Rizzo
Well-Known Member
There is a fine line between having and lacking someone's consent. In normal conversation most people do not specifically ask "do I have your permission?" or "I grant you my consent."
So at what point when a RP begins do we have the reasonable right to withdraw consent? Do we need to begin with a contractual statement? Perhaps we must submit documentation to an administrator first? I never recall anything like that being necessary. Would it be unreasonable to suggest that by responding to a post you have given your consent?
Along with consent, at what point may one decide they do not want PVP action? Before or after they post their character committing a violent act toward another character? Would it be unreasonable to suggest that by initiating a PVP scenario that you have given your consent?
I have recently had the great displeasure of having a friend, who shall remain nameless, determine that part way into a story, in which their character was intended to live, that his character would attack mine! After discovering that my characters equipment would save his life and prevent the attack from being a one-hit killer he decided to make accusations against me using my action of editing my previous post to satisfy a request he had made to "prove" I had cheated, despite that not being the case. He argued that I had not obtained his permission to engage in that RP, despite having helped me set the scene by giving me information and even posting a response!
So now I ask the community, at what point do we determine that a post is canonical?
At what point do we determine that a member has made a commitment to see a plot through to the end?
And finally, when two plots scrape against each other with conflicting continuity are the GM's obligated to work with each other to correct the plot hole?
So at what point when a RP begins do we have the reasonable right to withdraw consent? Do we need to begin with a contractual statement? Perhaps we must submit documentation to an administrator first? I never recall anything like that being necessary. Would it be unreasonable to suggest that by responding to a post you have given your consent?
Along with consent, at what point may one decide they do not want PVP action? Before or after they post their character committing a violent act toward another character? Would it be unreasonable to suggest that by initiating a PVP scenario that you have given your consent?
I have recently had the great displeasure of having a friend, who shall remain nameless, determine that part way into a story, in which their character was intended to live, that his character would attack mine! After discovering that my characters equipment would save his life and prevent the attack from being a one-hit killer he decided to make accusations against me using my action of editing my previous post to satisfy a request he had made to "prove" I had cheated, despite that not being the case. He argued that I had not obtained his permission to engage in that RP, despite having helped me set the scene by giving me information and even posting a response!
So now I ask the community, at what point do we determine that a post is canonical?
At what point do we determine that a member has made a commitment to see a plot through to the end?
And finally, when two plots scrape against each other with conflicting continuity are the GM's obligated to work with each other to correct the plot hole?
