On 2/7/23 01:32, ais523 via agora-discussion wrote: > Using a rule for an unintended purpose is a form of scamming, and thus > I think it's normally fair play in counter-scamming. > > However, a) we've had some new players join recently, and starting even > a very little Festival can mess things up for those players (although > this is mitigated somewhat by the way White Ribbons work); b) economic > dominance of the voting process is an entirely legitimate, non-scam way > to get Black Ribbons (as an alternative method for obtaining them, for > people who are bad at scams) – it was originally envisaged as buying > votes, but I think this might count too. The original idea was always > "do scam or buy votes", and I'm not sure whether using counterscams is > entirely "legitimate" when the thing you're trying to stop isn't really > a scam. > > As such, I'm not personally planning to support this intent.
I'm pretty much in the same school of thought as ais523. As far as I can tell, this would lock Aced7, Marb, the Astrally Forged, and tb148 out. Aced7 and Marb were likely dead on arrival registrations, the Astrally Forged set emself to inactive in December. tb148 *just* registered, however, and I'm hopeful they participate. I have a hard time justifying locking even a single person out for 2 weeks for a scam they're not involved in. -- nix Herald, Collector
