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[OOCRP]A verdict on Govindia's RP delay request
Topic Started: Aug 3 2005, 11:34:41 PM (127 Views)
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The request by Govindia:
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"All right , look. Nothing personal against anyone here, but I'm going to have to kindly request that any threads that have been involving me please hold off on posting, at least until Saturday.

There have been personal things going on in my life, and at my work, especially occuring tomorrow and Friday, that I need to focus on. Loop and Fish may have an idea, as they are on my LJ friends list.

I ask that any OOC disputes that need to be resolved with all parties, including me, be mutually resolved by everyone, and to contact me via PM or IM if you need me for anything.

Please understand and consider my request. Thank you for your patience."


The blog in question:
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Packilvania's Appeal in Response
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"Whilst I am more than willing to slow an RP to allow members to get back into the swing, I beleive completely stalling the RP will lead to an RP's death as it has proven to do in the past."


FPS, the RP Mod's, defense of Govindia's request
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"Point One: Initial Reasoning

Govindia has stated that he will be unable to return to RP until Saturday as a result of an emergency. As such, he has requested that a temporary hiatus be placed on all RP activities involving him (which is pretty much all RP activities), that he is not left behind, or left with like 5 pages of RP to write when he returns.

As RP Moderator, I, of course, looked over his request, and the affects of trying to post without him. They were not good. In almost everyone RP hes involved in, Govindia is playing a major part. In most of them, his post is actually required for a continuation of the RP. Now, in the mind of those proposing to appeal my decision, his position in the RP would just be..circumvented. I'm not sure exactly how that would be done, but however it would be done, I am quite positive it would either leave the storyline in an extremely weird position, taking loops and curves it doesn't need to, or leave it with large holes wherever Govindia should have responded.

On top of this, as a moralistic person, I found I had to approve the hiatus. Realizing he has a major RL emergency he must deal with, he asks...pleads for the RP community of the EP to hold up, not to leave him behind. As Wachovia put it...why can't we cut him a little slack? Hes having an emergency, and all we can think about is how to keep going without him.

Finally, back as RP Moderator, I didn't like the precedant that would be set. If his hiatus is not approved, the EP site administration will be stating that this board is more important then RL emergencies, and that, should such an emergency exist, you should just ignore it, to keep your place here.

Come on, people. Hes going through a real emergency, and all people want to do is say "Sucks for you" and keep going. I'm sorry, but outside of destroying those RPs hes in, and being entirely moralistically wrong, it sets a precedent that I cannot, and will not agree with.

Point Two: Response to Appeal

I've already adressed that it is an emergency that is pulling Govindia away. Thus goes the first part of your argument. As for the second...you state that you'd be willing to slow RP, but not stop it. And you state that the RP might die if you stop it.

Well, Pack, so be it, if you ask me. I don't want the RP to die, and over the course of three days, I doubt it will. But frankly, if it comes to having a crappy plot, with a large hole where Govindia should have posted, versus not having a storyline at all...I'd choose the latter. But thats just me.

I rest my case, and do hope you will back it, Wachovia."
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We have history in this matter. Let's consider the following:

1. Many taking a break have come to understand they will be written out or ignored in the thread in question. Often they write themselves out of the story as courtesy.

2. Players have in general extended grace to each other, either delaying RP efforts for personal crisis or simply giving the nation in question a bye with no further damage to their nation.

Since this is an emergency, let's do the following:

1. RPs where Gov is a major character (ie subject of attack) will pause till Saturday noon EST.

2. RPs where Gov is one of many attenders will continue with the provision that they will last till Gov returns. (Gnidrah, just give him a chance to play some role that's meaningful.)

3. RPs where Gov is not currently involved will continue uninterrupted with the provision that Gov is not to be attacked or modified by the posts in the thread until he returns and all normal rules apply.
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does that count the interview thread, where one of his errant citizens is currently being tortur, , interviewed
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Decision is acceptable on my side; I won't be appealing. Thank you for your time, Wachovia.
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I agree with the verdict, and fully comply.
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thank you wachovia, and everyone else who respected his decision.
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thank you FPS for your defence :)
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Aug 6 2005, 01:53 AM
thank you FPS for your defence :)

Your welcome, but do realize it had nothing to do with you. I would have done the same were it Loop or Pack, and thats what I was defending.

Well, that and my decision, of course. I don't like being wrong :P

Uh...topic closed to keep things official.
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