Found the token ace

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da

[(Anonymous)]

They were angry the mods were following their own rules and threw a fit over it on plurk. It was a mistake on their part for iirc not having a hiatus long enough to be exempt and/or not asking a friend to just post to AC for them while they're without internet.

They could've taken it gracefully and accepted it, but instead they trashtalked the mods and honestly I wouldn't want to thread with them anyway after that display.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Seconded, the mods were just doing what was right here and I'd heavily side-eye anyone who throws a fit over a situation they could have easily prevented.

dda (also +1)

[(Anonymous)]

what makes this worse is that they have had the time and ability to declare a hiatus in their other two games so idk how they screwed themselves out of this one. good riddance anyway if they'll behave like that.

this is not a direct transcript of the plurk in question because the other players in this discussion shouldn't be under scrutiny, but here are some quotes-

sun jing.
Apparently being on hiatus and or going to a third world country are grounds for being Too Special to be exempt
sun jing.
Yeah they said I didn't contact them properly and they can't show ~favoritism~~~~ by letting me submit ac or getting a strike
sun jing.
I'm bitter too because lol? Rp is not more important? We both had valid reasons and I legit had no internet. Like way to not tell me how to contact them and then wait til I'm already swept
sun jing.
To tell me oh sorry you did it "wrong"
sun jing.
"Doing their jobs" lol

Original deets requester

[(Anonymous)]

They're doing their jobs by not coddling people who can't be damned to double-check the validity of their hiatus.

Of course they're going to wait until the player is swept then, it's not a mod's duty to assume who's on a ~legit~ hiatus and who's not, and anyone with half a brain to think should have proposed an alternative like giving AC in advance or just have filed for one long enough to exempt them.

Seriously, good riddance.

da

[(Anonymous)]

ugh i saw that plurk and it was so gross. i hope neither of them come back and even if they do, i won't be tagging them bc that level of entitlement is crazy

"rp is not more important" yeah then stop throwing a tantrum over it? you fucked up, stop blaming the mods for it

da

[(Anonymous)]

just like on wg, this is no worse than anything else in that plurk tbh and is edited/positioned without context.
player is in other games, legit did have no internet, and was able to talk to the other game mods to work things out. also realized on their own that the hiatus at cerealia wasn't long enough but still tried to contact the mods about it. iirc mods did not reply or offer any suggestions. player also offered to have a strike or work something out due to hiatus not being long enough (as another anon pointed out) and wasn't asking for a free pass so uh... could be worse.

na

[(Anonymous)]

anon, if your reason is legit then you just say that. like it happens with app rejections, being frustrated over it, whining about it is not. "Doing their jobs" lol" is a baby thing to say.

sa

[(Anonymous)]

*over it is ok

i accidentally a word

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Especially after someone called them out on their behaviour.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

i don't understand the second sentence really (sorry)... but yeah i get your meaning. idc either way. i just think there's been worse.

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

you talk the same way here you do on plurk sun jing you're not fooling anyone

+1

[(Anonymous)]

legit

[(Anonymous)]

no but ok

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

Ac is the first of every month.

When did they realize they suddenly didn't have ac? Before or after they went to a third world country without internet? If they knew they weren't going to be able to respond at that time then why didn't they tell the Cereal mods sooner or ask one of their fourteen other cast mates to check in for them?

da

[(Anonymous)]

I think they thought they posted the hiatus earlier in Dec...they said as much later on

da

[(Anonymous)]

but really how hard is it to send an email to the mods when going on hiatus if you know you're going to be gone during the AC check? that seems like something that should have been fully preventable.

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

well, here's the thing: the player involved CLAIMS that they did attempt to contact the mods, but the mods never received any such message.

I'm 99.99% sure the player is bullshitting, because it would be stupidly easy to get swept by AC and then lie about how you toooootally tried to contact the mods, they just didn't get it!! nobody can prove otherwise (though it goes both ways in that you also can't prove the message was ever sent in the first place).

even if it is true that the player tried to alert the mods, this mess is still their own fault for not chasing up the message when they received no response. if they were concerned that their message hadn't been seen, they could also have asked some of their gamemates to keep an eye on the AC warning list, just in case their journal ended up on there. then their friends could have vouched for them like "yo, player is actually away right now but they intended to hiatus/take a strike/whatever".

assuming their "message" actually existed, then it's unfortunate things wound up this way, but the player should have taken more care ensuring it was followed through on. the mods can't do anything about something they never received, and were acting perfectly within the rules in striking the player from the game.

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

The anon who posted it stated it was edited to not include others and get them in trouble. If there's more, that's pertinent, then provide information rather than complain or reiterate what has already been said.

da

[(Anonymous)]

Were they even active? It seems like a lot of fuss from someone I rarely saw around.

da

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty positive they weren't.

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

It's Merry, right? Of course they weren't

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

was them having no internet unexpected? because ngl i'd be pissed too if that were the case.

DDA

[(Anonymous)]

They said so themselves in the hiatus comment (That they expected not to have net access), and this was the same month in which there was a mod post stating that the 14 days of hiatus have to fall between the first to the last day of the month for an exemption.

Re: DDA

[(Anonymous)]

so they had 14 days, but part of it was in one month and part of it was in the next month? sorry i'm not in the game so i'm trying to get a clear picture if how this works.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

That's correct. They had around a month actually, but only 10-11 of those days accounting for timezones were between December 1st to 31st, so they would in fact have been exempt from January's AC as most of the hiatus days were in the period that January's AC would have been.

Tl;dr: Minimum for full exemption is 14 days within the month of the AC, not before that month and not after. Hope that helps.