Fair Play Charter Proposal

[Alex]

Bah, leave them babbling out their incoherent 1s and 0s, we'll be thrashing them anyway... Instead of cracking their code, we'll crack their skulls.

[Static Universe]

Interesting idea, but I don't think we should have a rule on whether codes should be "crackable" or not. If they are, they are. If they aren't, they aren't. Who's to say? Do we also need a requirement that each faction needs to include a math wiz? I say let the situation continue as it is.

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Drogue
MRT: Yes we can talk in private, but it's far more fun for us to have jokes about various factions (most usually our own) in the public forum. The whole skirting with danger thing, and also the irony of writing it about things with everyone else oblivious to what we say. It's just a bit of fun.

were you picked on in the childrens creche growing up?

[Drogue]

Nope, picking on children is illogical, we were all that intelligent

[Cedayon]

Do we also need a requirement that each faction needs to include a math wiz?

No need for a math wiz, I didn't do any actual cryptography or anything.

[Vev]

Coming with a code is easy (just as long as it can decode), but breaking one is hard - due to the various possiblities available. The hard core ones may require lots of math knowledge, but some of the simpler ones is just pattern recognition.

[Corellion]

And ours, though difficult, are not impossible. We tout how great it is, but it's all in fun. A truly determined person can crack it. Besides, what harm does it do? You can ignore the messages if you wish. As for the private forum, yes we do sometimes talk in code in there too! But what if one wants to respond to someone else's message in the public forum, but wants to add another joke/insight/whatever for other members of his/her faction?

In conclusion, I really don't see any harm in this, and see no reason for the charter.

[Snowflake]

Originally posted by Corellion
see no reason for the charter.

The reason is that Pravda said so! (or did it?) But the real reason is that we have such a backlog of your previous simple coded messages to decode/translate/read how could we find any time to crack any new codes? Oh god will you appear in my dream again tonight?

[Corellion]

Only if you have a Cybernetic implant that happens to be attuned to the right frequency, but even then that's only isolated fragments of our communal thought. And if you do have a cybernetic implant, perhaps you joined the wrong faction?

[Snowflake]

Originally posted by Corellion
Only if you have a Cybernetic implant that happens to be attuned to the right frequency, but even then that's only isolated fragments of our communal thought. And if you do have a cybernetic implant, perhaps you joined the wrong faction?

Have you heard of the "long lost super sense"? I heard that people with experiences of being electrified or nerve stapled sometimes produce offsprings that possess such super abilities.

Recent scientific discoveries suggest the startling truth that human emotion is a long lost sensory system. Indeed, the force of human feeling is an entire supersense that both animates the body and guides the mind along a purposeful destiny path. What has historically been labeled as “spirit” is nothing more---and nothing less---than the supersense of emotion, a universal energy force that integrates and guides the choices of all material self-units in a “right” self-regulated yet harmonious co-creative eco-dance. -- http://www.localaccess.com/kobie/emotionalSS.html

Have you noticed my warlord status? I have been writing down every thought that appeared in my head during the time when I was half awake. I'm going to take a nap now.

[Snowflake]

human emotion is a long lost sensory system

Oh I forgot that you Cycons are against emotions.

[Corellion]

Indeed. Make not that mistake again... one needs not a supersense when one has a communal consciousness. And you Hiverians believe you work for the group.

[FlameFlash]

You see, to me it's useless, time-wasting spam. I come on to read messages since soandso user has posted a new message and I follow the link and find just more binary.

I don't care if you can decode it, if somebody else can figure out how to decode it, or if it's all just a bunch of 1s and 0s I still look at it as simple that takes some 48.8k time from my surfing 'poly and slows down all my tabs' load times because of it.

Private jokes are fine and dandy at the expense of the other factions you blankety Parrots, but there's a matter of respect here for a fellow 'poly poster who gets overly excited at the thought of a new message to read that seems to be lacking consideration.

[Snowflake]

Yes we do work for the group. That's what those drafted notes of thoughts for. And that's the reason I was promoted to the position of sensored by the department of misinformation warlord.

[Vev]

Coming up with a funny code, now that will be interesting.