(05-06-2020, 10:21 AM)Jonny2x Wrote:If you are referring to "game breaking error" I was just using the phrase Bex used.
Just to give you some background. No resume was an unwritten rule before the s17 debacle that got upgraded to a policy after significant backlash to trying to resim.
The error in that case was 9 players missing a combined 850+ in tpe updates. Many people (especially those affiliated with the opposing team) argued that it didn't matter enough to have caused a resim. After resimming (despite the often mocked request of the gm of the affected team...which was me ftr...to fix the problem instead) the issue blew up exponentially higher. Other games' stats were affected be ause of where the game fell in the sinking process, most notably costing one player not one but TWO tfls.
HO at the time tried to make what seemed to be a borderline call and on the resim the affected team won. Then teams worked overtime to prove they too had errors, and HO frustratedly reversed the decision, taking back the resim and returning to the original results. After allowing a team to celebrate the first win in franchise history for two days.
Notably the member base was not happy (though one lr was a bit more happy than the rest), HO wasn't happy, the simmer wasn't happy (mostly because they were not actually invovled but got at least 40% of the flack and also they're kinda never happy), and a gigantic tangled mess was all that was left.
So the unwritten rule became a hard guideline but not quite a real rule. And yesterday I was the deciding vote here. I sat for 2 to 3 hours after everybody else had voted and weighed my options because it was a close vote I took into consideration all of the things in play, all of the precedent, all of our history, and I even talked it over with my wife. And this is where we are. There were enough errors beyond the big famous F for respect RB that I and a majority of voters felt this was the way to go.
Now, going forward, we might just reword that policy. But that's not today. And it's frankly not important enough for us to instantly drop the considerable amount of other things we're doing to try to reword policy in a way that makes it not only clear and concise but also something we can potentially add to the rulebook. So for now it's just a topic on the docket to be looked into when more important shorter term matters are dealt with. In the meantime we will exercise our best judgment. It's not perfect but it's the answer we have at the moment. Right now we're focused on not being in that position to begin with.
What else we got?
Heck HO is the unofficially accepted joke term. Fuck HO is the more angry toxic version. Some version of "no wonder there's a phrase about ho" is also the latter, but far more wimpy. Make Love to HO is also acceptable.
Don't arbitrarily call people liars. Let's not make me be more direct than that gang.
MB.....as you were gang gang.
Nutella is overrated.
Holy shit I have to pay some of you a lot of money. No more buffet tokens.
Finally..just a thought. Just keep working on giving one another the benefit of the doubt.