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Updated IR Comments
« Topic Start: May 05, 2014, 05:37:37 AM »
I've updated the IR page on the wiki to include this statement:


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Personal vs. Generic

 Note that the IRs are meant to protect individual players. Generic requests or commentary aimed at nobody in particular is usually not a matter of IRs. Someone saying that activity in the realm is fairly low or that the army could use some more archers is not breaking any IRs.
As with all things, this is not a 100% rule. Someone saying "nobody should attend the next tournament" is violating the IR, because while he is not using any names, his comment is directed at everyone, and by that at individual players. The difference between "we could use more archers" and "everyone recruit archers" is that in the first case, nobody is pressured to do anything unless he wants to. You can agree to the statement without having to act on it. You cannot in the second case.


We have recently seen people cherry-picking messages out-of-context in attempts to abuse the Titan system as a way to punish their in-game rivals. This rule is intended to clarify our intentions and make it more difficult to create IR abuses out of generic comments, which was never the intention of the IRs.

At the same time, we are now cracking down on abusive Titan reports.