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Player Offences
1. Gamethrowing
Description: Any play wittingly and willingly going against one's win condition falls under gamethrowing.
Type: Severe
Subcategories:
1.1) Reactionary Gamethrowing
Description: Gamethrowing due to frustration with in-game happenings.
First Offence Punishment: One-month ban, or two-game ban.
Second Offence Punishment: Permanent ban from Forum Mafia.
Third Offence Punishment: Permanent ban from games.
2.2) Attempted Gamethrowing
First Offence Punishment: Two-month ban, or four-game ban.
Second Offence Punishment: Permanent ban from Forum Mafia.
3.3) Intentional Gamethrowing
First Offence Punishment: Four-month ban, or 6-game ban.
Second Offence Punishment: Permanent ban from Forum Mafia.
Notes: Players that have been punished for gamethrowing may not participate in the ongoing S-FM Ladder, nor any full-fledged FMs, for up to twice their ban duration.
2. Griefing
Type: Mild
Description: Severe, game-ruining trolling.
First Offence Punishment: One-game ban. Point reduction in ladder.
Second Offence Punishment: Two-month ban, or four-game ban. Barred from participating in ladder.
Third Offence Punishment: Four-month ban.
Fourth Offence Punishment: Permanent ban from Forum Mafia.
3. Belligerence
Type: Severe
Description: Being an intentional ass to other players (i.e., insulting them in-game. Some insults can, to some extent, be acceptable).
First Offence Punishment: Two-month ban. Point reduction in ladder.
Second Offence Punishment: Six-month ban.
4. Skyping
Type: Grave
Description: Don't Skype.
First Offence Punishment: Six-month ban.
Second Offence Punishment: Permanent ban.
Suggest an alternative.
Perhaps it would be better to have punishment be based on allowance into games for a set timeframe.
Or a set number of games.
Before I write anything up, what exactly is the issue???
I played a game a few weeks ago with very few issues, then hosted a game which didn't have any issues.
@Damus_Graves
Like, what exact situation caused you to want to make this thread?
I am fairly ignorant to what this thread is talking about, because I've only had 2 interactions with the player base within my memory and both have been very positive.
I don't want to speak on an ongoing game really, but it seems like the drama centered around players that are not really regulars on this site.
Once again, I don't really know much about what has been going on in FMs except for the 2 games I participated in, so I'm not very educated on the subject. I feel that it's quite unfair to base a thread around an incident that occurred with members that are not a regular part of the current playerbase, yet you are pushing for a change in the playerbase. If members of the site think situations like this are common, then yes, something needs to be done.
But, I think it should be the community itself doing the policing.
I think the entire FM section should be run by the community, with a few volunteers reading setups. By this, I mean that anyone should be allowed to post a signup whenever (no queue), and whether or not it gets signups dictates if it gets played or not. No one enjoys the communism.
The same logic should apply to the players. If, as a host, I do not like a specific player due to his playstyles, common inactivity, etc, then I should be free to exclude that player from my game. Also, if a player does not wish to play with another player due to in-game reasons, then they can boycott the game; if enough players boycott a game because of a person, the host can decide to exclude that player. This will result in either the excluded player to become really toxic and quit the site due to embarrassment, or to realize they are being a douchebag and try to play nicer with others.
Obviously, there are things like cheating, gamethrowing, and extreme personal attacks which need to be handled by staff (use report function!!!!!). These types should be given a site ban. It's a toxicity that will show itself in more areas than just Forum Mafia.
All of ^ combined with players consciously trying to post less & more meaningful posts, most of the issues would be solved.
Frag got modkill
And freg didn't do anything wrong
Enough. We will discuss after the game