kraigu Posted:

That was always an explicit rule whenever I was in the position of having to make rules for online communities: “It’s cheating if I say it’s so.”

Makes life a lot easier when somebody tries to tell you that you don’t have an explicit rule against it. I mean really, our lives are so full of books full of rules that we need to pay somebody a lot of money in order to argue about the rules on our behalf.

Is that really what we want to happen here?

You’ve got to set a precedent somehow. This is how every rule system works, online or off.

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