Post by Mari on Jan 23, 2020 22:36:21 GMT -8
So! Those of you who took part in our recent Assassin's Creed Suspect Test may have noticed that it didn't go smoothly. This is normal. For as long as we've had suspect tests, we've had problems related to suspect tests. There were a few problems we sought to address with the old system of doing things, namely:
1) Voting was semi-compulsory, in that if you didn't participate you might not like the results. We wanted to remove or heavily decrease this aspect, as we felt it was probably a negative experience for some people.
2) It was too prone to arguments. When you combine the fact that people felt compelled to participate and the fact that a discussion prone to disagreements was at the heart of the process, there really wasn't a lot we could do to prevent these without radically altering the process. So we are!
3) It forced the staff to hold people to a pretty high standard of debate. In practice, this meant we had to spend a lot of time calling people out for violating the voter guidelines, because it wasn't fair to expect that of literally everyone.
So we're more or less scrapping that system and moving on to one we think will function a lot more smoothly.
The new system is simple: We will hold suspect tests at our discretion as before, and post threads as before. However, there will be no vote. Instead, we will voice concerns about series and members will be free to talk to us and help address those concerns, or provide arguments on behalf of a series ligality. There will be no more debates. Not between the staff and members. Not between members and other members. Instead, staff will discuss these series privately, using any knowledge gained from members wishing to help out, and come to a ruling on our own based on the interests of the site. This is how Assassin's Creed was handled.
You can review the new Ban List Guidelines here!
Additionally!
While we were revamping the suspect test system, we discussed the idea of white listing games for ligality. That's right. We are considering ligalizing games that do not currently meet the standards for ligality under the rules. This will be held under a large amount of scrutiny to prevent just anything from being white listed, but does open a chance for some exceptional ligality if everyone agrees with a series' presence! What an exciting time to technically be alive!
You can review the new White List guidelines here!
1) Voting was semi-compulsory, in that if you didn't participate you might not like the results. We wanted to remove or heavily decrease this aspect, as we felt it was probably a negative experience for some people.
2) It was too prone to arguments. When you combine the fact that people felt compelled to participate and the fact that a discussion prone to disagreements was at the heart of the process, there really wasn't a lot we could do to prevent these without radically altering the process. So we are!
3) It forced the staff to hold people to a pretty high standard of debate. In practice, this meant we had to spend a lot of time calling people out for violating the voter guidelines, because it wasn't fair to expect that of literally everyone.
So we're more or less scrapping that system and moving on to one we think will function a lot more smoothly.
The new system is simple: We will hold suspect tests at our discretion as before, and post threads as before. However, there will be no vote. Instead, we will voice concerns about series and members will be free to talk to us and help address those concerns, or provide arguments on behalf of a series ligality. There will be no more debates. Not between the staff and members. Not between members and other members. Instead, staff will discuss these series privately, using any knowledge gained from members wishing to help out, and come to a ruling on our own based on the interests of the site. This is how Assassin's Creed was handled.
You can review the new Ban List Guidelines here!
Additionally!
While we were revamping the suspect test system, we discussed the idea of white listing games for ligality. That's right. We are considering ligalizing games that do not currently meet the standards for ligality under the rules. This will be held under a large amount of scrutiny to prevent just anything from being white listed, but does open a chance for some exceptional ligality if everyone agrees with a series' presence! What an exciting time to technically be alive!
You can review the new White List guidelines here!
Last Edit:
Jan 23, 2020 23:09:14 GMT -8 by Mari
