there is a private list system going on at AC in OOT?

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Donkey Hotay [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Here's more of that forum cognitive dissonance, I see.

Why does the camper, when his camp is complete and he has the camped object, get to choose who gets pixels next. What is the value there beyond "well now the GMs won't get called". Also lol @Loramin for immediately suggesting that you should call the GMs when the campers are doing exactly what the current system explicitly (and to my mind, inexplicably) allows them to do.

Look, here's the thing: there is no "current system" ... or at least, not in the sense of a purposefuly constructed one. There's simply some volunteer staff members making whatever very minimal rulings they can to keep things fun (again, minimal to keep their lives as volunteers sane), and then there's what happens "on the ground" as a consequence.

But the crucial piece you're missing is that at any instant the staff can change things, because NOTHING in the "camp rules" is set in stone! In fact, technically, nothing in the Play Nice Policies is either ... but the staff generally tries to avoid changing that.

And this is not just a hypothetical: we have a mountain of historical cases where the staff became unhappy with "what was happening on the ground", and changed the rules ... and it's called the Camp Rules page [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] The "rules" or "system" of the server was one thing one day ... then a player petitioned something they thought was wrong ... a GM showed up ... someone (the GM or the player) reported it in the forum ... and the next day the server had a new system/rules.

So if you assume the staff wants anything bad in the game to stay that way indefinitely, you've misunderstood their limits as volunteers for a willfull desire to preserve the status quo. If you then refuse to petition in a clearly wrong situation (remember: the only true/universal rule here is "don't be a dick") ... because your imagination predicts that they inexplicably want things to stay wrong and terrible here ... the only one who loses out is you.