Today's blotter is going to be reversed. First, the warnings.

Scripting - 8
PvP - 1
Puns - 1

And now, as I mentioned yesterday, a whole bunch of repeat business.

Lockouts
30 days
Scripting - 1

60 days
Scripting - 9

Termination
Previously Terminated - 5


Now to go inside the numbers. There are more lockouts than warnings, how does that work? As I've said before, every lockout situation gets reviewed before it even gets to me, so at least two in-game staff members will look at it before I get it, the warning GM, and a supervisor. That can take a day or two, and even if it's the same day, it may happen at a time I am not around. So if a warning and request go in Friday, but it doesn't get checked by a senior, the warning will be on last week's blotter, while the resulting lockout will be here.

A second inside the numbers, the terminations are back this week. I've said before, crime is a Darwinian business. To be successful at it, you have to not make mistakes. Let's say I miss a connection the first time around (which does happen), does that mean I will automatically miss it if it comes around again? No. To pull this off, everytime the person who shouldn't be here makes a mistake, I have to as well. The odds of that happening consistantly head to zero very fast.

There are two things everyone should take from this week. I posted earlier not to share accounts. This week's blotter is why. Every one of those lockouts came from either letting someone else use an account creating warnings that led to lockouts or letting a locked out person use the account. Second, as I have also said before, don't run open-ended scripts. If you're using them, they need a beginning, a middle and an END. If the middle sends it back to the beginning, at some point you'll post on the boards, or be watching Lost, or be making dinner, or fall asleep, or the cat will flush itself down the toilet, and the next thing you know, not only did you burn dinner, but you got locked out as well. Making sure scripts have an end is not a complete cure for that, but it might keep you from landing in the cell.

That's all for the moment.

--Sanguious

>Puns - 1

>You can get warned for bad jokes?

>Seriously though, what is this?


It's probably like the Pokemon warnings that GMs got in an earlier Blotter edition. A GM thing, would be my guess.
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Huldah: Wot'cha doin'? Me: Guarding my pyramid and learning mech lore. Huldah: Wait. You learn from watching flowers dry? Me: Yup. Huldah: Next thing you'll tell me you bang rocks together to learn. Me: Well...

<<It's probably like the Pokemon warnings that GMs got in an earlier Blotter edition. A GM thing, would be my guess.>>

Ok what is this pokemon thing I keep seeing? And what is so funny about it that it keeps getting people in trouble?

Gahlron Dragon'Claws
Ranger
~Mors ante dedecum
Nihil ante coffeum~

<<So, there is some sort of GM warning given for making Pokemon, especially Pikachu, references in communications.>>

That's just odd. And here I thought it was a warmie who named himself Squirtal and throws water balloons.

<<I won't even comment on the local girl who works at Sizzler whose name tag reads Pikachu...>>
:laughs: funny I've seen stuff similar.


Gahlron Dragon'Claws
Ranger
~Mors ante dedecum
Nihil ante coffeum~

<<Same thing with the puns, some GM was probably overusing them,>>

Moonshadow (among others)

<<and someone noticed and was all like "LOL, Francis, but I gotta warn you for that one.">>

Atrathien


Solomon

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Jim, thank your lucky stars you didn't have to worry about Teletubbies.


J'Lo, no that other one
The Manipulation List -- http://symphaena.com/index.html

They are GMs/GHs, specifically the giver and givee of the Puns warning. Except for possibly mentors, players don't get to play in these reindeer games.


J'Lo, no that other one
The Manipulation List -- http://symphaena.com/index.html

<<and someone noticed and was all like "LOL, Francis, but I gotta warn you for that one.">>

<<Atrathien

Solomon>>

Heh, didn't know that old waggler was still around, a big Hello from a guild member who remembers his term at the helm.

Rehlyn



A Maelshyvean shadow beast proclaims in a shrieking voice, "We can offer you power beyond your wildest dreams in the abode of our lady Maelshyve. Lay down your arms, Rehlyn -- the pain will be brief and the reward eternal!"

<<Heh, didn't know that old waggler was still around,>>

He's not, but I do speak to him a few times a month.

I'll pass along your greetings.


Solomon

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