Back in May, Facepunch updated their "server operator rules" to seemingly allow for the single dev to have a little more control about what types of content his platform hosts.
Most of early of early actions taken against communities seemed rational and within the guidelines of the document; forcing servers to remove the "rapist" dark rp role and SWEPs, forcing moat to stop being a little baby, and including some pretty broad but sensible doxxing rules. However, as of recent, the dev seems to be getting really nitty gritty about a few things he/the team don't like. The best and most recent example is the whole IP fiasco; the thing that most likely spurred to publicization of said information is
"Releasing private information about a player to the public (IP addresses, real names, pictures, etc)"
The wording, at least to my skilled vomit paragraph writing brain, makes it sound like the action needs to be through an intentional or semi intentional means. Having vulnerabilities in your code have been an issue in the past in these communities of volunteer passion and labor. A few good examples are moat being a fuck up with his code, and the whole pixel/temar sister kissing computer thing. For the threat to be credible enough that the dev can even threaten the mean sounding word blacklist is wild for a simple mistake. You would think he would be more focused on helping the community fix it and keep them on his platform rather than threatening with his 16 oz dick of justice. It'd be nice to flesh this out and make it apparent whether or not my boys gonna get spanked for an accidental code exploit.
It seems this trend of slowly grabbing for more and more control will continue into Sbox. They've already outlawed some pretty memey gamemodes from the past in the name of racial justice and some other quick things. If this course stays charted, you can expect big brother dev to step up and say "nah nah nah, kids can't moderate nudity images/explicit conversations/my fan art of dinkleberg's wife" or something next. Just a matter of time before they piss in my cereal again and I scream at the sky
what are you thoughts? It's their platform, so they should be able to control the content to some degree. But what's overstepping?
Most of early of early actions taken against communities seemed rational and within the guidelines of the document; forcing servers to remove the "rapist" dark rp role and SWEPs, forcing moat to stop being a little baby, and including some pretty broad but sensible doxxing rules. However, as of recent, the dev seems to be getting really nitty gritty about a few things he/the team don't like. The best and most recent example is the whole IP fiasco; the thing that most likely spurred to publicization of said information is
"Releasing private information about a player to the public (IP addresses, real names, pictures, etc)"
The wording, at least to my skilled vomit paragraph writing brain, makes it sound like the action needs to be through an intentional or semi intentional means. Having vulnerabilities in your code have been an issue in the past in these communities of volunteer passion and labor. A few good examples are moat being a fuck up with his code, and the whole pixel/temar sister kissing computer thing. For the threat to be credible enough that the dev can even threaten the mean sounding word blacklist is wild for a simple mistake. You would think he would be more focused on helping the community fix it and keep them on his platform rather than threatening with his 16 oz dick of justice. It'd be nice to flesh this out and make it apparent whether or not my boys gonna get spanked for an accidental code exploit.
It seems this trend of slowly grabbing for more and more control will continue into Sbox. They've already outlawed some pretty memey gamemodes from the past in the name of racial justice and some other quick things. If this course stays charted, you can expect big brother dev to step up and say "nah nah nah, kids can't moderate nudity images/explicit conversations/my fan art of dinkleberg's wife" or something next. Just a matter of time before they piss in my cereal again and I scream at the sky
what are you thoughts? It's their platform, so they should be able to control the content to some degree. But what's overstepping?