Romance and Goonstation RP

[jan.antilles]

I have been thinking, and honestly the main part of this whole thing that has got me so conflicted is the fact that a friend who never did a single thing out of line in my book, and never disrupted a single moment of the game that i was *aware* of, was likely, and indirectly, the catalyst that lead to the admins discussing this behind closed doors and then putting out a clarification.

Hey Kot, I just wanted to respond and reassure you about a few things: your "that I was aware of" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting. As Flaborized said in her post: "Again, you're genuinely not going to cross up against accidentally this if you're reasonable, and the bans I've seen are usually pretty egregious or the person has been warned several times before for the exact same behavior. "

Your friend knows exactly why they are banned. I will not be discussing the details because the Admin Guidelines discourage me from doing that, but I feel very confident telling you that if you are confused about how on earth they could have fallen afoul of what's written in this post, it's because of things they aren't telling you.

Zamu's testimony (and the fact she left the team at all) just has red flags a-wavin' and klaxons going off in my head. 

To offer an additional clarification: Zamu "left the team" because she was in the middle of being forcibly removed from it, for a long history of both violating guidelines regarding player trust and admin trust, and for verbally abusing people behind closed doors on the admin team to the point where numerous people left or stopped contributing to the project, including myself. If you are concerned about the atmosphere on the admin team, I'm happy to reassure you that it's actually better now than it has been in a long time.

Obviously this announcement i agree has nothing directly to do with that incident

Regarding the post itself: this is a clarification of our existing policy and the way we've been enforcing it. Nothing in this post is new. In a way it IS directly related to the incident, but not because of any changes as a result of it. My goal in making this was to offer clarification to any players who make incorrect assumptions based on the issue, because they didn't see anything happen that they think is against the rules, and worry they're going to get banned for things that are actually totally fine. I want to reassure them that these guidelines are what the entire team relies on, and that things like "announcing a wedding and pinging lots of people for it" genuinely had nothing to do with any administrative actions that were taken.