[Admin & DO] Adjust i107: Misuse of Public Radio Channels

[Snakebittenn]

The letter of the law is "To continually broadcast unimportant, untrue, or insignificant messages on the public radio frequency." which is vague as fuck

The intent of the law is "This is really only for people who are constantly spamming the radio, such as 'DJs' or Chaplains reading their services over the comms. Screaming fake messages like "halp security is beating me" when they aren't also counts." which is never remembered

The use is neither of those. Often I see this reg brought up in mostly the following situations.

-Coworkers roasting each other

-A harmless conversation that the HoS doesn't want to hear

-Cats meowing

To me, like suspicious conduct, I don't see the reason we have this regulation in it's current state. It's very much just a tool for security to shit on you if they please. If it's code green, getting caught for this should be borderline unthinkable unless you're literally spamming the radio with WGW.

[Skull132]

[mention]ForgottenTraveller[/mention] + admins plz.

[Rushodan]

This sounds like more of an issue of the regulation being mis-applied, which does happen quite a lot. Please remember that your characters are not reading text when using the radios, they are actually hearing people talking. If you have ever worked a job where radios are used frequently, they are not there for idle chatter. They are there for important and relevant information regarding the work you are currently doing.

Within the station, think about some people idly chatting about rubbish over the radios. This could lead to important messages being missed, requests not heard etc. To avoid problems in the future, keep personal messages to PDAs - they have a messenger for a reason. Im pretty sure you can also make chat rooms too.

Also, if you are asked or warned to stop using the radios for idle chatter and you do not stop, do not be surprised when security come knocking.

[ForgottenTraveller]

Shodan has it pretty bang on.

You can also use the entertainment channel to talk on, or anyone not in use by a department or common.

And in addition the asked or warned bit, for sec to come a knocking that needs to be given by a command member. And that could possibly be a disobeying a valid order, or the extreme version of that, if you are drowning out critical information.

And while non command cannot order you to cut chatter, if they have a good reason to ask it, like critical operations. Just because you don't have too, does not make you not an ass if you do, and possibly liable for harm like in the case above, that could go through an IAA, or higher.

[Garnascus]

I think the threat of abuse of comms is used way more than people are actually arrested? Its not practical in most cases. Not much i can say on this topic that hasnt been covered by FT or shodan. I do think we need this regulation.

[Scheveningen]

Like many of the other policy suggestions, I do not see a need to change the regulation based on how it is being used. Instead, scrutiny needs to be held under the sight lens of each officer that is misusing this regulation for their own personal advantage. Players can take part in this by two ways:

1.) If has so far only been an IC threat or a minor enforcement of the regulation, tattle on them with the IAA, the captain, or the DOs. Especially the last one, the DOs do not get enough work nowadays to warrant existing, partly as a failure of the community for not using the DOs as an IC outlet to an IC issue.

2.) If it goes above that, tell an admin of shitcurity. If the issue is that bad, the security player in question will get chewed out without remorse.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

How often is this really abused? I've only seen 1 - 2 people arrested for abuse of comms in a month. What benefits do we gain from removing this other than a lack of ability to enforce radio civility and professionalism? If we remove this, we'll jsut see t-comms being shut off more.

[Shadow]

Administration voted and decided that we won't remove the regulation.

Will be locked and archived.