Trial Game Master
What does this suggestion change/add/remove:
Add the following rule- or adjust metabaiting to this one so it covers it: Extended Interactions or Discussion of Ongoing RP in OOC is punishable by a ban
To also allow anything that does need OOC interaction rather than asking people to take rooms, etc, is the addition of 2-3 liaison Channels in TeamSpeak or Discord so people are able to actually sort out what's going on, staff seeing a potential issue can join and monitor.
Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
The removal of OOC has, but I don't think a rule has been other than the new meta bait one. This came from a brief discussion in: Remove OOC Recent Suggestion
Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):
Encouragement of solving issues like adults
Less OOC clogging even when toggling is off, it means OOC is used purely for questions for staff (which should be a sit anyway), and then people are able to talk out issues themselves, record whatevers needed- which could also increase the maturity of the handling of rulebreaks from the player side of things.
The addition of those channels also gives staff a method to suggest any ongoing issues as a warning, such as "@person, @person, stop clogging OOC, call a sit or take it to a liaison channel"
Possible Negatives of the suggestion:
People may feel they dont want to go to a liason, and enforce, they don't. Its an option.
Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
Honestly, I think its a no brainer. I think it couples comfortably with the ooc change, and then if tagging someone in OOC gave an alert (say @SteamID) people can at least see when its happened and put y/n regarding it. I think it just brings a level of seriousness back, and while it somewhat relies on people to act like adults, realistically if you're screaming and having a crashout at someone, that's an entire separate issue that should be handled by staff anyway, but not really needed to be seen in OOC by other players.
Add the following rule- or adjust metabaiting to this one so it covers it: Extended Interactions or Discussion of Ongoing RP in OOC is punishable by a ban
To also allow anything that does need OOC interaction rather than asking people to take rooms, etc, is the addition of 2-3 liaison Channels in TeamSpeak or Discord so people are able to actually sort out what's going on, staff seeing a potential issue can join and monitor.
Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
The removal of OOC has, but I don't think a rule has been other than the new meta bait one. This came from a brief discussion in: Remove OOC Recent Suggestion
Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):
Encouragement of solving issues like adults
Less OOC clogging even when toggling is off, it means OOC is used purely for questions for staff (which should be a sit anyway), and then people are able to talk out issues themselves, record whatevers needed- which could also increase the maturity of the handling of rulebreaks from the player side of things.
The addition of those channels also gives staff a method to suggest any ongoing issues as a warning, such as "@person, @person, stop clogging OOC, call a sit or take it to a liaison channel"
Possible Negatives of the suggestion:
People may feel they dont want to go to a liason, and enforce, they don't. Its an option.
Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
Honestly, I think its a no brainer. I think it couples comfortably with the ooc change, and then if tagging someone in OOC gave an alert (say @SteamID) people can at least see when its happened and put y/n regarding it. I think it just brings a level of seriousness back, and while it somewhat relies on people to act like adults, realistically if you're screaming and having a crashout at someone, that's an entire separate issue that should be handled by staff anyway, but not really needed to be seen in OOC by other players.
