Hey Folks. Many people arent reading, I can't blame you, this thread is soooo long. A lot of points that have already been answered are being repeated over and over. Let me clarify a few points.
1st off apologies. My wording was poor before when I said this is a clean slate. I am in no way saying anyone that has committed a major infraction is having their slate wiped clean. This was a simple statement in regards to the many people who obviously were not aware that you cant enter anothers account. In regards to the people who weren't aware and did no real harm I am not keen on getting them thrown to the wolves. Emotions were running high. However now they know if they did it again, we would have no choice but to take action.
Now I will say this again. People are taking this far too seriously, picking holes where there are not any. We simply can't legislate for every eventuality. That is why the common sense rule is here. Life happens and throws curve balls all the time. We are not trying to make things difficult. All of these rules really just bring us all back into line with site rules. These rules are not here to punish the honest and legitimate players . These rules are in place to give us the power to punish the dishonest player trying to gain an advantage.
Let me say again. No one is getting booted off CC for minor things. Let me give you an example of our common sense approach. This is purely an example of how it might go,
Lets try cats case study
However, what about the case where a totally reliable teammate is about to miss a turn at, say, 8 pm their time. It's under an hour, emergency sitting is fine, and so on. While the emergency sitter is taking that turn, s/he notices that several other games have low clocks, expiring in the middle of the night. It is also well known that this particular teammate goes to bed at 10 pm, and would normally play these games with low clocks before going to bed. At 11 pm, the emergency sitter checks on those low games, and finds that they still have not been played, and the AWOL player has not responded to communication attempts. A reasonable person would (a) be concerned for the welfare of their friend, and (b) want to take those turns for their friend, as there is a reasonable expectation that they will be missed.
In this case, lets say you took all of these turns that would expire in the middle of the night and had posted to say you covered each turn.
The Cd Team would check the other players account and determine if what you said was factual. If it was, bearing in mind you have tried to contact him, and got no response then we would accept this and you would not be punished. We would record it in a file however. If this started happening regularly we would speak to you about it.
I will repeat we are not here to punish the honest rule abiding players.
If you don't post to say you have covered a turn, this will always be an infraction. Always make sure you post no matter what time is on the clock, otherwise you wont be able to defend yourself if you have a legitimate reason. The only exception that will be made is when you are sitting for a player you posted in most games but forgot the odd one.
Again if you are legitimately sitting for someone. For example. They have gone for a week away. You cover them for the week. They told you they would be back 5pm Sunday. 8pm Sunday arrives they still haven't returned. You have planned to go to the cinema this evening. What do you!, do you put off your cinema trip so you can take the turns as they expire hour by hour...12am comes they still aren't home. Shucks that means you have to stay up all night, better get the coffee in. NO Of course not! this is another common sense event where you could justify taking the turns. They could well have been delayed on their way home. You can sit until they tell you otherwise.
We are not going to punish sitting with legitimate reasons. Patterns will be questioned however.
A few things that wont be allowed ever. And will earn you a straight infraction. Not posting to say you have covered a turn. Taking turns for someone when they are online taking turns themselves. Covering turns with a big chunk of time left on the clock (when you are not legitimating covering a break)
If you need to use a sitter that is not in a clan, it is your responsibility to make sure they are aware of the clan rules.
You can use more than one sitter if you wish.
Yes someone can hold your password permanently. But be aware what they do with your account will be your responsibility, if they break the rules with your account then you will both be accountable. Only choose a sitter you can trust.
In regards to not entering games when you are going away on a planned vacation. We only want to see available players in games. After all what is the point of being in a game that you aren't going to take the vast majority of you turns in. Not to mention it is not fair on your sitter. Common sense should tell you to run down your games before you go away so not overburden your poor sitter.
If i have missed anything and If anyone wants a point clarified then please feel free to pm me. Please do not pm me with ideas for improvement. Please direct them to your Clan rep, and they can pass them on to the Clan leaders group.
Just caused you got booted (due too not taking your turns) doesnt mean you have to lie about us. Have a good day sir!
