Except we are always told to play through the bug, which suggests that the bug is "right" from an RP perspective.
First: You are trying to get an ironclad letter-of-the-law rule, rather than accepting the "apply common sense" part.
Second: You are conflating
experiencing a bug with
abusing a bug.
Third: Where was this concern with "game mechanics trumps RP" when Oradrikkon was swearing up and down that he had received messages that everyone knew he could not, in fact, have received?
