Knowing what I know and seeing what I see, I honestly think Cid made the right move by moving the thread. Most of the time, it’s not too difficult to see if someone’s RPing when asking a question like this – looking at the user’s level and visit history, it’s really, really, really damned obvious that it was a legit question.

That said, had it been posted in the camwhores forum, or GRP or anywhere on that side *other* than ARP, I’d have said let it stay where it was. But *ARP* is not the place for game-related questions that aren’t part of a character’s RP persona.

Sergeant Cid Posted:

Also, plk, let’s read the entire paragraph you quoted: ”This can be a tricky thing to moderate, so please be patient and expect some subjectivity. Don’t use the ARP forum to seriously bring up issues or questions — we’ll just bumume you’re role-playing. If you doubt your ability to faithfully role-play, try practicing in GRP instead.”

1. The bolded part is pretty irrelevant. It’s a more subjective moderation.

2. Your claim that “The implication there is that it’s okay to RP in ARP as a site noob” is pretty much contradicted by JB’s statement: ”Don’t use the ARP forum to seriously bring up issues or questions”. His followup comment of what we might bumume isn’t an all-encompbuming decision; it’s just one possibility.

Sorry, I didn’t want to be a pedant and quote the whole paragraph for you, so I paraphrased. Anyway, the issue of RPing as a site noob was brought up and talked about in the thread about ARP in the rules charter forum. I don’t frankly care whether you moved this particular thread or not, but I’m just pointing out that you should expect that people might RP as site noobs in ARP in the future.

Wow, you totally took the wrong interpretation on that, MCB. This wasn’t about ‘protecting a noob’. This was about moving a thread from where it did not belong and to where it did.

I’m shocked that you were so easily ‘blinded with rage’. Additionally, I’m surprised that you bumume I haven’t contacted the player behind the scenes. Not only did I warn him/her about posting in the wrong forum, and pointed out where the KB & wiki could help him/her out, I also tempbanned him/her for illegal alts. All in all, I covered all the bases, I thought.

And when have we ever said that newbies can’t be trolled?

You know I love you, Banhammer, but you really don’t see the difference right up front with a level 18 character and a level 69 character?

SanDyk isn’t RP’ing a newbie, he’s RP’ing a troll. There’s a difference.

That said, if JB decided to play through the game tomorrow with a new character and hit an appropriate level for a quest and posted in ARP asking how to beat it, I’d move it. Even knowing that it’s JB. Posting in ARP pretty much removes the doubt that the character is an actual newbie and confirms that it is an alt. How many newbies have actually posted their serious game questions in RP? If a character wants to RP as a site newbie, there’s no reason they can’t post their questions (whether they know the answer or not) in GD. Note to trolls: If you’ve already pbumed a mission and are asking about it on the same character or are posting questions simply to troll us in response to that comment, I can and will ban you for trolling – don’t test it.

If someone wants to create doubt as to whether they’re a newbie or not, it’s best to act like a newbie. And that means asking your questions in the appropriate forum instead of ARP.

I have apparently shed every last vestige of modness from myself: The non-mods agree with me, the mods disagree with me.

Death to mods!

Srsly, I’m blinded with rage because no matter the reasonings and the thoughts behind moving a thread from ARP to CD, to those of us who CAN’T see behind the scenes, it feels like emohunter all over again, only this time, from the mods.