Pitboss 2 - Time Out

[Krill]

I'm mostly concerned about the spoiler implications of lurkers, but posters that only lurk a single thread can't logically come under than purview. Their handling would be best left to the players that make up the team...after all, if there is one poster that is disrupting that team, then the team should be within their rights to ask him or her to stop posting in their thread. But that is a different topic entirely.

[Kylearan]

Hi,

But it seems like we were seeing a lot of things with lurkers posting "Well, what about this scenario?" or "Why not do it this way?" -- which most often with high caliber players isn't going to be a spoiler, but what if it was? What if someone just made a big gaffe or overlooked something simple that just affected the game?

Then we go "whoops, oh well, we'll try to be smarter next time" and play on.

While I agree with your previous post about us please not adopting Bureaucracy, I also share Pindicator's concern. If I would play such a game against you, and after the game found out lurkers pointed out mistakes or additional options to you, I felt cheated and disappointed. My goal is to beat you, not you and a bunch of other people I only learn about after the game helping you out.

I would even did not want lurkers to point out mistakes in my plans! If in the end I beat you, the victory wouldn't feel completely satisfactory - did I beat you because my gameplay was better than yours, or would I have maybe lost the game if that lurker didn't point out the error in my plan to complete that wonder in time...? (And yes, we all do believe in small things significantly affecting the chance of winning the game, otherwise we all wouldn't micromanage so much!)

This wouldn't matter much if we only played just to kill time, entertain the audience and chat with lurkers, but I know some players have a very competitive approach to this game (which is fine of course).

Now I don't participate in these games so my opinion obviously doesn't (and shouldn't) really matter, but I wanted to point out a possible problem with the relaxed approach.

-Kylearan

[Ruff_Hi]

just for reference, since various people are quoting my code of conduct ... this is what I have posted in my Rapoleon_Hi (pb#3) thread ...

As you saw in the voting thread, I proposed a Lurker's Code of Conduct (LCoC). This suggestion was voted down. So, am I going to have a private LCoC? Yes I am! Is it going to be what was proposed - no way ... why should I limit my lurkers by having a private one when other teams aren't!

So, here is my [SIZE="4"]Lurker's Code of Conduct[/SIZE] ...

1. when I win - I don't want anyone to say I only won because I had lurker spoiler information
   
2. no giving away my plans to the other teams
   
3. no giving away their plans to me
   
4. don't make me haunt you if you wreck my game
   
5. don't make another team haunt you for wrecking their game
   
6. will your actions stand up once the spoiler threads are uncovered?
   
7. what would you say if a player to come back at you with one of these questions / comments ...
   • "Why did you tell so-and-so our plans?"
     
   • "So-and-so never saw that coming until you told them"
     
   • "It was perfect, I had completely fooled them ... until you wrecked it all by bring it to their attention"
     

And, by the way, if you post here or if you post in the 'RBP3 Lurker Discussion Thread - No Players!' thread about Rapoleon_Hi of the Aztecs, then you have signified your agreement to abide by the above LCoC.

Now comes the fun part ... who will police this LCoC? Well, it won't be me ... too busy playing! It will be you ... the lurkers. If you think that a lurker has broken the above LCoC then feel free to lambaste them in the lurker thread. I don't have email notification on, so jumping back to a spoiler post and editing it should save a lurker's bacon .