OOC conflicts

Hi folks,

We’ve recently observed an unacceptable escalation of OOC conflicts spilling into game channels, city clans, mass messages, and private tells surrounding a specific interpersonal situation. If you’re involved, you know exactly what I’m talking about, and this post is to address all of you since the situation is spreading too wide for us to cast a full net over.

This needs to stop. Now.

While passionate debate and IC rivalry are parts of the game, certain patterns of behaviour have emerged surrounding this situation that are detrimental to the overall health of our community and the enjoyment of the game for many.

What we’ve seen over the past week includes: weaponized issues; OOC posts designed to assassinate someone’s character; dragging uninvolved players into the drama through mass messages or otherwise bringing their name up; ignore cirvumvention; sharing around of private content (e.g. posts, messages) through the game community; treating admin like your personal mediation service; and more.

This behavior is consuming excessive administrative time and creating a toxic environment for everyone involved, including bystanders who just want to play the game.

Effective immediately:
– Any further retaliatory or frivolous issues regarding this situation will result in loss of issue privileges.
– Continued use of OOC channels to prosecute personal grievances will result in temporary game suspensions.
– Players who persist in dragging others into this drama will face escalating consequences.

Anything that otherwise remains a violation of actual game rules is still safe to issue about.

This is the final warning for all parties to drop these issues and move on.

Penned by my hand on Tisday, the 19th of Lleian, in the year 11 AC.