Goblin and Coins back to school '19 community event (ended)

way bigger games than yours still have really crappy stretched small old boxart (so, that's the name).

but... (real reason of this comment) have you read last cg update? cause, while reading it, i've immediately thought about you and our Goblins and Coins (this thread title included)

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I'm just so happy it's not me who has to make the rules. More accurate rules just mean more and more rules, and someone still slipping through the cracks, so more rules. . It's very hard to be logical and at the same time, fair with the rules.

My issue with the new rules thread is people are very much deep diving, then there are a few others who are doing a "catch all". You can't have both, you either go comprehensive or you do a bunch of catch all's. When you start being specific, unless you want to write 300 page legislation you are going to miss things.

For example, let's take the "don't be a dick" rule, which basically says don't be racist, sexist, homophobic etc. I think in a normal world most people understand that rule and can abide by it. However, there are people who are going "well what about X" which tbh, is correct on the one hand as it doesn't specifically mention X and there are other rules which are more generic catch alls. The issue then becomes, do you open pandora's box of a list as big as your arm of things we now need to mention as to what is "not" ok. Does someone post something quite obscure, but clearly awful but it's not in the "rules" so its "ok", even though everyone in the world knows that its not ok. Then on the flip side you have people who do something quite innocuous but its part of a catch all rule so it gets banned.

I think we as a community need to meet half way, both the moderators/CG and the community at large. We used to be pretty decent at policing ourselves, someone new posted something that wasn't allowed, we just said "hey that's not allowed". We all knew where the lines were most of the time.

I've read a few things I missed over the year or so of inactivity and couldn't believe the lack of common sense we now seem to have adopted. If we try and then break it down into "lets list everything right and not right" it becomes a minefield of do's and do not's that will leave mods with the impossible task of not being able to punish clear misdeeds without it becoming a rule and vice versa the community not knowing what is ok and what isn't.

Do I have a solution? Absolutely not. All I know is at the minute things are going to be difficult for all, I'm definitely in favour of new rules, they've been needed for a long time. The implementation of them needs to be done in a way which is consistent across the board and everyone needs to get on board with it straight away.

We can all make each others lives easy here, I think things like your events are a great example of "lets use common sense here" and just let it slide. It's not like you've come in after the rules and decided to try and make money off this. Are we really going to turn down say EA coming in and offering the site loads of money to run a competition? What if CD Projekt Red offer 100's of copies of their new games, are we going to turn down great games because rules are rules?

Any rule we make or want should be for the improvement of the community at large on both sides, anything that makes that process more difficult for mods or people involved in making the community better should be left behind.

Edit: Wording was awful....