✗PROBLEMS

[berryfloss]

P R O B L E M S

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Comments

[des-butterfly.livejournal.com]

I'm a little concerned about how many times poly issues have been popping up on roleplaysecrets and in anon comments there, and at how crude and mean spirited some of the secrets and comments can be sometimes.

Perhaps the comm needs a gentle reminder that mun to mun communication is always preferred over making nasty secrets and anon statements? It's just something that's disturbing me more and more lately. I want poly to be a place of classy people, not bitchy anons.

Any ideas on what can be done?

[berryfloss.livejournal.com]

While we acknowledge that it's unfortunate people's feelings can be hurt by anonymous comments and by things said on other communities outside the realm of constructive criticism, we regret that our roles as POLYchromatic moderators cannot extend outside of our direct purview, which is POLYchromatic.

It has always been our policy that we cannot, and should not, try to police or monitor other communities because we are POLYchromatic's moderators, and not the moderators of any other communities.

However, we do stress player to player communication in our community rules and in what we advise players to read upon acceptance. Our acceptance stamp requests that players familiarize themselves with our infosite. There, we repeatedly encourage (http://polychromatic-rp.info/gameplay-communication.html) communication as the primary form of working things out, both IC and OOC. In all of our guides to complaint filing, (harassment (http://polychromatic-rp.info/complaints-harassment.html), godmodding (http://polychromatic-rp.info/complaints-godmodding.html), inactivity (http://polychromatic-rp.info/complaints-inactivity.html), godmodding/infomodding (http://polychromatic-rp.info/complaints-infomodding.html), OOC behavior (http://polychromatic-rp.info/complaints-oocness.html), and powergaming (http://polychromatic-rp.info/complaints-powergaming.html)) we both stress that players try communication among themselves first before going to moderators or other means, and also note that we do ask if you have communicated with other players when complaints are brought to our attention.

All in all, we do strongly encourage players to utilize direct communication, and that always will be our stance. However, we cannot force a player to do so, nor convince everyone that it's better for the game and all players to talk things out rather than employ RP!S or like communities as a venue for their opinions and frustrations. If we make a public post in the main community reiterating what has been our stance all along, we give more power to anon than anon already has.