I say yes!

I don’t remember what the issue was that required the first of those. Probably just looked unseemly.

I DO remember the cause of the second, but it was a minor annoyance more than anything. I’ll let these go if you think we should, Bucky.

The problem I have with the second is that it doesn’t let us rename posts.  (url is permanent; title is not)

Note: glopso’s current vote is invalid, since e made it before becoming an @.

I am an @ now, so my vote is a

The first of these is maybe more of a useful admin guideline that a rule. As I remember, it came in due to inconsistency when dealing with broken or unnecessarily large posts - some admins would just delete the post, others would would blank the post body and replace it with “[spam deleted]”, and some would move the content off to a linked wiki page. (The third is probably clearest, for giving other players a clear record of what happened and whether it was appropriate to delete it.)

It might be worth keeping around to enforce gentlemanly conduct, though. Without this rule, it’d be legal to make non-official posts of “I hereby offer to sell my parrot to any player for 5 gold pieces”, and - when someone’s replied agreeing to this, but without mentioning the price - editing your post to read “7 gold pieces”.

What’s the argument for renaming posts? The trivial argument for not renaming them is that anyone using Alethioscript won’t be able to match the rollover URLs to proposals they remember reading - the rule came in when Wakukee was consistently using his proposal URLs to make little Easter egg comments.

I support any move to detooth Fair Play, at least until the phrase “banning offence” is removed from it.

pie-are-squared?

The direct trigger of the first was when tusho posted an incredibly long blog post; its content was moved to the wiki by an admin after the vote had already been commented on, to stop it breaking the front page. So it seems more focused on admin edits than author edits.

The real problem with the Fair Play rule is that we have no mechanism, short of a ban, for punishing rulebreaking.