Admin Thread for WW LXXVIII: Yar Har Har and a Bottle o' Rum

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Rikae

Well, at any rate, Nerwen, I think one crucial difference is that the tinkering you did in your game was out in the open for all players to see. What happened here was that I complained by PM to Paranoia about the way he did the narration, which I thought already broke a few unspoken "rules" of BD WW, and he responded with encouragement not to give up and the revelation of a certain gifted's role (\not even a confirmation of a guess I made or anything, but new information altogether). He also revealed that he had been planning to treat the cobbler role differently than expected without mentioning it - not cool in my book, since the village couldn't take this into consideration.

So clearly I couldn't keep playing with this additional unearned knowledge - any victory would be stripped of all honor. It's a shame, since I was quite enjoying this game and I hate to let my team down, but without a level playing field (or an uneven playing field everyone knows about) there can't be a real game.

Oh, I agree– you can't have the mod telling players each others' roles just on a whim like that. But all the same, it occurred to me that Para might have got the idea from the last game that it's how we do things here.

Originally Posted by Rikae

Someone (who can step forward if/when they like) mentioned to me that we should have a minimum number of games a person must play before being allowed to be a mod, and I think this is an excellent idea.

Agreed; that could save us a lot of grief in future.

Originally Posted by Rikae

It could just be that he's sulking/hiding because of the controversy - in fact, it seems most likely to me, especially since he already nearly left the 'downs in the last game. Not very responsible modding, but what can you say.

All right, but you're going to feel pretty bad if it turns out he was run over by a bus or something. I'm just saying...