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PS - In addition the kind of logic behind the do not discuss IC rules doesn't really hold up.

If I go onto a Wheel of Time (book series) forum and say how cool and immersive Armageddon is and reveal who I play and post a log to convince people to join. What happens? If the staff find it will I somehow be punished? For posting on a non-related board to people who probably do not play?

What about if I go to one of those fanfiction websites and turn a log of my Armageddon character into a short story. I use the same name as my GDB login and I don't alter any of the character names. If someone finds it and reports it, I get punished? What if I never linked it on the GDB or forums like this with clear association to MUDs?

Where do you draw the line on telling people they can't share something they enjoy?

Rules. No Rules. The no conversation of IC elements is ridiculous and I know immersions and plot integrity are important but... Name one other game/movie/entertainment where you cannot discuss or share your experience with others? Like it's human nature to discuss and share opinions and experiences about things as a way of forming a community and bonding. That is why almost all MUDs/MUSHs/MU* with a policy restricting the ability to do this just have AIM/SKYPE/DISCORD/SHADOWBOARDS that do it anyway. Sometimes (most of the time) even the staff of these games indulge in it.

No IC discussion ever is basically like illegal weed. Everyone's doing it and it's mostly harmless. May as well legalize it and give some common sense rules on the really super bad stuff you should avoid doing. Like blatant metagaming. Not telling someone how quickly you killed a bear and it was so cool because you forgot your sword so you had to do it with a dagger and you were scared you were going to die because you were so forgetful hahaha... You know, harmless shit.

Didn't Tek's daughter Ms. MetalArm already like assume power and/or start the black robe rebellion or something? I could have sworn she took power and/or is sharing it with 2 other people right now?

Listen son (I'm calling you son because I am being a dick). Unless IsFriday killed you with a sexually flirtatious fme character that complained about being sexually objectified, you haven't experienced the true IsFriday ride. 

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I don't actually think the ARM playerbase is "bad". I think that they RP what the situation is and in my examples with elves in Tuluk under Sinjinn and gickers in general there isn't really a downside to allying with these anti-establishment or anti-social forces. Why?

In the case of Sinjinn and the elves, the dude like ran Tuluk. He had Qoriya if not in his pocket then in his corner. You were better off playing ball or sucking up than trying to treat him like shit because then you get knifed in the throat and your character is dead.

In the case of gickers, befriending one yields pretty big advantages in not just code but also access to plot (like sirra said). Normally the association isn't even bad because if Blue Robes or whatever find out what you're doing you have better odds that they use you as an informant on the rogue gickers or ask you to do special tasks with your rogue gicker ties because you and them are expendable. Doesn't sound that bad to me.

It wouldn't be the only reason. It would be an enforcing reason. Not only that but the playerbase (in the past) has pretty much shown that if there isn't a coded consequence then they'll do whatever they want. It's kind of like a MUSH player saying that you don't need to code in perma-death or combat code because they'd rather deal with the bad RPers than have coded requirements to resolve story.

Instead of adding code though you could always update documentation. You know gickers eat babies, gickers become less human over time, gickers like to mess with mere mortals. Whatever. Like I said in theory half-breeds shouldn't need code because their social stigma backlash is based on them being unstable and untrustworthy. Which is true. Elves likewise are all thieves, it's part of their culture so the social stigma there is also true. Dwarves are all goal obsessed little bastards who don't know how to use punctuation, so the social stigma about them being driven but "selfish" or focused on a specific thing is also true. In theory that means the gicker hate is also true but either documentation doesn't give gickers enough guidelines on how to RP being a soulless abomination or there isn't a coded factor to make it true.

Unless out of all social stigmas in ARM, gickers are the only innocently stigmatized group.