nor do I believe there is a simple one, but I know for a fact that rules give us a common ground to walk on, they help us to enforce integrity, they make you no better than me. Nevertheless, enforcing these rules take time and people who can bear this responsibility, however, staff differentiate in judgment, they have different moral codes they follow, some staff members are more lenient than others. That the staff members are different consequentially means that it becomes hard for you to feel equally treated when different staff members have different opinions. All this are supposedly resolved by transparency, you do not get punished just for fun. Before you jump into judging all the changes made or comment upon them, I ask of you to consider reflecting upon future and previous punishments you receive or received, to consider that even if different staff may have told you two or more different things they both followed their moral code which led to that punishment, and surely you can learn something out of it as many of us have on multiple occasions.


Now let's talk about the changes!

Basically, all the rules both in-game and on the forum have been reviewed and modified to make them easier to understand, less complicated and hopefully as a result, we will be seeing fewer arguments about whom interpret the rules correctly. The important part to understand is that no content has been removed, only moved. For example, you may currently lack the democratic rule, however, that does not mean it is non-existence, it will be moved into DS1 board which means that it applies under forum rule #2 now.

If you wish to comment on a rule, ask for a clarification or even suggest improvements then mention me within this topic and let me know what it is that you would like to have clarified or changed to make the rule(s) easier to understand.

Universe:
Forum rule #18 - Show content
Basically, It says that applications to groups cant take personal information from players, A player should not share any private information he doesn't accept to be released., Otherwise it clearly shows that he accepts the information he gave to be released to the whole community, If they still insist on this rule then groups might make a DISCLAIMER? saying that the information he/she wrote in the application will all be released in the whole community and everybody will be able to see it. - If there is any issue with what I just clarified, please give me a PM.

Kavzor:
Standardization of rules most likely requires a review as well, the two comments above are both useful for when it comes to that.

@Universe that is one of the issues we attempted to address, as you see by #6 it is now more directed towards being able to receive transparency.

Brian:
The protocol should be:

1. Use forum search engine for the keywords of your problem.
2. Ask in support board or support chat ingame.
3. PM staff.

The rule will stay as some players clearly PM staff with utterly useless stuff, and it happened to me as well: https://prnt.sc/kccq16 Clearly this is what should be warned (I just found out I haven't even warned him). Everybody should be free to PM staff BUT you must include all details of your problem, not just a "pls sir help me". However I received various complaints of players getting warned for PMing staff for serious issues. That is why I asked Kavzor to find a solution to the issue that doesn't annoy staff with crap but at the same time doesn't make players afraid to contact staff members for serious matters that aren't "How to take a job?".

Kavzor:

--- Quote from: ridz xd on 05 08, 2018, 07:36:25 am ---Well I have seen Staffs Muting/Warning for protesting against them or just pointing out their faults. Due to the "Strict Rules" They have got the authority to supress each and every voice against them. They warn/mute the protesters even if they are using correct board and an appropriate language.

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This should be taken to the injustice resolutions board.


--- Quote from: Brian on 05 08, 2018, 09:42:40 am ---That is why I asked Kavzor to find a solution to the issue that doesn't annoy staff with crap but at the same time doesn't make players afraid to contact staff members for serious matters that aren't "How to take a job?".

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At least now the rule properly includes a reference to injustice resolutions board, hopefully, this will resolve some of the more trivial unwanted PM warnings

--- Quote ---If you do not receive transparency then open an injustice resolution rather than demanding the staff to explain him or herself through forum PMs.
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