Proposal: "No Denial of Receipts rulle"

[nbarclay]

Edit: It looks like the concern that prompted me to start this thread was not valid, so forget it.




I wonder if Vox might be deliberately denying us read recepits on our private messages in an effort to buy time. The fact that such a thing is possible (assuming I understand the mechanism correctly) makes me tempted to propose the following rule in the C3DG forum. Should I do it?

1) It is henceforth illegal to willfully deny the sender a return receipt for any private message (PM) believed likely to be related to the Civ 3 PTW Democracy Game.

2) Should a player mistakenly deny a return receipt for a message that turns out to be related to the game, he is required correct the error by promptly sending a PM to the sender of that message indicating his receipt of the message.

[FrustratedPoet]

Doesn't PM-tracking get round this? I don't really know, because I've never had need to deny receipt to anybody.

[nbarclay]

Possible text to explain the rule:

It has recently occurred to me that Apolyton has an option to deny the sender of a private message a return receipt indicating that the message has been read. Use of that feature makes it impossible for an ambassador who sends a private message to tell whether the ambassador he sent it to has not yet read the message or has read it and is simply stalling. Such a tactic, if used, would be both unrealistic (since a courier could presumably report back that the message was delivered) and detrimental to the smooth flow of the game. Indeed, it could prompt a sending team to deliberately hold up sending their turn in order to try to ensure that the recipient will have time to act on the message. I therefore propose the following rule to address this issue:

[nbarclay]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
Doesn't PM-tracking get round this? I don't really know, because I've never had need to deny receipt to anybody.

How about if we test it? I'll send you a PM, and you read it using "deny receipt" and we'll see how it shows up on my PM tracking page.

[FrustratedPoet]

Done.

[nbarclay]

It's not showing up on my list of unread PMs, so it looks like my concern was unwarranted (assuming you clicked "Deny Receipt" to read it and did nothing else).

Nathan

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by nbarclay
(assuming you clicked "Deny Receipt" to read it and did nothing else).

That's all I did.