Hi, I assure you that this is not an angry post. I am making this with all sincerity and good intentions, and this is a true suggestion to improve all future games.
The recent "Whose mafia is it anyway" game had an unfortunate ending to D2, with me telling off a player who (from my perspective) broke the rules to post a large, multi-paragraph, and game-affecting (in my eyes) post after his own flip and during N2.
I got modkilled for that, and sadly, it was the right call. My mistake led to a true shift in the game state, and it needed to be punished.
However, what wasn't known to me was that his post-flip large post was approved by the mods in the first place. He reached out to them and asked. If I had known that he hadn't broken the rules to make his post, I would have held my tongue and saved my sentiments for post game.
Did the mods make a mistake here? Sure. Do I hold it against them for future games, despite my real and current anger? Of course not, they're only human. Did I still need to be modkilled or punished? Well yeah, I broke the rules and heavily affected the game state through my action.
But this situation points out a large flaw in our rules: we have no codified, agreed-upon protocol for "bah!" post-death posts. Heck, "whose mafia" doesn't even have a rule in the OP for them, and I just checked again. In fact, it has a rule clearly saying not to post after death despite the "bah!" tradition.
With this tradition being unclear, this kind of situation is bound to happen again. Mods will one day do something that breaks the tradition, someone will react wrongly due to the tradition break accidentally not being announced, and the scenario will repeat. So I propose that we create a new rule to codify "bah!" posts.
It could be something simple like: "Only post 20 words max, and only after the next Day phase starts. You are also not allowed to post game-relevant info or reads, per mod discretion."
Anything, really. It'd be a simple way to keep an unfortunate situation from happening again in the future.
I look forward to hearing what you all think and taking part in a discussion on this matter. I'd also like to ask that the situation from "Whose mafia" isn't brought up, due to the game still being ongoing.
The recent "Whose mafia is it anyway" game had an unfortunate ending to D2, with me telling off a player who (from my perspective) broke the rules to post a large, multi-paragraph, and game-affecting (in my eyes) post after his own flip and during N2.
I got modkilled for that, and sadly, it was the right call. My mistake led to a true shift in the game state, and it needed to be punished.
However, what wasn't known to me was that his post-flip large post was approved by the mods in the first place. He reached out to them and asked. If I had known that he hadn't broken the rules to make his post, I would have held my tongue and saved my sentiments for post game.
Did the mods make a mistake here? Sure. Do I hold it against them for future games, despite my real and current anger? Of course not, they're only human. Did I still need to be modkilled or punished? Well yeah, I broke the rules and heavily affected the game state through my action.
But this situation points out a large flaw in our rules: we have no codified, agreed-upon protocol for "bah!" post-death posts. Heck, "whose mafia" doesn't even have a rule in the OP for them, and I just checked again. In fact, it has a rule clearly saying not to post after death despite the "bah!" tradition.
With this tradition being unclear, this kind of situation is bound to happen again. Mods will one day do something that breaks the tradition, someone will react wrongly due to the tradition break accidentally not being announced, and the scenario will repeat. So I propose that we create a new rule to codify "bah!" posts.
It could be something simple like: "Only post 20 words max, and only after the next Day phase starts. You are also not allowed to post game-relevant info or reads, per mod discretion."
Anything, really. It'd be a simple way to keep an unfortunate situation from happening again in the future.
I look forward to hearing what you all think and taking part in a discussion on this matter. I'd also like to ask that the situation from "Whose mafia" isn't brought up, due to the game still being ongoing.
