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#601

This is simply not true. A player decided to cheat. Nothing else.

#602

Then we fix that

Not changing the term for no reason

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#603

Potato potato, but yeah.

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#604

I don’t think the two of you are disagreeing with each other (about this incident) except in as much as you’re using slightly different terminology.

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#605

Crux of this argument right there

#606

I just mean “he cheated”
There was nothing with angleshooting.

#607

‘Didn’t leave the thread’
Define thread. Neighborhood chats?

#608

…not going to lie, I read that in my head as ‘poh-TAY-toh poh-TAY-toh.’

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#609

Neighbourhoods and masonries are technically part of the game, so that’s fine.

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#610

The difference is simple

Cheating is doing things against the rules

Angleshooting is doing things not technically against the rules as written but that are, to a reasonable observer, against the gameplay the rules are trying to effect.

#611

I don’t think Alice is disputing that the player in question cheated, she’s saying that the specific category of cheating was angleshooting.

#612

Cheating is against the rules…

#613

Then we are essentially in agreement. What you’ve explained Angleshooting as is essentially the OGI rule I have proposed.
Angleshooting just bans a lot more things that should not be banned and allows things we’ve already discussed to happen.

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#614

Uhmm… angleshooting is just an overall category for everything.

#615

Then how is your reworded version different

#616

Angleshooting is specifically acting in ways that aren’t blatantly disallowed but are underhanded (as compared to what the rules are trying to enforce) or borderline disallowed

#617

I’m opposing angleshooting. I want to be able to say “Arete has finals so it’s not sus that they’re posting less than normal”

#618

This is not that complicated tbh

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#619

Because it actually allows people to talk about information that they originally would be forced to withhold and more strategy to be used rather than ban it.

#620

This is more meta-related reasons. Not really angleshooting.

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