spacekadt Posted:

looking at the user’s level and visit history

I’m sorry, I’m not a mod and can’t look at their visit history.

I reiterate: By making this a precedent, the mods are essentially telling the entire forum “this person is a newbie who you can’t troll” or “this person is an established player who’s role-playing a newbie” who they then won’t want to troll. You saw how everything on emohunter stopped when that came to light. I don’t feel it’s the mods place to decide whether ANYTHING placed in ARP is RP or not, unless it is explicitly excluded by the rules of that forum, as plk pointed out. No embedded shock, no bringing up a user’s real-life issues, etc. None of those restricted things is present in the OP.

And at the risk of getting banned for mini-modding, can I remind you that…

Breaking character — or the illusion of RP itself — can get you banned.

I maintain that Cid did exactly that by moving this thread, but leaving SanDyk’s. Now I know that EM0GiRL- is NOT an alt of an existing player and so any attempts of hers to RP as such are forevermore squashed.

The thing I’m trying to get to here, but I’m blinded with rage so I’m not sure I can, is that the thread SHOULD NOT have been moved. Cid could have TMed the player and pointed her to the KB. Moving it and saying to everyone “LOOK! LOOK! REAL NEWBIE HERE! I’M GOING TO PROTECT HER! IF YOU SEE SOMEONE ASKING FOR HELP IN ARP JUST IGNORE THEM UNTIL THEY CAN BE PROTECTED, OR THE THREAD’S LEFT LONG ENOUGH THAT YOU KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THEY’RE JUST PLAYING AROUND!” doesn’t serve any useful purpose whatsoever.