Seriously, this has been pissing me off for a while now, and nobody's done anything about it.
It seems that every single time there's an "RP" going on, people feel the need to traipse right through the middle of the main chat into the RP room with blatant disregard for the fact that the main chat page has recently introduced a "direct to RP room" checkbox, which has gone largely unused by the masses.
When I contact these people, I'm invariably met with either "It was an accident, I forgot", "Who cares", or my personal favorite: "It's too much effort". I could see this happening once or twice, but some people do this every single time they're going into the RP room, and some do it several times for alts.
Now, I happen to know for a fact that people have been banned simply for going into the RP room and leaving without saying anything. It's happened to me and Geo in the past numerous times, and I'm sick of it. Not 5 minutes ago one Mr. Tergonaut (If that's even his real name) banned me from chat for trying to discuss the manner with him.
I guess he's such a shining example of justice and good modship that he feels the need to ban everyone who threatens his word.
Now all I want is even a token slap-on-the-wrist penalty imposed on those RPers too negligent or lazy to expend all that extra effort of putting a tick in the box. Remember, just because it's not interrupting people pretending to be transgendered foxes having akward romantic scenes doesn't mean it's not annoying, or more annoying if it is, in fact, interrupting people pretending to be transgendered foxes having akward romantic scenes as the case may be.
So all I hope for is a bit less hypocrisy and a bit more justice (However corny that may sound).
o.o?
To be honest, no one really gives a crap if people enter and exit in the main section of the chat room. If we were to crack down on what you were suggesting we would have to ban lurkers as well since they contribute nothing to conversation.
It's the part where you feel you're being treated with less respect than the group of common RPers which peeves you, and is easy to see when this incident is grouped with your nonsensical hate for locked RP Rooms.
You were banned because you were insulting Terg and the group of RPers, citing them as "transgendered foxes having sex", and accusing him of hypocrisy. Personally, I was about to tell you to take that diddy to PM (something you can't seem to grasp), but Terg's strike came before mine and that's what you get.
On a related note, I'll be looking into making the checkbox more of a necessity since I did go about bothering to install it.
30 people come and go through the chat, knowing full well that the checkbox exists and it annoys several of the non-RPers. Nothing happens.
One person goes into the RP room, says nothing, and leaves. They are banned.
If that's not hypocrisy I don't know what is.
And the 'transgendered foxes' thing is a joke based on truth: They had this big long story arc where everyone's characters actually did turn into transgendered foxes. And you better believe there were akward romantic scenes.
It's not against the rules to sign into the chat and then change rooms, but it is against them to purposefully disrupt RPs. It's not hypocrisy, you don't know what is.
Why should RPers' conversation be any worse to disrupt than normal conversation.
Whether you say it is or not, that is the definition of a double standard.
They're not conversations, they're RPs. o.o
What makes an RP different from a regular conversation other than the fact that the participants in an RP conversation are fictional characters who may or may not be transgendered foxes.
It's a structured group activity. It's rude to interupt for the same reason you don't let people walk out onto a football field during a game.
And if it isn't clear already, RPers pass through the MF Chat because it's the default room upon entrance. The only reason a non-RPer would have to enter the RP Room abruptly is to purposely disrupt things and tick people off; which is the reason the act is so instantly marked a stupid move.
Then why does the checkbox exist?
The only reasons an RPer would have to go through the main room now are laziness and spite.
The spite part is more than likely immagined. Laziness though, yes. However, on a quick look through the rules, I don't see the abolishment of lazinezz.
I don't see anything about not being able to ask Terg why people are allowed to come through the main chat but Geo can't go into the RP room and then leave without saying anything but, lo and behold, I got banned for it =)
In my very first post I told you the reason you were banned. I'm not repeating myself.
If you're going to run in circles like a kid, then I'll just lock the topic.
I have only banned people who either 1) repeatedly switch between the two rooms on purpose to disrupt both rooms, 2) jump into the RP room, yell some flame or obscenity at them, then jump out, or 3) pretend to try to roleplay but are clearly mocking the other roleplayers.
Geogwe and you have been warned, repeatedly, not to harass the roleplayers. In return, you have repeatedly flamed them, jumped into the room to say snide remarks before leaving rapidly, or whined to me about supposed offenses to you from them. This isn't the first time that you've claimed that we've been "having sex" in the RP room, and it's about time that such ridiculous accusations were stopped.
If you cannot show enough basic respect to leave the RPers alone, then it becomes my business to enforce the rules. I have talked to them about the checkbox and will talk to them again to try to make sure there aren't any technical issues that might not have been mentioned. I have already tried to be reasonable about that; you wouldn't have even been banned if you hadn't gone so far to flame me after banning Geo for his deliberate provocation.
Slight edit: And yes, I did ban Geo for "merely" entering the room and exiting without saying anything. But he clearly did it ONLY because he saw your earlier whine about the checkbox thing, then deliberately signed out and back in using the checkmark just so he could do just what you yourself claim the RPers were doing: signing in to the wrong room to provoke and annoy. He got fair warning to knock it off before I banned him. So did you.
Show me where I directly insulted anyone other than telling Terg he was being a hypocrite, which he was, and has been for some time now.
And as I've already explained the "Transgendered Foxes" thing wasn't a joke. For about a month that's literally what they were RPing about
Wonderbat (Not a Bumblebee) (6:06 pm): Just because we're not pretending to be transgendered foxes having sex doesn't mean we should get less preferential treatment
If you disagree that this is insulting, it's not our problem, because only Terg has to think so to ban you.
There are no loose ends to this.
