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by Arianya
Tue Oct 01, 2019 10:30 am
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Update to rule 1.
Replies: 187
Views: 61167

Re: Update to rule 1.

Lol, exactly how many of your term's rule changes or policy rulings were put to poll, Nervere? Attack the point, and not the person. In other words, stop shitposting, forum mod. Edit: Additionally, if you're going to moderate posts, and ignore oranges shitposting on every single thread that would o...
by Arianya
Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:39 am
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Update to rule 1.
Replies: 187
Views: 61167

Re: Update to rule 1.

Lol, exactly how many of your term's rule changes or policy rulings were put to poll, Nervere?
by Arianya
Sat Sep 28, 2019 12:00 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Arianya] Week ban without warning or a bwoink
Replies: 8
Views: 4426

Re: [Arianya] Week ban without warning or a bwoink

Feel free to provide an argument as to how you weren't being a dick, but so far I remain unconvinced. Im trying to make a point that the ban was dumb and being affected by 7 lines of text on a screen and thinking that's good enough to ban someone for a week is stupid. If anything you're being the d...
by Arianya
Fri Sep 27, 2019 11:41 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Arianya] Week ban without warning or a bwoink
Replies: 8
Views: 4426

Re: [Arianya] Week ban without warning or a bwoink

A warning is not something that you've got a god given right to, especially when I don't have any reason to believe that you're acting in even misguided good faith. To start, you said: OOC: Dootdoom: oh shit Cynic is on OOC: Dootdoom: time to say it Followed by the part you quoted in your appeal spl...
by Arianya
Fri Sep 27, 2019 10:11 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Enforce higher expectations for heads of staff and security roles
Replies: 112
Views: 22783

Re: Enforce higher expectations for heads of staff and security roles

terranaut wrote:
oranges wrote:itt, a bunch of greytiders continue to wonder why nobody wants to play headroles when they're around
take me off post approval for the development board or i'll have you put on post approval in FNR for shitposting
Bold of you to assume, etc.
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by Arianya
Fri Sep 27, 2019 9:41 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Coconutwarrior87]Killed a clown as a non-antag to keep order
Replies: 8
Views: 2321

Re: [Coconutwarrior87]Killed a clown as a non-antag to keep order

The actual timezone of the game servers is GMT+0 (UTC) - you can use this handy dandy link to check: https://time.is/GMT
by Arianya
Thu Sep 26, 2019 11:25 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [COIAX] CPTANT - note appeal, asimov killing non human for spacing human
Replies: 14
Views: 4228

Re: [COIAX] CPTANT - note appeal, asimov killing non human for spacing human

I left this one a little longer since the headmin swap over happened in the middle of this month but since the banning admin has denied it and the new headmins don't appear to want to overrule, resolved.
by Arianya
Thu Sep 26, 2019 11:22 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [IvanIsaacs] Ivan is a cunt
Replies: 8
Views: 3640

Re: [IvanIsaacs] Ivan is a cunt

For posterity, full ban reason: Banned from the server for 1440 minutes - Set off a suicide bomb after the Captain had detained him. Allegedly beleived the AI had been subverted and therefore the Captain was valid because he didnt know the AI's lawset. Suicide bombs are not your first resort when pr...
by Arianya
Wed Sep 25, 2019 8:26 pm
Forum: Coding
Topic: Code Bounty: Var Editable Timestop
Replies: 7
Views: 2152

Re: Code Bounty: Var Editable Timestop

That looks ace, so it's fine by me to keep.

Obviously oranges/maintainers might not like the effect, so if they express disapproval it's fine to PR it without.
by Arianya
Wed Sep 25, 2019 7:07 pm
Forum: Coding
Topic: Code Bounty: Var Editable Timestop
Replies: 7
Views: 2152

Re: Code Bounty: Var Editable Timestop

As a bonus I also made it so it visually freezes affected turfs and machinery, although mechanically the only effect is that it prevents them from being dragged. As well as obscuring light fixtures, because apparently it behaves as if they were sprayed on due to the atom color change. Let me know i...
by Arianya
Wed Sep 25, 2019 9:25 am
Forum: Coding
Topic: Code Bounty: Var Editable Timestop
Replies: 7
Views: 2152

Code Bounty: Var Editable Timestop

Putting up a £10 GBP/$12 USD/$16 CAD (claimer's preference via paypal or steam game equivalent) code bounty to modify the timestop spell to be var editable. Currently, the timestop spell is hard coded to be a 3x3, and the duration is similarly hard coded to be 5 seconds. I would like this changed, s...
by Arianya
Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:59 pm
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Trialmin Review: Cynic716
Replies: 47
Views: 13077

Re: Trialmin Review: Cynic716

Without being untoward, I would say that you could replace cynic's name on the above post with several other prominent user's names and it would be seen as pretty standard for /tg/ - and certainly not "emotional". Would those prominent users be considered for a gamemin spot? I can think o...
by Arianya
Tue Sep 24, 2019 1:03 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Ashwalker SHOULD be allowed to raid the station (with maybe some nerfs...)
Replies: 35
Views: 9704

Re: Ashwalker SHOULD be allowed to raid the station (with maybe some nerfs...)

Honestly just stop trying to turn the lavaland roles into "Mom said it was my turn to antag!!" By all means, massacre the miners, draw penises on their mining station, lure a megafauna to turn it into a wasteland, but stop trying to get on station so you can justifiably murder people. At t...
by Arianya
Tue Sep 24, 2019 11:27 am
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Trialmin Review: Cynic716
Replies: 47
Views: 13077

Re: Trialmin Review: Cynic716

Real goddamn ballsy of Ner "trannies are mentally ill" vere to come in and talk shit. Btw the minecraft bee thing has NOTHING to do with the stupid fictional bee, people were actively joking about trans suicide. Something I find really goddamn gross, and thus started calling them out for....
by Arianya
Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:39 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Fixing server culture with policy
Replies: 66
Views: 17365

Re: Fixing server culture with policy

this is like the textbook definition of a bad policy thread because it's just going "sip remember the good old days" without any actual concrete suggestions. The closest the OP comes to making suggestions are "rule 10 exists!!" which is basically meaningless and "enforce rul...
by Arianya
Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:16 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [MortoSasye] Ambassador Magikarp - [Witty Repukan title]
Replies: 13
Views: 3643

Re: [MortoSasye] Ambassador Magikarp - [Witty Repukan title]

As a general precedent, silicons with lawsets that treat the majority of crew as non-human but do not have other overriding commands or laws to do a particular thing have been treated as purged, including the purged rule of not going on killing sprees for no reason. Given that everyone except the mi...
by Arianya
Mon Sep 23, 2019 5:08 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Discord - only #coding-general] Arathian
Replies: 2
Views: 961

Re: [Discord - only #coding-general] Arathian

This isn't an admin matter, and the power exercised by oranges isn't an administrative one (he isn't an admin at time of writing) - the codebase has the express right (as noted by MSO) to block whoever they like from their discussion channels, whether that's #coding-general on Discord or the coding ...
by Arianya
Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:26 pm
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Trialmin Review: Cynic716
Replies: 47
Views: 13077

Re: Trialmin Review: Cynic716

There is nothing wrong with backing your stance, and you shouldn't expect people to just take openly derogatory languages or insults lying down. Insult them back. It crosses the line when you use your admeme powers to punish something that shouldn't be punished. I will never blame a mod for telling...
by Arianya
Sat Sep 21, 2019 1:15 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Borg head revs converting people
Replies: 27
Views: 6440

Re: Borg head revs converting people

Yeah, borgs probbably shouuldn't be converting with their flashes, codewise. Regardless, I wouldn't see an issue with this so long as the borg was otherwise following its laws - that means obeying law 2 orders (including "Don't flash people"), and preventing human harm even if it's a head ...
by Arianya
Thu Sep 19, 2019 8:34 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Ignoring/looting dead people in medbay
Replies: 50
Views: 12107

Re: Ignoring/looting dead people in medbay

Generally people who are dead are held to need their gear less then the living. That doesn't mean "full strip everyone you see just to be a jerk" but if you need their access to do x or you need something they have to survive/stay safe (i.e. oxygen in a swiss cheese station, gun in a stati...
by Arianya
Thu Sep 19, 2019 7:50 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [<NecromancerAnne>] <Sterscram> - Banned for Admin not reading/understanding
Replies: 10
Views: 2387

Re: [<NecromancerAnne>] <Sterscram> - Banned for Admin not reading/understanding

Out of a mixture of boredom and curiosity, I fetched the ahelp logs. Logs acquired from: https://tgstation13.org/raw-logs/sybil/data/logs/2019/09/19/round-119602/game.log (non-admins won't be able to access) Rules used to filter: Filter by "ADMINPRIVATE: PM:" Filter by "Sterscram"...
by Arianya
Wed Sep 18, 2019 6:30 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: THE TOOLBOX TRY-OUTS
Replies: 25
Views: 7233

Re: THE TOOLBOX TRY-OUTS

I'll give you £5 to take someone on your team who isn't actually allowed to hit anyone and can only shake people up or give CPR
by Arianya
Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:53 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Re-Enable Drones
Replies: 43
Views: 10814

Re: Re-Enable Drones

Damage is meant to be difficult to repair though. If medbay is a crater every round then perhaps the issue isn't that there are no drones, but that there's too many ways to make it a crater/those ways are too easy. Limiting !fun! is not the way to make the game more, you know, actually fun. Having ...
by Arianya
Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:48 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Enforce higher expectations for heads of staff and security roles
Replies: 112
Views: 22783

Re: Enforce higher expectations for heads of staff and security roles

It doesn't take clairvoyance to say that restricting a role to people who have the motivation to do out of game forms/admin approval/whatever is going to drastically reduce the number of available players for that role. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is opinion, really, but what gameplay...
by Arianya
Tue Sep 17, 2019 6:58 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Re-Enable Drones
Replies: 43
Views: 10814

Re: Re-Enable Drones

Damage is meant to be difficult to repair though. If medbay is a crater every round then perhaps the issue isn't that there are no drones, but that there's too many ways to make it a crater/those ways are too easy.
by Arianya
Tue Sep 17, 2019 6:29 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Re-Enable Drones
Replies: 43
Views: 10814

Re: Re-Enable Drones

What do drones actually add to the gameplay experience though? They're either an annoying pest underfoot stealing materials/hats/others or off in some remote corner building an autism fort and screaming in deadchat when they get blown up because of other drones actions. It's a on-station role not me...
by Arianya
Tue Sep 17, 2019 6:26 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Enforce higher expectations for heads of staff and security roles
Replies: 112
Views: 22783

Re: Enforce higher expectations for heads of staff and security roles

In general, the server culture in general has been against whitelisting. I'm also not sure whitelisting would help us have head of staff coverage.
by Arianya
Sun Sep 15, 2019 11:24 pm
Forum: Events Workshop
Topic: /tg/station Toolbox Charity Tournament 2.0
Replies: 29
Views: 113020

Re: /tg/station Toolbox Charity Tournament 2.0

I'm happy to throw in some game keys I might have spare, if you need something for a potential prize pool.
by Arianya
Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:31 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Why don't admins ever respond to Centcomm messages
Replies: 23
Views: 5315

Re: Why don't admins ever respond to Centcomm messages

In addition to the other stuff, Centcomm messages, much like prayers are very much a question of what's in the message itself.

If your centcomm message/prayer is something like "gib stuff"/"gib antag"/etc then I'm probably just going to ignore it.
by Arianya
Thu Sep 12, 2019 9:27 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [DISCORD] Gregory#1799
Replies: 1
Views: 698

Re: [DISCORD] Gregory#1799

Hulk and Nerv okayed me taking this over. As you've apologized for what got you banned, I've removed your ban. Please don't abuse role pings for jokes/memes - the role exists to ensure people can get help when they need it and misusing the ping results in fewer admins wearing the tag or tuning out t...
by Arianya
Thu Sep 12, 2019 7:42 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [dinklenh] Arathian - Note Appeal for borging corpse
Replies: 13
Views: 3370

Re: [dinklenh] Arathian - Note Appeal for borging corpse

with the fact that just before you left you suicided instead of letting me put a ghost in your body I am still unclear why this is a major issue for you. I had a problem at work. I informed you I had to go. If you wanted to put my body into some other ghost, there is an admin resurrect that clears ...
by Arianya
Sun Sep 08, 2019 3:53 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Can the AI harm harmful non humans?
Replies: 50
Views: 9766

Re: Can the AI harm harmful non humans?

The bigger point here is that Silicons should in general not be punishing past harm under their laws - only preventing future harm. We already have this in policy in regards to Security harming people and Silicons wanting to lock them down/ignoring their law 2 orders - Silicons can't punish Securit...
by Arianya
Sun Sep 08, 2019 3:17 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Can the AI harm harmful non humans?
Replies: 50
Views: 9766

Re: Can the AI harm harmful non humans?

The bigger point here is that Silicons should in general not be punishing past harm under their laws - only preventing future harm. We already have this in policy in regards to Security harming people and Silicons wanting to lock them down/ignoring their law 2 orders - Silicons can't punish Security...
by Arianya
Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:46 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Escalation against security falsely arresting you
Replies: 59
Views: 13915

Re: Escalation against security falsely arresting you

I'm impressed that you posted a story that you think is a deathblow against this rule but in fact is the exact reason we have this rule.
by Arianya
Sat Sep 07, 2019 12:28 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Thunder12345] PolishUser - Innocent perma removal server ban/jobban
Replies: 11
Views: 3306

Re: [Thunder12345] PolishUser - Innocent perma removal server ban/jobban

You're correct in that it wasn't a "big deal" - a big deal would have resulted in a much longer server ban and possibly a permanent role ban from scientist. As bomb related bans go this is pretty much a slap on the wrist. Realistically this is a pretty clear cut part of how we enforce the ...
by Arianya
Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:28 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Thunder12345] PolishUser - Innocent perma removal server ban/jobban
Replies: 11
Views: 3306

Re: [Thunder12345] PolishUser - Innocent perma removal server ban/jobban

snip That's correct, maybe isn't going to reduce the hole, which others would perhaps have to deal with, since it may seem that you've missed one point, that the shuttle was on the way to the station. I don't remember how long it was until it's arrival but I can guarantee you that it clearly was un...
by Arianya
Fri Sep 06, 2019 10:50 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Thunder12345] PolishUser - Innocent perma removal server ban/jobban
Replies: 11
Views: 3306

Re: [Thunder12345] PolishUser - Innocent perma removal server ban/jobban

Thunder has asked for this to be picked up in their absence as they're unavailable. I've looked through the relevant logs and I can't see any good reason to remove this note or the remaining couple of day or so of role ban. As a general rule, we don't care if someone has ahelped something or not - r...
by Arianya
Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:07 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Booktower] Istoprocent - Unjustified Note Appeal
Replies: 28
Views: 7570

Re: [Booktower] Istoprocent - Unjustified Note Appeal

"Character witnesses" are not peanut policy compliant, whether they are good or bad for the banned person or anyone else involved in the ban. The peanut posting rule remains very simple: If you were not directly involved in the incident, or citing a rule or policy precedent, then you shoul...
by Arianya
Mon Aug 26, 2019 12:15 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Addendum to Rule 4
Replies: 42
Views: 10055

Re: Addendum to Rule 4

The actual answer to your question is that acting like an antag is by it's nature an imprecise condition and people are sometimes going to jump to conclusions about what is antagonistic behaviour. Creating a "to the letter" description of what is antagonistic behaviour would just enable p...
by Arianya
Mon Aug 26, 2019 9:40 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Addendum to Rule 4
Replies: 42
Views: 10055

Re: Addendum to Rule 4

That "double standard" exists because Security has MASSIVE benefits over random assistants, from their starting gear to their place in a (usually) 100% trusting team that will back them up if they get in trouble. You understand that this is one of the reasons why nobody plays security any...
by Arianya
Sun Aug 25, 2019 8:16 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Addendum to Rule 4
Replies: 42
Views: 10055

Re: Addendum to Rule 4

That "double standard" exists because Security has MASSIVE benefits over random assistants, from their starting gear to their place in a (usually) 100% trusting team that will back them up if they get in trouble. Anyway, my understanding was that your issue wasn't any kind of double standa...
by Arianya
Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:02 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Addendum to Rule 4
Replies: 42
Views: 10055

Re: Addendum to Rule 4

I agree with this proposal, not because I think it makes the game better, but because it is what admins actually enforce changing the rules to reflect what the administration actually does instead of getting people banned for following what they are told to read upon connecting is certainly better ...
by Arianya
Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:41 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Addendum to Rule 4
Replies: 42
Views: 10055

Re: Addendum to Rule 4

I agree with this proposal, not because I think it makes the game better, but because it is what admins actually enforce changing the rules to reflect what the administration actually does instead of getting people banned for following what they are told to read upon connecting is certainly better ...
by Arianya
Fri Aug 23, 2019 7:08 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Addendum to Rule 4
Replies: 42
Views: 10055

Re: Addendum to Rule 4

Shadowflame909 wrote:Every headmin ever has said it has a problem.
I actually ran on a platform of "escalation is fine"
But no one knows how to fix it. Let's just remove it.

Replace it with nothing. dont grief and yell at coderbase for more content you burnt out playerbase
Dumbest take in a while shadow
by Arianya
Fri Aug 23, 2019 7:05 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Syndicate Lavaland Comms Base Flavor And RP Nuances
Replies: 21
Views: 5414

Re: Syndicate Lavaland Comms Base Flavor And RP Nuances

The broad intent of the lavaland base is to give people a place they can play with potentially harmful toys (virology, chemistry, etc) without copping a ban because they release deathfoam all over the station, with a minor secondary of being a hazard for miners if they should stick their hand in the...
by Arianya
Thu Aug 22, 2019 9:58 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Poly morph self during wiz round as non antag
Replies: 4
Views: 2548

Re: Poly morph self during wiz round as non antag

If you are voluntarily polymorphed you are not an antag. This is a dumb rule that needs to be reworked, I don't think involuntarily being polymorphed should make you an antag. The existence of that rule is because polymorphed mobs (especially things such as syndiborgs) are at exceptionally high cha...
by Arianya
Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:41 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Discord ban Appeal The Eekexexecycle#4262
Replies: 11
Views: 2851

Re: Discord ban Appeal The Eekexexecycle#4262

All discord bans are by nature permabans (there's no granular control on the bans within Discord itself). Per the appealing Discord bans thread, all other FNR rules apply for discord ban appeals so in the absence of other permission you would need to wait 12 months to appeal this. If you need clarif...