>1) Vlad, you aren't shy about praying about rules violations.
> This isn't a bad thing, but it's weird that you had a
>non-borderline situation (talking about sports, etc.) and
>didn't pray at all about it.

I haven't prayed about what I consider "annoyance" violations, since that last time I was basically told 'if you don't like it, don't group with them'. I still pray about things like multiing or bug abuse, but when it comes to people in a group talking OOC, I gave up on reporting it.

>2) At any given time, the number of players vastly exceeds the
>number of people who can snoop them.

Very true.

>3) Snooping more then 2 people at once gives me brain damage.

Been there. I feel your pain.

>4) Because of #2 and #3, there's always going to be a number
>of people on line who are not being directly observed. This
>is fine, because most players follow all the rules most of the
>time.

100% agreement here.

>5) Because of #4, if someone is clearly not following a rule,
>you generally want to pray about it, or else we often won't
>see it, and the behavior in question will continue.


>6) If you pray about non-infractions (e.g. very obscure name
>issues, someone grouped with someone else for the second time,
>etc.), then yes, the Immortal who answers your pray has other
>things to worry about and will not pay much attention to it.
>

I don't even bother with reporting bad names anymore. Now I just wait for them to delete and mock them on the forums. Man, there's a BUNCH of people coming up for some of the old "What the hell were you thinking naming yourself THAT?!" treatment soon. *rub rub*

Basically after the way the imm chewed me out, if it doesn't actually have some effect on my char or some elses directly (IE bug exploitation, cheating, passing gear etc etc) I just mark that player down in my "Big book O' Morons", stop grouping with them, and rejoice when they die.



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