Hey Bulletin-NPCers! =D

[diamondstorm]

I responded to the nurse comment, but not sure if that was noticed. =P In regards to the binary post, was that the entire thing or just the second part?

Thanks, guys.~ I know I'm really annoying about details. XD

Comments

[tiassa]

I don't know about the others, but I'm trying to be really specific about what exactly was removed - so if it's "post removed" the entire thing is gone, "thread removed" is just that thread, and I've removed just specific posts before...

[diamondstorm]

Cool, good to know. ^^

[tiassa]

We're all trying to get the hang of this right now, I think. ^^;;

[diamondstorm]

=D I understand. At least it's fun to get used to.


--By the way, are we still on for Hana and Albedo at lunch?

[tiassa]

I'm planning on it!

[revolves.livejournal.com]

Why was that post removed, exactly?

[tiassa]

Because it was blatantly code.

(It didn't immediately get removed, but as it progressed the nurses finally took it down.)

[revolves.livejournal.com]

I really disagree with this particular censorship- since when did restrictions against being "blatantly coded" get shoved in? Something like that seems really arbitrary, particularly since part of the original message about the board being censored was that patients could use code to get around it.

[tiassa]

Well, I was going with the mod ruling on this one - a post that's a lot of replies in binary is very obviously people passing messages, so that's why I censored this post.

[revolves.livejournal.com]

... Isn't the point of the board passing messages in the first place? 8|

I don't really think the post you linked says what you're implying- it's discussing widely-used languages and how comments made in them might be taken down if they are obviously against the "rules" in their wording. If it's to be used as a backup here, then you'd have to claim the nurses have knowledge of binary, which I could almost swallow if again, the original story wasn't that nurses could be tricked by simple codes.

[tiassa]

The nurses don't have to have a knowledge of binary to know that a flood of it is people passing secret messages. See the comment below.

[runner-up-robot.livejournal.com]

I think in that case, the 'code' they were referring to was stuff like "the cooking club is looking for more chefs' or 'I can make toys for the patients that know how to play with them properly' - disguising message-passing that would otherwise be banned as something acceptable on the BB, rather than something that is obviously a thinly-veiled way to discuss banned material, or possibly crazy gibberish (ie 'alien' patients using alien languages, like the Interlac or Decepticon codes, which they would probably want to discourage anyway as part of the delusion)

[revolves.livejournal.com]

If that was the case, then it should have been made clear much earlier on. I'm inclined to think it's not, considering things like '1337' were given the go-ahead as a viable code when the restrictions were first announced. That said, where is the line drawn in the nurses knowing when a message is a 'thinly veiled attempt to get past the rules'? The patients were not told they couldn't speak in code, and neither were the players.

[runner-up-robot.livejournal.com]

...to be fair, I know plenty of real-life people that would know what l33t is and roll their eyes and walk away without bothering to read it.

More to the point... there's several mods/NPC mods to coordinate with each-other, and by the nature of the game and the players there's a lot of free choice and room for being clever. So, there's going to be some crossed wires, changed minds, and ambiguity, and sometimes they can't prepare for every eventuality except to judge on a case-by-case basis whether it's over the line or not, when it comes up. That's just the nature of open-ended role-playing *shrug*

If you really want a reason to expect that not every single thing that the nurses didn't understand would fly, the original BB restrictions post did say "the nurses will certainly not be smart enough to see past even simple codes so long as they're mundane enough." Not explicitly in the list of major things to be taken down, but it probably wasn't made clearer before now just because no-one brought it up before now.

[tiassa]

This. Exactly.

Making comments about weaving blankets is a little weird but not blatant "HI I'M PASSING SECRET MESSAGES" like a flood of binary or Irken or whatever.

[kindalikedit]

I had a question about the bulletin board but do we need to have the nurses actually post something was removed/crossed out or can we do it ourselves?

I've done it a few times already but I probably should've made sure it's okay.

Edit: the things I had crossed out were Dean cursing, and mentioning breasts.

[tiassa]

As long as it's stuff that should be censored (like, yes, cursing) then I personally don't care if you do it yourself?

I'm told there's supposed to be mod clarification on bulletin stuff posted some time today, though.

[kindalikedit]

Oh, okay, awesome on both counts.

[boyking]

I mentioned that to Erin last night, actually, to ask if it's something that can be mentioned that players are allowed to just do in general, and sounds like it's fine for now? Not sure what they're deciding on in the long run, though.