Thinking of adding this rule to the Guidelines:

Rule #7 wrote:Registering multiple accounts, exploiting flaws in the voting system (forum polls) or cue sheet system, conspiring with other users to gain an unfair and unintended advantage in polls or the cue sheet system, impersonating another member, claiming to be or making it appear as if you are of a different rank, falsifying awards, scamming other members, or any other dishonest or deceptive behavior on the forums will be met with swift retribution.

We haven't seen anybody violate this kind of rule yet, but we may see it a lot when more people begin to join the forums.

Yeah i think that is a good way to cover our butts as we look into the future. Also with some of these new characters joining up who knows the kind of problems we will be encountering *cough cough* Lore. Just messing around i am glad to have your on here.

Ya that sounds like a solid rule. I'm curious though is there any real legality to this kind of stuff? Or is it like posting "No Girls Allowed" on the outside of your clubhouse?

Jtan wrote:...is there any real legality to this kind of stuff? Or is it like posting "No Girls Allowed" on the outside of your clubhouse?

the term "swift retribution" is intentionally left vague because the form of retribution is very dependent on the way in which the rule was violated. If someone scams a social security number or credit card number out of another member on our forum, we most definitely can have the person tracked down by IP and arrested for computer crimes.

However, if the offender impersonated a moderator so they could steal graphics, story concepts, or other game material, then we could not really have them arrested, but we could file suit against them because they agreed to a legal disclaimer before they were allowed to post anything on this forum. Especially Jtan, since he has his concepts copyrighted.

If the offender was just lying about their rank or awards or cheating on the cue sheet system or voting polls we could not pursue legal action, per se, but we do have the authority to ban that user, block their IP address, and blacklist them so other sites and forums would be wary about letting that person into those other forums.

If the scamming or dishonesty is extended into the multiplayer game environment, we have the authority to imprison/disable/delete the player's account.

Of course, there are also several other forms of retribution that are well within our ability to administer... they are just not legal to administer.

Lol, well thank you for the thorough explanation. Knowing that, yes I feel absolutely that rule should be in place.

The new Rule #7 has been added to the Guidelines and is now being enforced.

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