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At this point, the joke is only being used to make fun of the punishments being handed out. The joke has entirely derailed from "It's an IP, laugh!" to "You can get in trouble for making this joke, laugh!". People are just making fun of the extremely harsh punishments being handed out. I'm fairly confident that this joke would've died out into obscurity by now, like all do, if these extreme and very harsh punishments weren't being handed out for it. I completely understand the idea of why these are being taken seriously, but these punishments are far too extreme for mere jokes. It's just ridiculous to think that someone that has been around on the server for YEARS can be completely fucking exiled from this community for making such a stupid joke. The fact that someone making an IP joke can be banned from the server for the same length as a ban for racism, homophobia, etc. is just appalling. I'd love to hear what the thought process is for handing out punishments as harsh as this for something so tame.

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Just because I am curious, in this hypothetical scenario, would IP jokes in a private TS channel be protected in the same way as homophobia and racism is?

Question: Why is the leadership team so set against jokes around IPs? Comments/Concerns: This is a serious question because it seems like a bizarre thing for all of leadership to be so set on punishing so very harshly. As far as I can tell it has almost 0 community support. It just seems a weird place to draw such an extreme line. It seems to be super sudden and out of no where change. I think it may help the community or at least myself if we understood why leadership is so heavily opposed to this specific joke. Staff Member you're asking: Any of leadership so director+ Additional info: This isn't like me calling it stupid or complaining I am genuinely curious. And maybe it can help some people make sense of why all the action is so extreme

Yeah I'm curious about this too, obviously we want to make sure members of the community can feel safe and not threatened by people claiming to have their IP or anything along those lines, but I don't fully understand why any and all jokes involving IPs have suddenly become so harshly punished. I think this is a weird hill to die on and could very well be evaluated in a case by case basis rather than it being a 2 strike system into a community ban.

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This is pretty unprecedented behaviour too. I don't think anything else on the server holds such a high punishment Community bans seem to be relegated to those who cause extreme issues within the community, with almost all of them having resounding overall support from everyone around. However this seems like a big jump the community does not support. Which is weird you would ban in the name of the community against most the communities wishes Honestly this way of tackling this "issue" seems to only be promoting the issue. You're just making them more popular because no one agrees with such weird rulings.

Can I say it's allowed? No. Just be smart and make sure you understand your surroundings, I can't really expect every channel to be monitored 100%. Think about it like this, If you were to ask me if racism is okay even in private I'd say absolutely not.

I just wanna know what a port joke is :(. Can I get an example?

I'll try my best to answer the concerns and questions of everyone reading this, as I was not personally present when establishing the punishments or their severity. Although, I do agree with most of the punishment guidelines and hopefully I can explain why. Lets start off with the elephant in the room. Do I agree that someone should be punished harshly for a joke, absolutely not. Do I agree that punishment should follow someone for potentially releasing private information without consent or prior knowledge, yes wholeheartedly. When we have so many people in our community it will always be impossible to fully understand every persons circumstances or walks of life. Releasing personal information like an IP can be seen as a joke to most of us which is great in my opinion. But for the few, this can be considered a real threat for their safety or the safety of their loved ones. This is on par with releasing someone's street address to the knowledge of many, which is a blatant lack of respect and completely unacceptable in this community. Moving on. Can we as a team expect people to understand what a real IP is, unfortunately not. I'd love to believe we live in a world where everyone has the wisdom to know simple information as to what is real and what isn't, but unfortunately we don't. There are many things that can be considered to avoid conflict or punishment. Joking with your friends in DM's is a great way to keep things private and prevent it leaking in to something that could cause others concern. Racism, Peadophilia, death threats, Doxx'ing, harassment and advertisement. These are a list of things that are 100% unacceptable within our community and on any platform Synergy performs on. Joking about an IP isn't something I should consider adding to the list above, but it can fall under Doxx'ing, harassment, and advertisement in (most) situations. Therefore I believe a warning first is completely fair when addressing each case. The warning in this instance I feel is heavy handed as it starts with a one week ban. I'd personally prefer a verbal warning first, a ban second, and removal from the community third. After hearing general concerns from the community and my own personal opinions I believe a slight adjust to the ruling is in order. As most of you are aware, this will require further discussion with Leadership as a whole.

When I can't post someones IP online and commit a federal offense /j Fr tho, we just doing some serious level tom-foolery when we make jokes like that I deadass laughed for 8 minutes straight after comics posted the "Whataburger Appreciation post" High staff making a joke on the same level of offense as a literal community ban is kinda silly, Being put on the same list as people who actually commited crimes, for just a joke. Mad crazy but wtv

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That's a discussion best saved for an entirely different suggestion, I'd rather not derail your suggestion here.

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Even if this item doesn’t detect cloaked enemies, I do think it would fit better with SOBDE/SO as you said than ARF, and this is coming from an ARFL.

Unfortunately I can't support this suggestion as I don't think you fully understand how the current class balancing works or why it was implemented. I'd recommend taking some notes based on other job classes and seeing why they are the way they are before making adjustments. It's perfectly fine to think outside the box and try to change things, just always keep in mind as to why things were made that way in the first place. Edit: If the concern is the Z-6 and it's performance. Why not make a suggestion regarding the Z-6 itself.

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A joke is a joke. I don't understand why some think that people can act upon something as stupid as a IP joke. Some jokes offend but that is all of the harm that they will cause.

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I would like you to know that I had tested this out at one point, this addon is not very good.

-1 I do not think ARF should be given the power to detect cloaked hostiles. I'm guessing this would be either given to SOBDE and SO, or they would remove their ability to see cloaks. Personally don't like that. Secondly it opens up the possibility for an unlimited sized group of people to see cloaked enemies, also don't like that.

All of these problems are just from assuming it will function in a very oddly specific way. Spawns don't have to be set job by job, other servers have no issue categorizing the player jobs into "setspawnrepublic" and the EJ jobs as "setspawncis", these are extremely specific issues that can easily be fixed just by coding the command in a certain way and I don't see why they should take away from the utility of the command overall. And as I've already said, they shouldn't be permenant, they probably even couldn't be permenant between map changes as different maps have different scales and having the same spawn between maps could result in people just spawning in the void, so I'm not sure why it would ever be coded that way. Also you're *really* underestimating the utility that this would have, you're saying most maps default spawns are good as if GMs always just use a map the way it comes, which is far from the case, often times there is an obscene amount of building that can completely transform the layout of a map to where it is unrecognizable from its default state, just look at any of the flatgrass deployments there have been, you can't really just have a "pretty good" default spawn with how massively changeable map layouts can be. And this would eliminate a lot of unnecessary work as already stated earlier with the whole tac process which never goes smoothely and often has to be revisited mid event.

People read out my families names to me everyday and I get its a joke I wish people could really get jokes nowadays. Shit is hilarious most of the time and if I cared I could tell them to stop and they would understand

i really can't comprehend why a harmless joke about a completely fake ip would get someone banned and removed from staff.

IF POSSIBLE im gonna strive to get KU Support/Medic back to how it was before (Medkit + Armor drop) after this post. Otherwise we currently have a full SO Support branch and a half full GM Support branch to cover us on the armor side so health and other parts of the battalion/KU are being focused on as of now. also our Jet Troopers Double as pilots seeing as Support is now just a medic

Tactical insertions create a lot of lag if it's a decent sized deployment. Unless the spawn tool also creates lag, the spawn tool is better

Cuz high staff likes having a thing to punish people for

Why don’t you just not post an IP? Like very simple lol. It’s not even funny