After it was pointed out to me in the Wankgate thread, I actually altered my response to this issue on TLH, as this was a very good point. I can't change anonymous comments, though, and I didn't want to discuss the matter further on Wankgate, since we've been asked not to do so except in the appropriate place.
Since we have NOT been asked, yet, to do anything specific in this community, I'm fine to have a bit more open discussion of this, here, but as soon as we're asked to do otherwise by anyone from rpanons, I'll need to ask everyone to move it to private, or to the Contact the Mods post of TLH.
That said, let me make a more officially official statement of this:
I am not EVER for ANY reason going to ban a player from TLH for any offense they have committed prior to playing at TLH. Period.
I completely understand keeping someone out of a game, if the playerbase is uncomfortable with them, because that is a closed community of people, and your success in the game is directly affected by the people you interact with. They're like a workplace, where you have to have a specific keycard to enter, and what affects one person affects literally everyone in the community.
But TLH is an open community. It is no more private or locked or inaccessible than walking, say, into a Starbucks. (A... Starbucks where people are having sex... I guess? Look, just bear with me on the metaphor a moment.) All of humanity goes in and out of a Starbucks, there's nothing you have to do to get in other than be dressed, pretty much, and you can come in and get your coffee and leave. No one HAS to interact with each other and everyone just comes in, gets their cup of coffee and leaves. There are some regulars, who all the baristas know, and who probably all know each other, but the vast majority of the people coming through are there and then gone, or come back every now and then. It's not the same kind of environment AT ALL.
I'm just going to outright say it-- while I might disagree as a person and as human being with someone's opinions or actions, as a mod, I don't care what you've done. Torture kittens and post it on YouTube, if you're not disturbing the peace on the community, you can post there. I might think you're a despicable human being, but you're not actively fucking up the community, and that is the part I hold sway over. I'm not here to police anyone's lives or choices or crimes or anything else, whether I agree with them or not.
I will ban people for pretty much one thing, and that is harassment or otherwise being a raging douche-canoe on TLH or TLH OOC, or directly related to a thread being played in TLH, if that can be proven. That's what I have control over, that's what I will be policing. That's it. That's all.
I'm happy to discuss this decision making process with anyone who wishes to discuss it, though I would much, much prefer to either do this on TLH, or privately, rather than here.
If you have any harassment reports to make, I will only be accepting those through the Contact the Mods post, through a PM to this journal, or through a private plurk, and will only discuss those there.
Re: THE LOVE HOTEL
Since we have NOT been asked, yet, to do anything specific in this community, I'm fine to have a bit more open discussion of this, here, but as soon as we're asked to do otherwise by anyone from rpanons, I'll need to ask everyone to move it to private, or to the Contact the Mods post of TLH.
That said, let me make a more officially official statement of this:
I am not EVER for ANY reason going to ban a player from TLH for any offense they have committed prior to playing at TLH. Period.
I completely understand keeping someone out of a game, if the playerbase is uncomfortable with them, because that is a closed community of people, and your success in the game is directly affected by the people you interact with. They're like a workplace, where you have to have a specific keycard to enter, and what affects one person affects literally everyone in the community.
But TLH is an open community. It is no more private or locked or inaccessible than walking, say, into a Starbucks. (A... Starbucks where people are having sex... I guess? Look, just bear with me on the metaphor a moment.) All of humanity goes in and out of a Starbucks, there's nothing you have to do to get in other than be dressed, pretty much, and you can come in and get your coffee and leave. No one HAS to interact with each other and everyone just comes in, gets their cup of coffee and leaves. There are some regulars, who all the baristas know, and who probably all know each other, but the vast majority of the people coming through are there and then gone, or come back every now and then. It's not the same kind of environment AT ALL.
I'm just going to outright say it-- while I might disagree as a person and as human being with someone's opinions or actions, as a mod, I don't care what you've done. Torture kittens and post it on YouTube, if you're not disturbing the peace on the community, you can post there. I might think you're a despicable human being, but you're not actively fucking up the community, and that is the part I hold sway over. I'm not here to police anyone's lives or choices or crimes or anything else, whether I agree with them or not.
I will ban people for pretty much one thing, and that is harassment or otherwise being a raging douche-canoe on TLH or TLH OOC, or directly related to a thread being played in TLH, if that can be proven. That's what I have control over, that's what I will be policing. That's it. That's all.
I'm happy to discuss this decision making process with anyone who wishes to discuss it, though I would much, much prefer to either do this on TLH, or privately, rather than here.
If you have any harassment reports to make, I will only be accepting those through the Contact the Mods post, through a PM to this journal, or through a private plurk, and will only discuss those there.