Failcakes

"Why are whitelists necessary?"

That's not the suggestion at all though.

So let's take a look at this list. Notice something? That's right! AI is not behind a whitelist. AI is a role that could quite easily screw up a player's round, incredibly easily, even more so than any incompetent head. The same can be said for cyborgs. They have the access, they have the capability, they have the power. The station AI is the one the players go to when there's no head onboard, to help them deal with issues that otherwise only a head could solve, so, why is it that AI isn't behind a roadblock, while the department head is? I can't tell you how many rounds I've played, where due to a lack of a chief engineer, I had to get the AI to open up secure storage for me, and this isn't just on Aurora, this is on every station. I mean yeah, I get that there's supposedly a heavy roleplay element to this server, but, that quite simply only exists when the players allow it, and last night I saw someone dragging an unathi around the floors, with the unathi claiming they were a mop. Granted, one of the catbeasts would have made a much better floor cleaning implement, but I DIGRESS, there's a level of silliness to this station, that just, quite simply, doesn't really demand the level of oversight that you have. There's constantly, multiple secondary admins on, several fullmins, you have enough moderation that the stopgap of "We need to whitelist the important bits" isn't really necessary, because if someone's a bad head? Well, there's in character ways to go about dealing with them, internal affairs, security, faxing central to figure out if they're acting outside their boundaries, the whole nine yards. As a community, I kind of feel like this server doesn't really need the whitelist system, at least for heads of staff. Now, for the alien roles? Yeah, makes sense, you want people to have read the lore in place for those, and you want to make sure they're at least vaguely within the boundaries of such, I mean everyone knows that the unathi are from a proud race of janitor snails that live in lockers, yeah? But seriously, you have enough moderation on staff to handle people being shits with their advanced roles. And the players can dunk the rest. If you're going to have the keys to the castle open to John Q. Public and his merry band of misfits for the station AI, the thing that can release the singularity, shock every door, flood the station with plasma, bolt people into arrivals, herd the crew like cats into a tiny room and then suck all the air out, slowly, or just in general be an absolute round ruiner the moment someone even so much as thinks about touching their laws, it doesn't make sense to me that the job types that exist to have the access and the authority to be the counter to that are restricted.

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