Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
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Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
This complaint got me thinking:
https://tgstation13.org/phpBB/viewtopic ... 23&t=23103
While it's not directly related to the complaint at hand, I feel that comms agents shouldn't be allowed to spam comms with the slashfiction of lexia getting blacked.
Here's my arguments as to why:
1. They are relatively hard to eliminate versus someone on the station.
2. WGW and such make you valid to the crew, that's extremely low hanging fruit to get people killed on the station.
3. They're likely to outright get deleted if the admins do see them, wasting a ghost role slot.
I feel like comms agents should be able to get people killed still, but WGW is the wrong way to go. If that keeps happening it's likely headmins might decide that comms agents shouldn't be allowed to get people killed in the near future.
https://tgstation13.org/phpBB/viewtopic ... 23&t=23103
While it's not directly related to the complaint at hand, I feel that comms agents shouldn't be allowed to spam comms with the slashfiction of lexia getting blacked.
Here's my arguments as to why:
1. They are relatively hard to eliminate versus someone on the station.
2. WGW and such make you valid to the crew, that's extremely low hanging fruit to get people killed on the station.
3. They're likely to outright get deleted if the admins do see them, wasting a ghost role slot.
I feel like comms agents should be able to get people killed still, but WGW is the wrong way to go. If that keeps happening it's likely headmins might decide that comms agents shouldn't be allowed to get people killed in the near future.
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
Did you know comms agents have an internal GPS?
Did you know this makes it stupid easy to shoot them with a BSA?
Did you know this makes it stupid easy to shoot them with a BSA?
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
Bluespace artillery is pretty rare to get made and liable to be interfered with by admins of its own accord.NecromancerAnne wrote:Did you know comms agents have an internal GPS?
Did you know this makes it stupid easy to shoot them with a BSA?
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
The GPS is in a crate in the storage room. Ive actually shot the comms agent with a BSA for just this reason, it blew up the supply room and part of the chemistry lab, but nothing else.NecromancerAnne wrote:Did you know comms agents have an internal GPS?
Did you know this makes it stupid easy to shoot them with a BSA?
If the GPS was moved under the self destruct bomb it would be an actual solution, but right now the BSA doesnt do anything to stop the spam.
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
That's a good idea, let me PR that.Dr_bee wrote:If the GPS was moved under the self destruct bomb it would be an actual solution
Edit: Turns out that the voice changer mask contains the GPS signal. That way, the comms agent will eat shit even when he's not on base anymore.
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
I was already pretty sure that admins will delete you or bwoink you if you're saying it from a place that cannot be easily accessed by the crew to punish you. Like in space or lavaland.
If it was solidified as a ruling, that'd be fine.
If it was solidified as a ruling, that'd be fine.
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
Admins are pretty much free to do whatever they feel like to you once you start reading WGW, whether you're a comms agent or not.
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
I would have preferred to be some kind of gentleman's agreement where comm agents didn't use smut to make crew members valid as it's kind of a pain to make a exception on a way they can't trick crew into killing each other. Most of our players don't keep up with the ebb and flow of policy decisions so it's counter-intuitive to tell comm agents they can't use smut to get players killed. That said, using smut to trick the crew into lynching a player is very unsporting as crew like killing people and won't think too hard about how the radio message could be fake once they've gotten that green light. I've already had to warn one non-antag mime for using the ventriloquist dummy to fake someone else reading WGW as it usually leads to death.Dax Dupont wrote:I feel like comms agents should be able to get people killed still, but WGW is the wrong way to go. If that keeps happening it's likely headmins might decide that comms agents shouldn't be allowed to get people killed in the near future.
The option for comm agents to trick crew into killing one another should still exist. As pointed out half of the role is sewing chaos onto the station so it's just natural for them to do that. I could tolerate a ruling saying comm agents aren't allowed to use smut to make crew members valid to one another. It's messy to have to make policy for something that fits in their role, but it's fair to say WGW is itself a exception and forcing people into that policy exception instead of the intent of allowing players to read smut and make themselves valid goes against the intent of the WGW policy. It's a cheap to force it on someone.
I'm kind of ambivalent about round start antagonists and this though. Traitor with a ventriloquist dummy or voice changer doing this is a bit more fair then some ghost role trying to bait a easy kill. It's still unsporting so I don't know if solo-antag should be included in this if we prevent comm agents from using this tactic.
Whole thing is kind of a grey area for me and I'd rather comm agents didn't do it then actually force a policy on the whole thing. I guess eventually people force the issue.
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
Gonna put my fun police hat on here for a second, maybe the problem isn't with comms agents, maybe the problem is with having a rule 8 exception whose sole purpose is to give the random assistant of the day the attention they so much crave thanks to a meme being overdone and run into the ground for the last decade
Maybe having a trigger sentence that makes someone open to murder in a game that's often about deception and subterfuge is a very bad idea
Maybe having a trigger sentence that makes someone open to murder in a game that's often about deception and subterfuge is a very bad idea
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
I see it as abusing OOC policy of someone being valid for reading WGW to enact IC consequences, something that was intended for self harm only, not for weaponization, so it should be punished
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
Reading WGW is already a potentially bannable offense, I don't see what needs to be changed.
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
Huh, so I guess it DID work. Sadly the BSA isnt available every round. fucking hilarious though.Denton wrote:That's a good idea, let me PR that.Dr_bee wrote:If the GPS was moved under the self destruct bomb it would be an actual solution
Edit: Turns out that the voice changer mask contains the GPS signal. That way, the comms agent will eat shit even when he's not on base anymore.
That agent was a thorn in our side for the entire round.
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
"the station can use the result of a rarely completed fucking goal to kill the guy spamming radio at no cost to himself with his second life so it's fair" is weaker than hell
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
People will spam WGW regardless of the "rule 8 exception" we give itMickyan wrote:Gonna put my fun police hat on here for a second, maybe the problem isn't with comms agents, maybe the problem is with having a rule 8 exception whose sole purpose is to give the random assistant of the day the attention they so much crave thanks to a meme being overdone and run into the ground for the last decade
Maybe having a trigger sentence that makes someone open to murder in a game that's often about deception and subterfuge is a very bad idea
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
Then just ban for it. It’s a stupid meme that’s been overdone by everyone and only exists to get a reactionPKPenguin321 wrote:People will spam WGW regardless of the "rule 8 exception" we give itMickyan wrote:Gonna put my fun police hat on here for a second, maybe the problem isn't with comms agents, maybe the problem is with having a rule 8 exception whose sole purpose is to give the random assistant of the day the attention they so much crave thanks to a meme being overdone and run into the ground for the last decade
Maybe having a trigger sentence that makes someone open to murder in a game that's often about deception and subterfuge is a very bad idea
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
We do if they continue to spam it despite mutes or other efforts. Bans for spamming already existNoxVS wrote:Then just ban for it. It’s a stupid meme that’s been overdone by everyone and only exists to get a reactionPKPenguin321 wrote:People will spam WGW regardless of the "rule 8 exception" we give itMickyan wrote:Gonna put my fun police hat on here for a second, maybe the problem isn't with comms agents, maybe the problem is with having a rule 8 exception whose sole purpose is to give the random assistant of the day the attention they so much crave thanks to a meme being overdone and run into the ground for the last decade
Maybe having a trigger sentence that makes someone open to murder in a game that's often about deception and subterfuge is a very bad idea
i play Lauser McMauligan. clown name is Cold-Ass Honkey
i have three other top secret characters as well.
tell the best admin how good he is
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
I think he means ban immediately for it like you would for non-meme sexual material?
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Player who complainted over being killed for looting cap office wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 1:33 am Hey there, I'm Virescent, the super evil person who made the stupid appeal and didn't think it through enough. Just came here to say: screech, retards. Screech and writhe like the worms you are. Your pathetic little cries will keep echoing around for a while before quietting down. There is one great outcome from this: I rised up the blood pressure of some of you shitheads and lowered your lifespan. I'm honestly tempted to do this more often just to see you screech and writhe more, but that wouldn't be cool of me. So come on haters, show me some more of your high blood pressure please.
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
What sort of orwellian shitstorm did I walk into? Suggesting isntant bans for WGW? Really?
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
for reading it as a comms agent*deedubya wrote:What sort of orwellian shitstorm did I walk into? Suggesting isntant bans for WGW? Really?
forming a lynch mob weaponizing a headmin ruling and players being bloodthirsty is cheap, unfun and has no counterplay
"it wasn't me who said that, it was a comms agent!" yeah right why should I trust you when I can bash your skull with a toolbox with my free grief ticket
an addendum to the ruling should be added noting you should not use wgw to get someone other than yourself killed
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
could treat it like ERP used to be before it was banned - it didn't make you valid to players but you were 100% valid for admemery and didn't get to complain if they spawned 1000 skeletons on you
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
This is exactly my point.teepeepee wrote:for reading it as a comms agent*deedubya wrote:What sort of orwellian shitstorm did I walk into? Suggesting isntant bans for WGW? Really?
forming a lynch mob weaponizing a headmin ruling and players being bloodthirsty is cheap, unfun and has no counterplay
"it wasn't me who said that, it was a comms agent!" yeah right why should I trust you when I can bash your skull with a toolbox with my free grief ticket
an addendum to the ruling should be added noting you should not use wgw to get someone other than yourself killed
Also spamming wgw already makes you valid for admins, the problem is they can do it and get people lynched fast.
Also we can't really act on it much if it happend a bit ago like earlier in the round.
It's extremely unfun to get lynched because a ghost role just uses a voice changer to get you lynched without any effort whatsoever.
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
george orwells 1984 is a bleak dystopian view of a future where reading unoriginal memes in video games gets you temporarily banned from that video game for 15 minutes.deedubya wrote:What sort of orwellian shitstorm did I walk into? Suggesting isntant bans for WGW? Really?
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
what does any of that even mean
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
Already the caseScreemonster wrote:could treat it like ERP used to be before it was banned - it didn't make you valid to players but you were 100% valid for admemery and didn't get to complain if they spawned 1000 skeletons on you
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
I don't really agree that comms agents shouldn't be allowed to read it, but as long as the dumb ruling of "WGW makes you valid" exists, I agree that they shouldn't be allowed to read it with the voice changer. If the comms agent wants to read WGW, they should have to out themselves as a comms agent. Then, if the station wants it to stop, they should have to find and kill the comms agent.
Of course, excessive spam(of anything, not just WGW) should be open to admin intervention. But y'all are taking a vintage meme way too seriously.
Of course, excessive spam(of anything, not just WGW) should be open to admin intervention. But y'all are taking a vintage meme way too seriously.
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
what I mean is, if people weaponising "doing X makes you valid to other players" is a problem, make X no longer make you valid to other players, but keep it extremely valid for adminbus as it is now.PKPenguin321 wrote:Already the caseScreemonster wrote:could treat it like ERP used to be before it was banned - it didn't make you valid to players but you were 100% valid for admemery and didn't get to complain if they spawned 1000 skeletons on you
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
Lynching for WGW is an OOC solution to an IC problem. Like, WGW readers become valid to the the AI/Borgs even if they’re Asimov. Allowing comms agents to abuse this OOC solution by marking people for death is stupid and shouldn’t be allowed
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
Getting an admin to kill them is their goal. Its a stupid copypasta said only to get a reaction. An admin killing or gibbing or brain damaging them or whatever is exactly what they want
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Re: Reading smut/wgw/spamming comms as a comms agent
I just right click -> delete anyone who reads wgw because its the most anticlimactic reaction they could possibly get
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There is a lot of very bizarre nonsense being talked on this forum. I shall now remain silent and logoff until my points are vindicated.
Player who complainted over being killed for looting cap office wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 1:33 am Hey there, I'm Virescent, the super evil person who made the stupid appeal and didn't think it through enough. Just came here to say: screech, retards. Screech and writhe like the worms you are. Your pathetic little cries will keep echoing around for a while before quietting down. There is one great outcome from this: I rised up the blood pressure of some of you shitheads and lowered your lifespan. I'm honestly tempted to do this more often just to see you screech and writhe more, but that wouldn't be cool of me. So come on haters, show me some more of your high blood pressure please.
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