Renee Becquerel

There are a lot of words here but I'm not sure what the argument you're trying to make with them is. tl;dr Rules covering obvious crap are irrelevant Throwing warnings at people for useless things that made some babby angry will likely be abused and end in unnecessary bans. I just flat out don't trust a majority of the mods whatsoever, not like it matters at all. This is stupid and people should just not get all whiny over dumb things. Like what I'm contradicting myself with right now. A few people have already gone down the list with your frankly incredible post but hey let's go on a journey of discovery together. If you ever run literally anything ever at some point in your life, you will quickly discover that you absolutely, positively have to write rules covering "obvious crap" because there are people who can't tell the difference between "telling it like it is" and being a "tryhard edgelord douchebag" and those people will turn up their nose and complain about being oppressed or somehow having their First Amendment rights stripped if they're held to unwritten rules of basic etiquette. See my first point because wow. Then leave. This is not a public forum. This is a service provided to you at the leisure of the people who manage it. See my first point. Just quoting you for the last point: You're saying it, not me.

I'm going to point out that committing an act of simulated sexual acts with a minor (including the representation of said acts via text) is a specific crime in many US states, Canada, and much of Europe in ways that read very much along the lines of item 39-13-529 of the Tennessee penal code (you get the best one Google could find because my Lexis account is expired). If you are over 18 and committing a like act with a minor, that is inarguably, if nothing else, corruption of a minor and that is a problem. Now I'm going to add something to this I'm going to hate myself for but, hey, conviction is a thing that exists. It is my personal opinion that if two consenting adults want to ERP (in private) in a way that violates what would be certain social or legal boundaries in real life but are not in fact violations of those boundaries because the players of those characters are adults? Well, man, I might think it's reprehensible, I might think it's suggesting of some worrying traits that I definitely wouldn't want people near me displaying, but consenting adults are allowed to do things in private and I'm not going to say you can't do it. Just don't do it near me. So there's my two cents that I feel compelled to contribute for reasons I'm going to be cleaning up over the next few days.

Ok, I'm really not trying to place blame anywhere because, by your own account, it sounds like an issue where different people made different mistakes, but you're no longer really respecting the privacy of the other person involved in this after a certain point (i.e. after you've posted a screenshot of their character and chat logs which you didn't fully edit their name out of). It is entirely possibly this is just me, but focusing on the specifics of who did what as opposed to what lead to what happened isn't so much trying to actually make this a learning experience but instead making someone other than you into the bad guy so you can feel absolved of your part in it. Personally, I don't really think this is a situation that needs to be dug so deep, or else it has the scent of calling someone out. It seems a little tasteless.

I think there's a couple separate issues coming into play at once here. First, there is, quite plainly, the matter of just what public RP and and what it entails. Simply and obviously, it's RP you do in public, and I think reserving certain "rights" for yourself as a roleplayer you don't extend to other people is, at best, a lapse in judgement. Just like in real life, if you're doing something in public, people get to do other things in public too, including responding to what you're doing. This is doubly true for criminal acts. If someone is doing something they should not be doing in an overt, public way, then it shouldn't really come as any kind of surprise when someone tries to stop them. If you as a roleplayer don't want that to happen, then the onus is on you as the creator of that scene to explain to other people that those other people are not allowed to publicly interact unless it is in a way that meets your strict approval. If you don't want to deal with that, then you need to take it into a private space. Second, and it's something I think people need to accept as a matter of the social contract, is the idea that IC actions should result in IC consequences. If your character does something sufficiently high-profile in public, like admitting to being a dangerous criminal, then what happens next is and arguably should be up for grabs. If you, as a roleplayer, don't want your character to suffer consequences for their actions, then you should not make those actions public. At the same time, if your character is going to respond to a public situation with drastic action then you should, as a matter of courtesy, clear that with your fellow roleplayers. Honestly, to put it plainly, if your character is going to be a villain, a criminal, or otherwise a bad guy, and you don't want your character to suffer the consequences of their actions, then you, as a the person in control of that character, need to keep those actions away out of the spotlight.

Such a noble-looking catman! (So completely unlike his actual personality.)