I believe in freedom of expression. I really do. I hate to curtail anyone's efforts to express themselves.
I've been trying my best to be as lenient as possible with the things going on in this room, but it's getting to a point where I have to start *gasp* locking threads again. When I start getting PMs from other moderators about the low quality of my room, it's a bad thing.
So, as long as my tenure here lasts, here's a few simple guidlines that we can hopefully try to follow:
1) The room name is "Forum Games".
This means that for your thread to be applicable to this room, it must be a game. It must also be played on a forum.
2) Any game dealing with Reputation (whether it be a "Rep the Person Above You" style game, or with Reputation as a prize for achieving something) will be BALEETED.
Reputation is designed to be an accurate indicator of how valuable someone is to the forums as a whole. Yes, it doesn't always (or often) work out that way, but blatantly abusing it just throws the system out of wack even more.
3) Watch your signature.
Preferably, refrain from posting it at all. I understand that mistakes happen, but if it's possible, please edit it out of your post, ESPECIALLY if your signature takes more room on the screen than your post content does. (And for those games with no editing allowed, mistakes DO happen. Just try and avoid them.)
4) Any "Race to X Number of Posts" games will bestrictly monitored. destroyed on sight.
Personally, I don't like the concept. It often degenerates into pure spam and posting purely for postcount. In order for one of these threads to remain unBALEETED, it should be unspammy, have an actual topic of discussion, and generally not make me tired of seeing it every day.
Due to the amount of spam and other unacceptable behavior, I am putting the kibosh on these types of games permanently. Anyone posting this type of game will be warned. I would ask anyone who sees this type of game posted to please Report the game to us. Thanks.
Carry on. ~Bahamut
Blargh! Hijacked!
5) Purposefully ruining/blatantly cheating in a Mafia/Adventure game is worth infractions
Seriously guys, don't be a ****. Destroying someone else fun is against the entire spirit of Forum Games. Doing the above is worth a three point infraction, and depending on how severe it is, perhaps more. Editing in those games can, depending on the circumstances, be worth infractions. This rule is not limited to those games.
If you think someone is cheating, send a Pm to either me, Baha, or Drab.
~Eeyore
6) Have fun.
Anyone who does not follow this rule will be instantly banned.
I'm leaving this thread open for now, so I can get some feedback. Sorry if it seems like I'm getting overbearing all of a sudden, but the 'hands-off' approach wasn't working too well. Let's all work together to make this room the best room of all... especially with the yearly room contest coming up soon!
-Drab
I've been trying my best to be as lenient as possible with the things going on in this room, but it's getting to a point where I have to start *gasp* locking threads again. When I start getting PMs from other moderators about the low quality of my room, it's a bad thing.
So, as long as my tenure here lasts, here's a few simple guidlines that we can hopefully try to follow:
1) The room name is "Forum Games".
This means that for your thread to be applicable to this room, it must be a game. It must also be played on a forum.
2) Any game dealing with Reputation (whether it be a "Rep the Person Above You" style game, or with Reputation as a prize for achieving something) will be BALEETED.
Reputation is designed to be an accurate indicator of how valuable someone is to the forums as a whole. Yes, it doesn't always (or often) work out that way, but blatantly abusing it just throws the system out of wack even more.
3) Watch your signature.
Preferably, refrain from posting it at all. I understand that mistakes happen, but if it's possible, please edit it out of your post, ESPECIALLY if your signature takes more room on the screen than your post content does. (And for those games with no editing allowed, mistakes DO happen. Just try and avoid them.)
4) Any "Race to X Number of Posts" games will be
Personally, I don't like the concept. It often degenerates into pure spam and posting purely for postcount. In order for one of these threads to remain unBALEETED, it should be unspammy, have an actual topic of discussion, and generally not make me tired of seeing it every day.
Due to the amount of spam and other unacceptable behavior, I am putting the kibosh on these types of games permanently. Anyone posting this type of game will be warned. I would ask anyone who sees this type of game posted to please Report the game to us. Thanks.
Carry on. ~Bahamut
Blargh! Hijacked!
5) Purposefully ruining/blatantly cheating in a Mafia/Adventure game is worth infractions
Seriously guys, don't be a ****. Destroying someone else fun is against the entire spirit of Forum Games. Doing the above is worth a three point infraction, and depending on how severe it is, perhaps more. Editing in those games can, depending on the circumstances, be worth infractions. This rule is not limited to those games.
If you think someone is cheating, send a Pm to either me, Baha, or Drab.
~Eeyore
6) Have fun.
Anyone who does not follow this rule will be instantly banned.
I'm leaving this thread open for now, so I can get some feedback. Sorry if it seems like I'm getting overbearing all of a sudden, but the 'hands-off' approach wasn't working too well. Let's all work together to make this room the best room of all... especially with the yearly room contest coming up soon!
-Drab