Flamingo

Application moving to trial. Trial begun on February 11th, 2019 and will extend for a duration of 1 month, ending on March 11th, 2019.

@ReadThisNamePlz will be contacting you to set up an interview sometime in the near future.

Interview: https://pastebin.com/aXLZwKMG

Trial started as of February 2nd, 2019. It will continue for 1 month until March 2nd, 2019.

Application retracted following applicant request.

Application moving to trial. Trial begun on January 30th, 2019 and will continue for one month until March 2nd, 2019.

@DRagO will be contacting you regarding an interview sometime in the near future.

Interview: https://pastebin.com/8HgG8Fyy

Sounds good. I’ll be lifting the ban shortly. If you have any questions regarding this decision feel free to contact me on the forums or discord. Enjoy. Locking and archiving.

@MelodicVoid Hello. I will be handling your interview. I’ll be contacting you sometime soon on discord.

Apologies for the delay. The staff member who originally applied your ban has retired. As a result, I will be handling this appeal. I am not opposed to lifting this ban. It has been quite some time and you seem to understand why you were banned and want to make amends. I will lift this following acknowledgement that any sort of similar behavior will result in the ban being re-applied immediately. Please respond when you have read this if the terms are acceptable to you. Cheers.

Locking and archiving.

This thread is already being moderated by me. A recommendation for future rule-breaking posts in other threads.

@AmoryBlaine The subject of this complaint is the round bYh-dvce. Forum moderation will be handled separately. Though I encourage you to place reports on rule-breaking forum posts at the time of their posting so they can be handled.

@TrickingTrapster and I have spent some time going through this complaint and have come to a decision. I will try and keep my responses brief. There is no one person that can be blamed for the failure of this round as a whole. Simply put, people make mistakes and sometimes rounds go poorly. This was one of those times. Every one of the mercenaries played a role in how the round progressed and any one of you could have changed the outcome. While hindsight is 20/20, you all have access to AOOC for the purposes of communicating knowledge on a meta-level for the benefit of your chosen gimmick. You could at any time take the reigns and suggest changes to the narrative that you ALL can act on. Pointing fingers and slinging insults is only going to get the both of you punished for breaking the very first rule on our list "Don't be a dick." I am of the honest opinion that while you were both salty in AOOC (and are continuing it on the forums), you both don't require any official punishment right now. That said, if you continue to bicker like this, it's going to come to the point where staff will be forced to take action. Remember that we're all here to have fun. Arguing about how to salvage a bad round isn't going to help anyone. My only advice is this: @AmoryBlaine In the future, if you are to the point where you not longer want to continue playing, but other members would like to, I recommend ahelping so that administrative assistance can be given after they determine whether or not there is enough time left. In this case you've done nothing wrong, but it's general advice that could help in the future. It's perfectly acceptable to want to stop after a salt-inducing round. Aside from that, AOOC is not the place to argue. Take it to PMs if you have something to discuss, or simply don't talk to each other if the discussion isn't civil. Ahelp if you feel someone is not acting as they should in AOOC or making a decision you feel is a breach of the rules, and don't engage. @driecg36 Similar to what I just said, AOOC is not the place to argue, especially after being asked to stop. If you see an issue with someone's conduct, ahelping in the round is vastly preferred to making a character complaint. If said conduct spans multiple rounds, I recommend noting down WHAT rounds they occurred in (the round ID), and taking a screenshot, so that it can be better investigated. I can't look into every single round of every single day to determine "general behavior", I can only look into evidence provided. In this case, the AOOC argument wasn't to the point where I would consider action on behavior alone, and I think you both needed to cool off. I also don't think that Amory's decision to not continue was anything hostile or held any ill-will. Staff even specifically said those who wished to continue could do so, and those who didn't could leave. Trying to suggest that this specific decision by Amory to not want to continue ruined the round when the two of you were both arguing in AOOC for an extended period of time isn't really fair to anyone involved. Ahelp if you feel someone is not acting as they should in AOOC or making a decision you feel is a breach of the rules, and don't engage. I will be locking and archiving this in 24 hours if no other issues arise.

Application accepted following a successful trial.

Apologies for the delay. I’ve been gone for a week. @TrickingTrapster and I will be handling this complaint.

Surprised it took you this long to apply. You have my support.

Trial begun on December 31st, 2018 and will continue for one month until January 31st, 2019.

@Tailsonwill be contacting you about your interview.

I live in America. This. Furthermore, this is in an isolated, high tech workplace where you specifically have security to protect you. This isn’t the middle of the countryside and no one is coming to assist. Nor is it the middle of the city where once the burglar escapes will you likely never see them again, with your personal, irreplaceable belongings.

In your own example, the chef stabs the dude assaulting him. This is fine as if he is holding the knife and the dude starts trying to kill him, it makes sense you’d stab them, and then run away. The problem arises when people take it to mean that you can just keep trying to stab them 15 more times while they hit you back, often with weapons of their own. Even experienced fighters aren’t going to knife fight some dude breaking into their house, because they don’t want to be stabbed. Unless they’re cornered (which is already a viable reason to fight in the rules), it’s a far smarter move to back off and just wait for the police to come and arrest them. The rules reflect this because honestly, being an antag and having to fight 7 different dudes who happen to have something that could pass as a weapon in their bag is really dumb. I feel that the rules as they exist right now already sufficiently cover our general cases, and provide a good outline of when it is and isn’t okay to fight. Administration exists to cover any fringe cases, and in my experience, fringe cases are generally met with a “in the future don’t do this thanks” and not a ban. Your thoughts?

Application accepted following a successful trial. Welcome (back) to the team.

Application denied. Applicant was informed of feedback. Feel free to contact me directly if you have additional questions or concerns.

I like the sound of this. Will any species be allowed to respond during a crisis? My thoughts mostly rest on dionaea, being slow and very resilient to damage.