Honour system is how 50% of all human societies have functioned throughout history
Neutral take (not my personal thoughts):
Due to nature of games, that method is inefficient.
In social games, you can theoretically do anything that’s not against the rules. In that, there are so so many things people can do that it’s mostly impossible to entirely standardize it.
That’s why host needs to pop in with edge cases.
Hosts went to the trouble of hosting the game, so why should they be bound by the rules?
They interpret their own rules, sort of like a judge.
If a player is actively endangering the integrity of the game (by exploiting a flaw that the host did not foresee or by turning chat into a swear war), then host should be able to act appropriately.
There is no specific rule needed to define behavior as there are endless edge cases.
As for whether that breaks the forum rules or not is up to debate.
It’s not a faliure of the honour system because I was having a Heated Gamer Moment™, not systematically dismantling the integrity of the game.
It’s an unrelated topic. I know I’m a fucked up asshole with anger issues, but I also know that your legalistic view of rules neccecarily cannot work when applied to a game about abstract intentions and lies.
If they worked perfectly, review wouldn’t be necessary for rulebreaks.
I think they work fine for their goal, but long games crack like an egg dropped off the Empire State
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Yeah, sorry for bringing it up, I didn’t do it as a fol mod, I’ve seen this as a player. It was just too strange that you are bringing the “society works” while broken the rules at the same time.
let me drag an example from le roman empire
Tribunes of the plebs had what was called sacrosanctity, which means they could not be killed.
However there was once an accident where some senators killed a tribune due to them thinking the tribune was demanding to be crowned king.
Once that tribune was killed there was no going back, sacrosancity was pratically moot.
why does that matter, decide for yourself tbqh. I just think it can be applied here in some god forsaken way
There are rules.
You have to follow them.
But there are grey areas.
Here comes the best judgement of the host, he can ask a fol mod tho, if he’s not sure.
Honor systems like in the colesseum and now roman plebs influencing the rules.
This isn’t good.
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im a huge fan of the way law functions in amercia.
Case law is really nice as it sets a prescient that could be used for future ruling