Expectations

Hello,

I am new to this game and am excited to try it out, but I heard that the admin are very strict and are known to give out harsh bans for minor violations. Are those rumors true? What are some examples of behaviors that have resulted in bans in the past?

Wow that does sound scary. What are some behaviors that might be viewed as griefing and get reported? I heard that a lot of players like to report people for relatively benign things.

Thanks. It looks like there are a lot of generalized rules that could be interpreted in many different ways. I read that someone got banned for over a year because they started too many votes during the game and that was considered disrespectful. If that's true, I'm nervous that the admin will see any kind of unintentionally annoying behavior to be bannable, no matter how minor it is.

... Dakeys stop it.

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I don't understand what you're talking about.

ZeroKPlayer


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Anyway, which moderator do you think is the strictest? I heard Aquanim is pretty harsh and hands out bans liberally due to his insecurities.

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Well, sometimes a single complaint can create disproportional responses, but that is a 'bug' of most societal management systems - when dealing with nonlinear systems like humans (or worse, societies) there is always the risk of minor actions causing major reactions, both positive and negative. You can get famous for repeating some random old quote, or excommunicated for dressing slightly differently than the norm (or not different enough etc.).
The important thing is that while such bans/reactions can happen, they generally happen very rarely - on average, a minor action/annoyance/etc. will result in minor reactions.