This was posted during one of the more recent, ahh, kerfluffles:
That’s a link to some specific excerpts, obviously - I went and found Rydralain’s post rather than the top level link to their documents. What they’ve done should be reviewed.
Not only in terms of the policies having addressed many relevant issues over a length of time and with a large community, but also in terms of presenting a distinct, living document rather than a giant forum-blurb of plaintext.
While “We’re all awesome, please play nice!” sounds good, it’s a bit of whitewashing. There are some large gray areas and lots of room to clarify both language and readability in what we have now.
Just as the macro issue isn’t addressed as a single sentence, neither can our need for some plotting/settlement guidelines, or reminders that while we’re currently a predominantly older/adult community, the game does invite all ages to play.
This is a little next level. I’m not sure @majorvex would like that nomination, or have anything like the time. There’s a solid need for in-game enforcement, and that’s been a major issue as the game has grown, and then shrunk again. Each time it grows the need re-appears.
However this is definitely not a function for a community member - and in any case we probably wouldn’t want anyone who would ‘volunteer’ for this sort of position. Even with a paid, neutral company representative handling this there will be complaints of favoritism or other issues - and your build might be gone before you would even have the chance to voice a legitimate protest.