Disguising OOC terms icly

[wesoda25]

Bottom post of the previous page:

So headmin elections and lots of candidates have mentioned roleplay and the separation of OOC and IC. Not a headmin thingy, just wanna get admin consensus on disguised OOC terms. If other people have questions we could make this a running thread or something.

Bans
- Is referring to bans as “being fired by centcomm” acceptable

Other Servers/Bagil-Terry-Sybil
- If we mention other servers, can we refer to them like this: “Yeah I’m from the hippie sector of space” or “I come from hippie station” or can we not mention server names like that?

Admins
- Referring to the admins collectively as centcomm is generally acceptable I know, but what about the other common variant, calling them Gods?

Previous Rounds
- I know this one is pretty much against the rules, but is it even enforced? Say Joe Schmoe kills off the station as viro last round, do admins get on people for saying round start: “Oh God who let Joe be viro again”, things of that nature.

Feel free to snowball.

[Cobby]

Cobby I realize the thought of people being bwoinked breaks you out in hives but if you start allowing people to use "sry" "thx" and so on and so forth it'll be a race to the bottom to see who can put less effort in.

Ultimately as far as our rules go its a pretty minor request and one that doesn't even really come up with people other then maybe a few times when they're new to the server, and which is easy enough to correct.

Let's not make mountains out of molehills by overblowing the "omg admin bwoinking me FNR"

Typically when someone shorthands like an idiot I say in character "what is sry?" so they automatically correct themselves, without any admin intervention required. I personally would like to see someone continue so they get sent to medical for a lobotomy or something. We should encourage self-administration (to a degree) and staying within character since *bwoink* got a moment? is just as immersion-breaking as someone dropping the evil "sry" or "thx" out of habit on rare occasion.

[bandit]

I bwoink people regularly for this and I have very rarely gotten pushback, probably since I frame it as a reminder and not a YOU'RE IN TROUBLE NOW FAM

[Cobby]

I bwoink people regularly for this and I have very rarely gotten pushback, probably since I frame it as a reminder and not a YOU'RE IN TROUBLE NOW FAM

Thank you for your service bgo (not sarcasm).

[Dax Dupont]

At least dressing up OOC terms like this is a modicum of effort to be honest. I'd generally be ok with any of these options.

What I'd avoid are hints at clearly OOC things in game, like the roundtype "We've found traitors already, I doubt there are any nuke ops", for example.

this

[obscolene]

"Shut up, Jim. It's revs, there can't be nuke ops. There can only be one antag type per round, idiot. Hold on, the faggot gods are chewing me out for some bullshit idk xD"

[PKPenguin321]

"Shut up, Jim. It's revs, there can't be nuke ops. There can only be one antag type per round, idiot. Hold on, the faggot gods are chewing me out for some bullshit idk xD"

this is not what is being discussed in this thread but WOW that rustled me

[wesoda25]

"Shut up, Jim. It's revs, there can't be nuke ops. There can only be one antag type per round, idiot. Hold on, the faggot gods are chewing me out for some bullshit idk xD"

this is not what is being discussed in this thread but WOW that rustled me

Tfw this is closer to the beginning of the thread than the current code filter discussion. Yet another policy discussion turns to code

[PKPenguin321]

"Shut up, Jim. It's revs, there can't be nuke ops. There can only be one antag type per round, idiot. Hold on, the faggot gods are chewing me out for some bullshit idk xD"

this is not what is being discussed in this thread but WOW that rustled me

Tfw this is closer to the beginning of the thread than the current code filter discussion. Yet another policy discussion turns to code

no no, the thread is about disguising OOC terms, like saying "Centcomm put me on leave" when you mean "I was banned". what he posted wasn't even a little bit disguised. but yeah

[subject217]

he said gods instead of admins so clearly mystery ooc in ic man here is actually a master of roleplay

[WarbossLincoln]

"Shut up, Jim. It's revs, there can't be nuke ops. There can only be one antag type per round, idiot. Hold on, the faggot gods are chewing me out for some bullshit idk xD"

this is not what is being discussed in this thread but WOW that rustled me

Shit like that bugs me more than it probably should. I like when admins mix antags to mess with people when they start shouting "It's X, there can't be Y"(which is way too often). Sometime within the last week there were revs during a wizard round and Sec ignored the reports of flashing because a wizard had been confirmed and in their mind it's 100% impossible for there to be revs and a wizard.

[iamgoofball]

>"fucking admins bwoinked me one second"
>admin says to not use OOC in IC
>"sorry i mean the gods are speaking to me one second"
>admin bans you for complying with their orders

This is why we shouldn't be banning people for, you know, complying with existing policy.

[NikNakFlak]

Nobody should listen to goofs post, it isn't relevant and is a niche example that doesn't happen

[iamgoofball]

Nobody should listen to goofs post, it isn't relevant and is a niche example that doesn't happen

Then why does this thread have not only a head admin but another high up senior admin stating that they do not approve of people using goc as an IC replacement for admins?

stop getting mad over people saying dumb abbreviations, people do it IRL

source: work a job where you have to listen to shithead teenagers

t. teenager


Personally I actually dislike the term Gods, it's almost always used by someone as a threat.

nothing fills me with a white-hot, seething rage more than someone telling me they're talking to the gods. fuck you, you immersion bending fucks.

[Arianya]

"a head admin but another high up senior admin stating that they do not approve of people using" != "YOU WILL BE INSTANTLY BANNED FOR SAYING GODS"

[Mickyan]

This seems like an odd thing to get riled over when you still see "g absorbing AI" and "VIVA" constantly getting shouted over the radio and nobody bats an eye

[Atlanta-Ned]

another high up senior admin

lmao

[iamgoofball]

another high up senior admin

lmao

I mean you've been here for ages

[Atlanta-Ned]

I have no influence.

PS as far as I can tell from the DB no one has been banned for referring to the admins as "the gods".

[Rustledjimm]

If I banned people for merely not approving of their actions there would be far fewer players :^)

[obscolene]

There's a difference between blaming 'the gods' for catastrophic meteors, and threatening to tell 'the gods' on someone if they 'don't stop being a faggot.' Both of them indicate that the poster is of low IQ, but only the latter busts my immersion in the kneecaps like the italian mafia.

[Arianya]

There's a difference between blaming 'the gods' for catastrophic meteors, and threatening to tell 'the gods' on someone if they 'don't stop being a faggot.' Both of them indicate that the poster is of low IQ, but only the latter busts my immersion in the kneecaps like the italian mafia.

Hit the nail on the head, basically.

[Arianya]

In summary: Disguising OOC terms with IC substitutes is fine, but don't be a dork and use this as an excuse to just completely destroy immersion.

Also, don't use textspeak in IC. This isn't really a ruling since it's already how it's handled but it came up in the thread so I'll mention it.