[To Admin & Mod Staff]

My automated flight pattern systems prevent me from deviating onto hazardous and unknown flight paths. Send Sentinel.

[To Admin & Mod Staff]

I'm not at all a seasoned game mod, but I'm always available for question answering. Be aware however that not all questions can be answered as they may reveal detection methods, individual's identities, or other pieces of privileged information.

[Clarifications and Reminders]

That's a lot of writing after the fact to justify a ridiculous ban on someone who posted within your new parameters. When discussions all too easily become de facto polls of public opinion, discouraging assent or dissent stifles discussion more than any one word garbage posts ever have.

This "lots of writing" was done as it is clear that you and many others appear to have a difficulty understanding that "you can now reply with one worded congratulatory posts to an announcement" has not, does not, and will not include clearly stated continued infractions such as QFT posts. There is absolutely no reason anyone should get warned more than once, much less banned, for spam. But that is not for us in the moderation to keep from happening, it's the posters who we can only ask so many times to follow rules. But then again, what do we in moderation know about forum rules, we should always defer to a panel of those warned and their friends on the rules and regulations.

[Policy Regarding Tech Received From Multis]

What about nations who bought tech from nations in good faith, only for those nations that sold the tech to be deleted for being a multi. How does one know if the nation selling you the tech is a multi? Why should the buyer acting in good faith be the one penalized?

Any tech received from a nation that is deleted for a multi will be removed.

Illegitimate tech is still illegitimate, no matter if it was received in good faith or bad. Otherwise everyone could claim good faith hereon out and deal with multis exclusively with no statistical repercussions. We aren't going to look at every drop of tech sent on a case by case basis and determine who did and did not know, and we certainly cannot just ask people on an honor system. And no, good faith buyers aren't the one penalized, everyone involved is. Multis, bad faith buyers, and good faith buyers. An across the board neutralization of illegitimate tech going forward.

[Policy Regarding Tech Received From Multis]

I foresee some issues with this blanket effect of removing tech, What is stopping an nation from selling tech however sending it from a Multi nation, that nation then get deleted however the buyer who had no idea the person sending them tech was a multi now lose out on the tech they paid for? this will stop new nations from being able to sell tech as the the buyer will now run the risk of not only losing the tech they bought but the cash they paid for it.

"Any tech received from a nation that is deleted for a multi will be removed."

What would happen if the nation receiving tech had no idea if the sender was a multi or not?

Tech received from illegitimate nations is itself illegitimate, and should never have existed if everyone was being honest rule abiding citizens. If everyone could keep their tech because they can feign plausible deniability saying they paid for the tech then why delete tech farm multis at all? Anyone who receives tech from a multi is, even if unknowingly, a part of the wider machinations of that multi's activities.

[Policy Regarding Tech Received From Multis]

I like how this is tagged sensual. Oh Keelah, your roguish charm will net you a lucky vulture one day and a nest full of hatchlings.

That is closely guarded staff insider information I'm afraid.

Edit: I misread you, my apologies for misinterpreting your intentions as trying to learn of Keelah's nesting habits.

[Adjustment to Our Policy on Spam]

Was this done so that you can do even less of your jobs than you do now?

Don't fret, at least we aren't too lazy to warn for mod sass.

[Adjustment to Our Policy on Spam]

Except the rules specifically allow the one-word meaning of that emoticon. I don't see how specifically prohibiting the emoticon makes sense in that context. I can understand banning other emoticons, but not that one tbh.

If we allow one emoticon, people will demand we allow more such as o7 (just for starters). We allowed one worded congratulations and people want memes and o/. If you can't even be bothered to post the four letters for "hail" or a contracted "congrats" and absolutely have to post o/, frankly you have no business posting in the thread in the first place. That's just the way of things. Maybe in the future there will be a change to allow it, but for the time being we have decided to continue our ban on all emoticon-only posts rather than start a precedent for allowing it. As such it is easier for everyone to just keep things as they are, it hurts no one and isn't a some massive request of you the posters.

[Adjustment to Our Policy on Spam]

What is the rationale behind specifically banning 'o/' but allowing 'Hail' when those are identical in meaning?

o/ is considered an emoticon, whereas 'Hail' and the like are a word of congratulations.

[Announcing New Additions to the Staff]

Wait, so TidyBowlMan has become a mod in the last 10 minutes?

Actually that'd be a great idea for a punishment, unfortunately the paperwork is now out of my hands. It would be nice to have somebody to go through all those thousands of files to be properly archived after all.

[Announcing New Additions to the Staff]

I sincerely hope this was meant to be as sarcastic as TBM's was meant to be

Too late, I have already submitted the four dozen pages of paperwork to the senior staff for review regarding the issue. Provided everything was stamped correctly, we should see a reckoning on TidyBowlMan in eleven to twelve business days. That said, the office is closed this Friday so it may take even longer.