Official stance on crowd mentality
Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 1:09 pm
Salutations!
Following a precedent case of crowd mentality in a recent Manuel round, I'd like to ask for a Headmin stance on crowd mentality and how it affects punishment of the individual.
Please note that the round in question (137998) was only used as an example and should not be the focus of the discussion, neither in terms if the punishment is justified or if punishment was warranted at all.
To go further into detail, in real life crowd mentality is a serious factor to decide on how police (as an example) act and punish if faced with it during a riot.
The general strategy is to isolate the leaders and break up the riot rather than going after an individual in the crowd. Once a human is part of a bigger collective, it gets easier to step over boundaries and break rules because one is no longer acting as an individual. This effect is treated as a punishment-reducing circumstance should it be prosecuted for non-leaders.
More material on the topic:
YOUTUBE: Herding Behavior: How following the crowd leads us astray
YOUTUBE: Wendover Productions; How to Stop a Riot
My question, then, is: Will crowd mentality on /tg/station generally be taken into account for punishments and, if so, will it have a positive or negative effect on the punishment?
Following a precedent case of crowd mentality in a recent Manuel round, I'd like to ask for a Headmin stance on crowd mentality and how it affects punishment of the individual.
Please note that the round in question (137998) was only used as an example and should not be the focus of the discussion, neither in terms if the punishment is justified or if punishment was warranted at all.
To go further into detail, in real life crowd mentality is a serious factor to decide on how police (as an example) act and punish if faced with it during a riot.
The general strategy is to isolate the leaders and break up the riot rather than going after an individual in the crowd. Once a human is part of a bigger collective, it gets easier to step over boundaries and break rules because one is no longer acting as an individual. This effect is treated as a punishment-reducing circumstance should it be prosecuted for non-leaders.
More material on the topic:
YOUTUBE: Herding Behavior: How following the crowd leads us astray
YOUTUBE: Wendover Productions; How to Stop a Riot
My question, then, is: Will crowd mentality on /tg/station generally be taken into account for punishments and, if so, will it have a positive or negative effect on the punishment?