Rule Suggestion Rule/Addition Suggestion regarding OOC

['Athena']

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.

 

[Brayan "Jim" Murry]

It’s a great suggestion, and I’d love to see it happen. However, when new players join and are still figuring things out, OOC (Out of Character) can have both benefits and drawbacks. On one hand, it helps them get up to speed, but on the other, it can disrupt the immersion or flow of the game. It’s a bit of a balancing act.

-/+ Support

 

[Merrick Travolta]

Given the date of this post, a lot of this is solved via the ability to disable OOC now (Unless you're a staff member, get skill issued), So I wouldn't be surprised if this is denied,

as for if this should exist as a rule. I have one little issue to present.

Half the time staff unless directly involved with a piece of RP, will not know if it's ongoing rp or past RP topics, atleast in my experience.

I won't be leaving a + or - Support but will be interested in how this one goes.

 

[Kevin Ki]

Bro how is this not denied yet?

 

[Zack Baker]

Bro how is this not denied yet?

ikr, this was made on october and its january now.. (108 days ago)

 

[Cain_Morris14]

-support

 

[Holland]

This suggestion was made before that was possible

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But teams sleeping I guess.

CT mimiimimimiimiimimimii

Not for us to judge on this only supers can respond to things like this.

 

[Naffen]

This rule has been added a while ago with the rule re work we did, and has been enforced by staff for the past couple months.

However we won't be adding "Liaison Channels" as these would most likely not resolve any issues except spike further arguments about their scenario.
We encourage all players to make staff sits to resolve incidents, and not all incidents warrant warns or bans

Partially Accepted