D. Trolling is prohibited.
Trolling is whenever someone is clearly, deliberately posting in a manner for the purpose of angering and/or insulting the other participants of the board. Trolling DOES NOT encourage further discussion in the long run, it only encourages personal attacks (if left unchecked).
should have posted that at the beginning.
Here's the thing, and some serious talk now; for a lot of PvPers, it's not enough for them to try and win in game, they also have to engage in what I've heard many loosely call "Board PvP"... they make appeals to the rules there, not out of any sense of fairness, but because they want to manipulate those rules in order to further humiliate or destroy an opponent outside of the game. For some, and where board behaviour is directly linked to account status, even that isn't enough and the aim is not just to try and claim a position of presumed strength in the short term, but to get the opposing players banned from boards or game or ideally both.
Now to anyone but a literal sociopath, this is obviously a completely terrible position to take for the health of any gaming community; because it destroys the very world you claim to be fighting for... even those who love PvP will be wary of engaging in it in case they run into someone who doesn't know where to draw the line and ruins the wider experience too. And those who don't enjoy it dare not speak up either, because of the same atmosphere of fear, and very quickly become sick to the soul that they can't, that their wider creativity is poisoned by such individuals, and slowly they drift away from the game too... The game slowly dies, but what does it matter, as long as the individual "wins" their "Board PvP" eh?
The misconception people have about the Moderators here then is simply this; that they are
not here to tolerate this going so far over the line, they are here to prevent "Board PvP" as a matter of wider community health, not engage in it as opponents you can prove you're better than. Indeed, apart from perhaps EvE Online, there's no MMO that allows it to go that far on their boards even to the players, but even there, the Moderator's word still remains law above the petty squabbling. I suspect that an awful lot of the furious claimants of unfairness actually know this, but are hoping all the same to "Rules Lawyer" their way into causing conflict they somehow think they will gain from all the same.
And most people are aware of this type of person now. The mods here aren't going to fall for it, that's your misunderstanding.
It is true however that there's a bias somewhat for the Mods towards Trammel posters, but it's not pro-Trammel the facet as such at all; but pro-those who happily live and let live. That doesn't mean that those who do are personally angels either; Let me use myself as an example, there's an occasional poster here that I remember from the 2003 UO.com boards as being a ("he doesn't look good in that muddy hat"- Ed), which isn't a nice thing to think at all; he may have widened his perspective since then of course, and it's not as if he's made more than a few posts since then! None of them directed at me. I doubt he even remembers me. He's still a ("I own such a passive cat" - Ed) to me though. The point is however, I also don't make page after page after page trying to get him completely banned, so I'm not, apart from a cheeky post here and there, any real problem for the mods, to him, or anything that isn't in the interests of the game we all play. And in
general, this sort of person will have moved to Trammel where they can live without conflict, as I indeed did.
Where as there's more people trying to bend the letter of the law around someone else's neck in Felucca, and they'll drag both Felucca and the boards into areas they were never meant to go to do it... and the Mods are going to stop you doing that, and are unlikely to be supportive of your kind of posting,
because even when they play that facet, they want Felucca to survive too.
The bias here is for the socially constructive against the infantile anti-social, that's all.
