Draft community guidelines
After reviewing the Break thread, holding discussions on various fora, and taking contributions on the wiki, I’ve drawn up a rough draft of what our community guidelines could look like.
They are here; please do take a look and review.
I think that they should be linked to in fair play (“All players should be aware of, and commit to, upholding the [[community guidelines]]” or similar) and should be linked to somewhere in the sidebar.
These are not presented here as finished work - I hope that reviewers will continue to have input and won’t put it up for proposal for 48 hours at least, so it has the opportunity to be discussed as needed. I would particularly welcome the thoughts of those members who are sceptical about this effort - whether they think that the document can add value, and how to construct it in a way to ensure that it does meaningfully help the game and the people playing it.
Madrid:
My review:
Statement of Purpose: I like it.
Guidelines for play:
- Rhythm point: I like it.
- Optimizing point: I also like it but I also don’t know how we could realistically solve it for some situations. For example, the moment a Proposal is enacted is sometimes incredibly important.
- Health of the game: I like it and I agree with it.
- Respect other player’s plays: I agree with where it’s going, that we should be civil with stuff like this, but not how far it seems to go in that direction. I believe discussion regarding this should be allowed to be pretty open, because given how the air of BN varies a lot depending on what players are active at the time, I don’t believe that it’s going to be realistically possible to have everyone agree on what is noble nomicing, and what isn’t.
Basically, I don’t want people to shy away from pointing out plays that make them uncomfortable our of fear of ‘not respecting other player’s plays’.
For example, I find Core Rule scams to be admirable displays of finesse and skill that should be around, but there are some that disagree and believe that they aren’t healthy for the game. And that’s fine.
- The BlogNomic community is largely competitive: I also like this one.