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ObviousOne
Profile Joined April 2012
United States3704 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-15 14:01:25
January 06 2014 06:34 GMT
#1
Any time a discussion in the ban list thread regarding a ban takes a turn for the verbose, please bring the discussion here.

Table of contents

  • [Jan 06 2014] - Discussion breaks out of ban list here. - Discussion continues here. - Continuation of the discussion regarding how bans are compounded and the perception of unfairness biased in favor of players who have been around longer.
  • [Jan 09 2014] - Comes from here - Transitions from ban list thread here - Continues in this thread here - Regarding hosts being able to ban based on player effort and the ability for hosts to specify as such in their OP.
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Blazinghand *
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States25551 Posts
January 06 2014 06:35 GMT
#2
I've given preferential treatment before, and I think it's a good thing. Let me explain.

Once, not too long ago, I was hosting a game. A player stopped posting for about 24 hours (I required a post every 48 in this game), so I PMed him asking what's up and reminding him to post. He replied that his sister had a medical emergency and he wasn't really able to play any more. He asked if he could be replaced. Either it was past the D3 replacement deadline, or we were out of replacements. I modkilled him for inactivity-- he was a VT. There was no way he would contribute or vote for the rest of the game.

I did not request a ban for him. I knew him from previous games and some other interactions, and it's not like he CHOSE for his sister to be hospitalized, or he signed up for a game knowing she would get injured beforehand. I deliberately gave him preferential treatment based entirely on what I knew about him as a person and the fact that in my personal, expert opinion as a host, the ban would serve no purpose.

I've done this kind of thing before, and I'll do it again in the same circumstance. In my opinion, it's the right thing to do. If the rules are changed so that all modkills must result in some kind of punishment, I'll only ask for warnings instead of bans for what I think are reasonable reasons for inactivity and/or quitting. I'll decide what's reasonable in my own games.

I think that "preferential treatment" is "host discretion" and I think that being able to call things on a case-by-case basis (as a supplement to using our rule-based system) is righteous and just.
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ObviousOne
Profile Joined April 2012
United States3704 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-06 06:42:55
January 06 2014 06:42 GMT
#3
I'd like to hear what is being perceived as preferential treatment that isn't more closely aligned with BH's anecdote above. I think BH was perfectly rational and sensible in his reaction to that specific circumstance in his own game.

Ultimately ban REQUESTS are up to the hosts. There may be extenuating circumstances where a player will seek a ban against another player but those matters don't seem to be particularly frequent and can be more appropriately and privately addressed with the hosts as an intermediary, or if it comes to it discussing directly with GMarshal or his appointed representative.
Fear is the only darkness. ~Destiny Fan Club operator~
AxleGreaser
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1154 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-06 10:03:15
January 06 2014 06:46 GMT
#4
On January 06 2014 15:34 ObviousOne wrote:
The purpose of this thread is to stop derailing the actual ban thread. Continue your discussion here and stop shitting up the actual ban list thread.


One axle greaser point. OO++.
I have previously/recently not posted anything in the ban list thread no matter what I thought, as when I read it back before pressing post and I asked myself this question.

This is the ban list thread.
Is this post about a game I hosted or played and the ban of player that is under discussion?
On those previous occasions as neither what I was saying nor the post I was replying to appeared to be part of the banlist thread topic I didn't post it.

I got weak.

On January 06 2014 05:37 Corazon wrote:
But this sub-forum isn't moderated by TL rules. It's moderated in-house. So the commandments aren't really valid here. If they were, then we would have to ban a lot more people that we do.


I don't know about that. + Show Spoiler +
The adversarial combative nature of playing game means some aspects of the rules, are different, but that is due tot he topic of the thread (being a competitive game). The our house rule, TBMK stands and for good reason. Whether or not any people who benefit from it abuse the privilege, and whether they then actually get shorter shrift when it comes to bans... is at best a personal estimate. I know any person that plays like trooper twice then goes splat in the third game, is more likely to be assumed to have had RL issues, in my games. Life >>>everywhere<<< has swings and merry go rounds.


When on any well moderated forum someone starts a thread, the thread has a topic, OT stuff is binned and repeated offenders sin binned.
He who starts the thread in some sense owns the thread.

Game threads are that way too.
When I host game, there will be a sense in which I own the thread, and in that thread it will be my house. There are no simple rules for personal conduct especially in a confrontational emotional adversarial game such as mafia. The reason I dont want general TL mods to make decisions in these threads is it requires way too much context to see what is out of line. For the same reason any possible set of explicit simple do this you get that punishment rules is unworkable.

Considering why it is an absolute requirement that people such as Geript cant have some set of rules where they know all there is to know about why people were and were not banned. It may simply be none of their damn business. Even knowing that there is or is not some other RL reason that explains it is none of Other peoples damn business. I have in my RL been in positions of authority over other people. Lots of things turn out to be nobody elses business.

I am not, but if I was dying of cancer and didn't want people _here_ to know (so I could have one set of normal social interactions), and quit out of a game because of chemo... no one except GM would know. Not event the host, whose game I quit out of might know they'd just get GMs word. 'yep that one is sorted'. That probably wont come up, which is why I chose it, basically stuff happens people I trust fix them, I am 'blissfully' happy.

I like being blissfully ignorant of anything I don't need to know.

I am sorry but I just don't know what sort of fanciful rules bound world some people want to live in. Read my posting history I love me some rules, I have indicated that I think players ought pay more attention to them than they, seemed at that time, to me, to. Sticking the rule deciders in straight jacket however is an entirely daft rule. Rules are like electric fences player shouldn't go near the edges, GM ought be bored shitless.

sigh

TLDR?
On January 06 2014 15:30 Oatsmaster wrote:
.....
Nope. Just dont break the rules and you are fine.

If you accidentally do... suck it up princess?
Sorted?
Axle(OnlySomeTheoriesToAbsurdToBeConsidered)Greaser
raynpelikoneet
Profile Joined April 2007
Finland43268 Posts
January 06 2014 06:51 GMT
#5
Blazinghand, the scenario you pointed out in your post is not a problem and everyone understands that. The problem is when player A and player B ragequit a game in a similar manner, and only one of the players gets a ban and the other one does not, even from a same host...

That, i think, actually is a problem and i don't see how someone having played 3 games or 100 games on this forum or being a fried of someone has anything to do with how hosts should treat equal rule violations. If you break a rule you get a punishment, why do different people get different pushishment for breaking the same rule in a similar manner?
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AxleGreaser
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1154 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-06 06:57:36
January 06 2014 06:56 GMT
#6
On January 06 2014 15:51 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Blazinghand, the scenario you pointed out in your post is not a problem and everyone understands that. The problem is when player A and player B ragequit a game in a similar manner, and only one of the players gets a ban and the other one does not, even from a same host...

That, i think, actually is a problem and i don't see how someone having played 3 games or 100 games on this forum or being a fried of someone has anything to do with how hosts should treat equal rule violations. If you break a rule you get a punishment, why do different people get different pushishment for breaking the same rule in a similar manner?


Question?

Do you know why someone rage quit?
Could there be any other contributing factors you dont know about? (I got few potential candidates)

Is it always any of your damn business to know why or even that there was why?
Axle(OnlySomeTheoriesToAbsurdToBeConsidered)Greaser
ObviousOne
Profile Joined April 2012
United States3704 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-06 06:57:20
January 06 2014 06:56 GMT
#7
On January 06 2014 15:51 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Blazinghand, the scenario you pointed out in your post is not a problem and everyone understands that. The problem is when player A and player B ragequit a game in a similar manner, and only one of the players gets a ban and the other one does not, even from a same host...

That, i think, actually is a problem and i don't see how someone having played 3 games or 100 games on this forum or being a fried of someone has anything to do with how hosts should treat equal rule violations. If you break a rule you get a punishment, why do different people get different pushishment for breaking the same rule in a similar manner?

On December 24 2013 03:33 WaveofShadow wrote:
Alright so now that PYP: LoL is finally over, it's ban time.

Bans for Kurumi, OdinofPergo, geript, nyxnyxnyx, Storrzerg, Kenpachi, Bill Murray, gtrsrs, Onegu, and Roffles.

Geript, Odin, and Kurumi are the ragequitters (the rest are inactivity modkills) I believe so I'm wondering if they need harsher bans or not (or whether or not that's up to me). I'm not sure that all of the inactivity modkills should be the same punishment as the ragequitters.

Not sure if any warnings beside all this needs to go out---BC and marv are excused from bans due to extenuating circumstances.

This game has been going on for a long time so I've messed something up here or people feel the need to appeal, by all means let me know.

Is this post by WoS the source of this discussion? I'm trying to get things sorted out here because I feel we'll soon be running in circles (which might end the discussion but leave things unresolved and that's bad juju). Let's get our narrative clearly defined instead of using pronouns and vague examples so we can have a sensible discussion.

Edit: I mean basically I have no idea what the root cause of this discussion is because the ban list thread is so shitted up I don't even think it's readable.
Fear is the only darkness. ~Destiny Fan Club operator~
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
January 06 2014 06:57 GMT
#8
On January 06 2014 15:51 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Blazinghand, the scenario you pointed out in your post is not a problem and everyone understands that. The problem is when player A and player B ragequit a game in a similar manner, and only one of the players gets a ban and the other one does not, even from a same host...

That, i think, actually is a problem and i don't see how someone having played 3 games or 100 games on this forum or being a fried of someone has anything to do with how hosts should treat equal rule violations. If you break a rule you get a punishment, why do different people get different pushishment for breaking the same rule in a similar manner?


Can you point out where this happened?

Geript was complaining about me also quitting TL noir. But the circumstances were still different.

I asked for a replacement in pms on day one. And MZ agreed to replace me.

Geript rage quit by telling the host to fuck off in order to force a modkill and was generally FAR more disruptive to the game than I was in his rage quit.

Not the same situation. In fact most situations are not going to be the same which is why there is host discretion in the first place.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
raynpelikoneet
Profile Joined April 2007
Finland43268 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-06 07:00:21
January 06 2014 06:59 GMT
#9
Okay why the fuck do i even try.. Whatever.

EDIT: It's not even the point if it has happened or not (and i know it has happened). The point is that's what the discussion was in the ban thread. I don't agree with it.
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ObviousOne
Profile Joined April 2012
United States3704 Posts
January 06 2014 07:01 GMT
#10
Are you saying you don't agree there should be preferential treatment but do agree there should be extenuating circumstances?
Fear is the only darkness. ~Destiny Fan Club operator~
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
January 06 2014 07:02 GMT
#11
On January 06 2014 15:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Okay why the fuck do i even try.. Whatever.

EDIT: It's not even the point if it has happened or not (and i know it has happened). The point is that's what the discussion was in the ban thread. I don't agree with it.


Could you link me to a game in which it did happen? Cause I haven't seen it.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
raynpelikoneet
Profile Joined April 2007
Finland43268 Posts
January 06 2014 07:02 GMT
#12
I am saying in my opinion all people should be treated equally under same circumstances. That is what at least some vets are against.
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raynpelikoneet
Profile Joined April 2007
Finland43268 Posts
January 06 2014 07:03 GMT
#13
On January 06 2014 16:02 DarthPunk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 06 2014 15:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Okay why the fuck do i even try.. Whatever.

EDIT: It's not even the point if it has happened or not (and i know it has happened). The point is that's what the discussion was in the ban thread. I don't agree with it.


Could you link me to a game in which it did happen? Cause I haven't seen it.

No i won't. It does not matter because it does not achieve anything. It'll only make people angry and start another useless discussion that will tear this community apart.
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ObviousOne
Profile Joined April 2012
United States3704 Posts
January 06 2014 07:03 GMT
#14
On January 06 2014 16:02 raynpelikoneet wrote:
I am saying in my opinion all people should be treated equally under same circumstances. That is what at least some vets are against.

I think we've been working on establishing, as a concept, that there really is no such thing as "same circumstances". Show me where two people did the same thing and were treated very differently so we can dissect the situation.
Fear is the only darkness. ~Destiny Fan Club operator~
ObviousOne
Profile Joined April 2012
United States3704 Posts
January 06 2014 07:05 GMT
#15
That's super intellectually dishonest to say "there have been cases where" and then not provide cases. If you want to approach the situation with the goal of changing the way things are handled you have to demonstrate in a concrete manner how things are currently being handled inappropriately.
Fear is the only darkness. ~Destiny Fan Club operator~
raynpelikoneet
Profile Joined April 2007
Finland43268 Posts
January 06 2014 07:14 GMT
#16
Okay i'll stop. What-the-fuck-ever..

It's fucking impossible to even discuss these things without having to make someone angry and having to make a 1000 word case because you are trying to prove a simple point.

Here is what are similar circumstances:
"I did not like my role", "I did not like what player X said about me", "I got angry because of whatever", "I can't talk myself out of the lynch", "I don't like how people are playing the game", "my allies are fucking stupid".

Those are similar situations. You choose to quit the game because you can't deal with something in the game. The way you do it doesn't make a difference. Instead of trying to handle the situation in game you chose to chicken out and quit. Maybe you asked for a replacement, maybe you did just plain out ragequit, who the fuck cares - the bottom line is you quit.

Don't break the rules, don't whine about bans if you break the rules.
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DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
January 06 2014 07:14 GMT
#17
Ok The way I view it is this vetran players build up a ton of social capital by playing games with no issues, by hosting, chatting in IRC, playing voice mafia and generally being a positive part of the community.

By building up that social capital they should get more leeway than someone who is new and has not been a positive part of the community for years already.

Is it fair in the very narrowest sense. No.

Is it fair in a broader sense whilst considering the context of that person and the social capital they have built by being a part of the community for a long time. Fucking yes it is.

Geript rage quit 2 games in row and is a newer player and got a 3 game ban. DrH did the same and has the social capital of being a vet here for many years and also hosting many games, starting the podcast initiative etc.

And he did not get a 3 game for rage quitting games.

I view that as contextually fair. Things like this are not black and white, nor should they be.

"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
January 06 2014 07:16 GMT
#18
On January 06 2014 16:14 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Okay i'll stop. What-the-fuck-ever..

It's fucking impossible to even discuss these things without having to make someone angry and having to make a 1000 word case because you are trying to prove a simple point.

Here is what are similar circumstances:
"I did not like my role", "I did not like what player X said about me", "I got angry because of whatever", "I can't talk myself out of the lynch", "I don't like how people are playing the game", "my allies are fucking stupid".

Those are similar situations. You choose to quit the game because you can't deal with something in the game. The way you do it doesn't make a difference. Instead of trying to handle the situation in game you chose to chicken out and quit. Maybe you asked for a replacement, maybe you did just plain out ragequit, who the fuck cares - the bottom line is you quit.

Don't break the rules, don't whine about bans if you break the rules.


OK i just flat out disagree with those being similar things. But that is ok. I still love you.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
Oatsmaster
Profile Joined October 2012
United States16628 Posts
January 06 2014 07:19 GMT
#19
Also DrH just left TL mafia for like 4-5 months. Is it objectively fair to make him serve his 3 game ban when he got back? Sure. Does it make sense? Nope.
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Blazinghand *
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States25551 Posts
January 06 2014 07:23 GMT
#20
On January 06 2014 16:19 Oatsmaster wrote:
Also DrH just left TL mafia for like 4-5 months. Is it objectively fair to make him serve his 3 game ban when he got back? Sure. Does it make sense? Nope.


I was under the impression (though I could be wrong) that the ban list reset happened between DrH's bans and his return, which was the reason he wasn't banned.
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