User blog comment:La Paradox/Combat Revamp (discussion)/@comment-5963425-20140225181350

Bienvenue. I am glad that you did attempt to publish a proper blog before moving on with the nominations. Now, I had not planned to actually opt out my opinion yet. But I guess I shall do so, then, and cut to the chase. (Remember that this is my opinion, not an immediate approval or denial.)

I disapprove of this system. I understand where you are trying to come from, but I believe it is unnecessary to make it an official judgment system. People that role plays’ make their own decision to role play with each other, whether it is a wrong or a good choice. Often when there is a disagreement, the role players share the page on the chat to ask other users for their opinion. Who is fair? Who isn’t being fair? What could be changed? I did get these private messages and so do other admins. But you even see them appearing on the general chat.

And what bothers me the most is the content of the blog. “Refusal to abide by decisions made by the panel will result in a warning for a first occurrence, second is a report to the administration, third is a one-day ban, etc.” – we never block people for their ignorance to role playing. It is either that the users get to an agreement between each other, the rp ends in a tied and/or locked from future posts.

What I did had in mind, even before this came up, and what we are trying to enable soon, is the new forum. The new forum allows us to organize the forum a lot more. And I’m intending to create different categories that could give a more helpful hand for different subjects. One of these categories would be indicated for these role plays, and in there, people could request role plays and discuss them in the open. Still, the users can converse “privately” there, but with evidence. And then, if mishaps happen, users can give their feedback on how to solve the disagreement between the role players.

This is place meant to be kept fun, which, it can be, even without this system.

Now, with that said. I hope the other members of our community, including our admins, will give their feelings and opinions here.