Bionic_Flea

Smoke Signal LIVES!!!

Since I understand that you are an actual lawyer, not just play one on TV, would you say that HC's moderation policies are illegal? How about unethical?

You saying it emphatically doesn't make it so. Fairness to who? Accountability for whom? Again, it seems to me you just want a way to throw shade at HC, or perhaps at certain players. And THAT is precisely why moderation actions are not made public. This game isn't real life. HC isn't the police. No one gets physically hurt and no one goes to prison. This debate that you and I are having is EXACTLY what would happen if the GMs' actions were public. You or someone else would go on debating the ethics or lack thereof of their decisions.

The rule is: They don't discuss moderation actions. If you are unhappy with that, it's OK for you to be unhappy. Whether HC reveals their moderation actions or not has nothing to do with ethics. It is neither malum in sa (inherently evil) or malum prohibitum (evil only because it is prohibited). It is merely a preference. It seems to me that some may just want ammunition to criticize HC. Except you don't need ammunition. People criticize HC here all the time.

Just playing devil's advocate here, so don't kill me. Let's assume HC did tell you the result. Published the result on a log even. How would that go? 1. They investigated your complaint and disagreed for whatever reason. It didn't look enough like Superman to generic, they looked at chat logs and found that the complainer was the aggressor, or they looked at chat logs and felt that the incident could have been role play as no clear out-of-character statement to leave the complainer alone was made. The complainer will not be satisfied and perhaps start a series of appeals. The accused now knows the complainer (or someone) made a complaint against him. 2. They agree with the complaint but only issue a warning or a 24 hour ban, not the permanent ban complainer was hoping for. The complainer will not be satisfied and perhaps start a series of appeals. The accused now knows the complainer (or someone) made a complaint against him. The accused is also not satisfied and appeals. 3. They agree with the complaint and issue a permanent ban. Complainer is satisfied but accused is not. Accused starts a series of appeals and tells his friends that complainer got him booted . . . and then creates a new account. I don't see any of those outcomes as helpful or beneficial. It creates the potential for a new series of appeals that have to be addressed on top of addressing current problems. It creates additional animosity between players and between players and HC. Everyone knows the outcome but what benefit is gained?

The Dark Triad Sociopath Yomo would just burn it down.

You can give yourself wings temporarily to see them in action. That's how I got my screenshot above.

HEY! Wrong insect.

I will! *FLASH* I have 68 level 50s on HC and 2 non-50s that I made for testing stuff Another 107 level 50s on Test and other servers and 60 something that are not level 50s that were mostly joke characters or made by friends and family messing with the character creator or playing for a few levels. My usual pattern is to come up with an idea for a new character and play it to 50 and usually to at least +3 or all T3 incarnates. Only my very favorites get to T4 and a few get retired after unlocking a few incarnates. I may or may not come back to them soon, but I do eventually. I started HC with nothing, just like everyone else. But I made my first billion within a week or two. I have no idea how many billions I have scattered across my HC toons, let alone the ones on other servers that may have been artificially boosted. But I know that I have more than enough to fulfill my needs and if I ever don't have enough it's easy to make more. Yomo, I am sure, has in pocket and has given away multiples more than I have. But I think he will admit that he enjoyed getting there, giving some away, and teaching others how to get as much as they need or want. I did too. Why wouldn't I want others to have that enjoyment? Also: They have to work for it at least as hard as I did, dagnabbit!

This is sort of a variation on the same theme as the OP. I've always felt that the TFs should grant their contacts' recipe in addition to any other rewards. So if you run Numina, you get all the usual rewards and then an additional random Numina's Convalescence recipe. Yes, I understand that a Numina is probably more desirable than a Lady Grey or Manticore set recipe, but that's OK. It's a bit of lagniappe -- something extra -- if nothing else you can sell it or convert it. Not all contacts have recipes named after them so we'd have to assign them something relevant or related. For example, maybe have Citadel give out Kinetic Combat or some other melee or blast set as he seems to play like a Blapper. Barricuda could give out Mako's Bite. Maybe Gift of the Ancients for ITF.

Some kind of search function for badges would be AWESOME!! I frequently forget what section a particular badge is in and end up doing a lot of scrolling. The BadgeSetList popmenu is a godsend. While it doesn't have a search function it DOES make it pretty easy to find what badges you have or not. Very helpful with accolades in particular.

They do, but it's hard to proofread your own work. It's easy to miss that misspelled word because you know what you meant and your brain reads right past that. You also need to test things on multiple builds and frequently with multiple other players to find the problems. That requires a critical mass of testers.

Can I see your Idea Police badge number, sir, please?

^^^That was written by AI, wasn't it?