Zelmana

It is definitely a concern and I in no way mean to dismiss some effort shouldn't be done to attempt to validate age by some means. Because yeah- this has been an issue previously. I just can't think of a good way to verify someone beyond some effort. I know something that could dissuade this is whether or not someone passes for an age with their voice. I know that someone mentioned earlier in this thread that won't work, as they're mute, but.... surely that is a incredibly small likelihood and different ways can go about it. But what is this asking? Are we asking that current staff somehow be audited? Is there a concern about certain staff behaving in ways that may indicate they're underage?

Another example using a real-ID as a base for face-swapping/editing. This one has some grain to it, but nothing "sorry my phone has bad quality" won't excuse.

Just for the sake of devil's advocate, you could easily fake this kind of stuff. Below is a chat-gpt output from completely raw data. The below image was made from just a prompt. You could make it nearly perfect by getting an image of an ID for an AI to reference the design, and input your own picture. Look younger? Age your own actual face up in the picture before requesting the ID and you face be merged into one singular, "my-face-aged-up-thrown-onto-a-custom-fake-ID" type prompt. It's so easy! Now, I don't play too often, but my 2 cents is that staff do their due diligence in understanding the applicant beforehand. There is absolutely risk in having underage staff. All of those saying "well we don't have that problem" might not have a great memory of years back where this was seemingly more prevalent in our staff.

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Which, even if I cannot express without some frustration and perhaps badly wording some of my appeal to later be used against me, I still feel that it was a gross overreaction on your part.

What I said was as much "don't be a dick" rule-breaking as your ban reason of "when you act like an adult". Both are casual, asinine statements.

Especially since this is my second permaban, meaning that this is likely unappealable. I said a simple joke, after having a few years of very good record since my behavior when I was younger/since my last permaban. Like I said above, I think this was given out waaaayy too casually.

BYOND Key: Zelmana Staff BYOND Key: roostercat Game ID: Discord, Case ID 359, 360 Reason for complaint: Unreasonable Escalation, No attempts at De-escalation, Punitive Length/Severity At 6:30a EST an admin made an announcement that an individual was leaving staff. This is due to the player quitting after receiving a strike related to ERP. I had made a comment that was basically the following: " >Advertise ERP Server >Get striked >Quit the server <gif of guy smoking cigarette solemnly>" I was striked for this by roostercat, with the below reason. "Making comments about another player quitting after linking an ERP server. While what they did was against the rules, it doesn't mean its suddenly acceptable to post snipe [sic] comments about them." While I am aware rule 1 "Don't be a dick" is a completely arbitrary rule, I wasn't thinking what I did was worthy of being striked at all, especially without any confrontation or discussion. There was 0 attempts to address the issue beyond just striking. After this strike, I made a remark something like "Strike reasons be like "I don't like what you said". I was instantly banned for the reason of "complaining" and "not acting like an adult". While I was fine taking the strike for something that I disagree with, "don't be a dick", of which there is a tremendous amount of leeway for certain players or topics, and it is ununiformly enforced, I was not going to submit a complaint because I thought the issue was trivial. So trivial that I made a remark about it, jokingly. For joking about my own punishment I then got a perma ban. I think this is extremely punitive and made no attempts to resolve any problem, if there was one. If anything, this has caused conflict and unneeded strife, and at worst, censorship. Which is totally in the staff's right to do, mind you. It just doesn't seem cool to end my decades long membership in this community over such a thing. Evidence/logs/etc: Additional remarks: None

I think this is a great idea. Often times I find that the current relay channels are really unprofessional and kind of not mature in terms of the way characters talk and act. Often times there's characters that are allegedly in their thirties but act fairly juvenile. While there's a non-SCC channel that should be used for more off the cuff style discussions, even our official SCC brand channel suffers from immaturity. While I don't mean to cast the entire channel(s) into those lights, I find myself not being able to interact in those channels with my main characters. This is because I play fairly straight-laced and buttoned up personas as a Command character main. I know that the act of administering that channel to restrict it to command-only will be more tedious, but I feel like it would be helpful. Especially for things like ongoing events. I don't mean to portray that my character doesn't associate with the "riff raff" but all too often it seems that my character is just in another world comparatively to the conversations going on in the relays.

The intention here was to bring back a lot of FCP style roleplay that was once popular. As in, policy to go alongside roundtypes such as ling, vamp, cult, etc. where there is interaction with any major anomalous activity.

Yeah the whole "R" thing is already a standard nomenclature for cartridges. We shouldn't try to change that as it'll cause confusion.

Would a Command checkpoint make sense?

I agree with the Alden-Saraspova comment being two distinct scientists above.

We have saints working here folks.

If this passes review fine you've got 25USD, contact me on Discord. 5USD outstanding for a check on the records system, if the problem persists in records that is still available.

I believe records also have this issue- anyone care to post an example they find?

More catastrophe apostrophe

In a few spots, we seem to sanitize apostrophes, but when they are displayed, it seems like they are not being properly decoded / surviving sanitization. Is this a viable thing that can be fixed? Maybe a htmldecode type deal? I don't code so I likely may be talking out of my ass. Examples, feel free to post additional: (Fuckup in STT enabled but not in directly writing it in the PDA message field) I'm not sure if this is a decent bounty amount? Anyone care to get a pot going we can, but 30USD is what I can give for this.

As mentioned in this last thread. (Thank you for Arrow to necroing it slightly with the dismissive motion of it not being a formal / actual request) First contact protocol or FCP is something that used to be utilized more often in events such as Ling, Cult, events of canon and noncanon variety, etc. It was very commonly referred to as an additional directive that had some level of secret clearance similar to nuke disc, only known by command. Butter in the last thread fleshed out a more formal statement of this for the SOP which I will reiterate here for a formal addition request. 1. Avoid interference with new species until preliminary assessments have been made. a.) Assess the average intelligence level of the species b.) Assess the technological stage the species currently resides in c.) Assess the disposition of the species d.) Assess the resources available on their homeworld 2. Contact (NBT NTCC Odin Equivalent) and inform them of the discovery, along with preliminary data. 3a. If contact is disallowed, record the system’s galactic coordinates so a different party can arrive and set up observation operations. 3b. If contact is allowed, collect data on the species language and send their leaders a message informing them of Alien presence, alongside peaceful intentions. a.) If reception is positive, prepare an away party of only the most collected and intelligent individuals, as they will not only represent their own species, but the greater Spur as a whole. b.) Provide species with information on the Spur at large, and inform them of (NBT Ship’s Mission)

I will not stand for this casual Martian revisionism

Instead of instant death can we at least give them, say, 10 seconds of dwell time, on mid-level fire, so they can scream on radio? And then they burn up.

I'm kind of neutral on this but leaning against. This would introduce, in my opinion, a lot of bloat to what is otherwise a fairly straightforward concept. Instead of IAC we'll have how many organizations under it- with how many acronyms? It seems excessive.