As l4v pointed out, defining rules on 'what a troll game is' will become too arduous a task
I never said this. I said the opposite of this. You don't need a precise definition to enforce a sensible rule, especially when in this case it's quite clear the intent of the tournament was to annoy people ("you got trolled").
In the real world, many/most laws don't have precise legal definitions that robots can enforce but we're still able to manage a generally consistent justice system. Even on Warzone, you consistently enforce an anti-spam policy for which you don't have a good working definition of "spam":
Warzone defines "Spam" as (i) electronic mail messages addressed to a recipient with whom the initiator does not have an existing business or personal relationship or is not sent at the request of, or with the express consent of, the recipient, (ii) messages posted to forum and message boards that are off-topic (unrelated to the topic of discussion), cross-posted to unrelated newsgroups, or posted in excessive volume; or (iii) solicitations posted to chat rooms, or to groups or individuals via Internet relay chat, via the Warzone internal communication systems or "instant messaging" system.
The TOS definition of spam actually excludes most of the things you invoke the "spam" rule against (the definition above excludes the possibility of chat spam beyond solicitation) and includes many things that never get flagged as "spam" ((i) is ridiculously broad, (ii) is most of the forums and actually something you're not even supposed to report people for). Before someone points it out, the TOS indeed aren't meant to be taken seriously- that's my point, you've already committed yourself to not having precise definitions and relying on "common sense"!
Similarly, we used to get the same excuse for "rigged games" (how do you know when a game is rigged?) but now you've got an actively-enforced rule against rigged games. Clearly on some level, you acknowledge the duck principle ("if it quacks like a duck...") instead of getting caught up in trying to precisely define everything like you're programming a robo-moderator. The moderation system on this site is already an adhocracy that touts inconsistency as a feature; I don't see why
now you'd get hung up on not being able to come up with a clear-cut definition.
Even absent a precise definition, you can easily tackle the clear-cut cases where someone like Rick or Balthromaw transparently creates a tournament to troll people and provoke aggressive behavior. You already warn/suspend people for provocative behavior on chat, in games, and on the forums; the absence of a rule against troll tournaments is totally philosophically inconsistent with this site's moderation approach. Try to formulate the purpose of the site moderation system in a way that both reflects its current function
and explains the absence of a troll tournament rule. You can't. The moderation system on this site is merely reactive window dressing that goes after what's visible to the moderators and easy to enforce* but doesn't actually contribute to fostering a healthy, welcoming community- it doesn't tackle harassment or even the spam & deliberate annoyance that the rules speak so strongly against. In its present form, you'd get more out of just some basic technical solutions, like chat slow mode, a black list of the words you auto-mute for anyway, and a script that prevents people from naming their accounts n****r. For all the human labor this system takes from people like you and JK_3, it leverages very little human intelligence (and at its worst, encourages human stupidity).
I really wish we had something proactive, philosophically-consistent, and at least a little bit thoughtful about what it sets out to achieve.
* kids saying "p*nis" on Global Chat, oh no! someone cheated on the ladder? i sleep. bechaa calls Ercole a r****d. real sh*t! threads get toxic and players go after one person to keep harassing them? i sleep. someone posts a copypasta that uses some foul language. end of the world ban ban ban! people use Warzone as a platform to promote racism and literal genocide? i sleep. kids spam global chat, mildly annoying its 15 concurrent users until they hit the block list button? OH NO. rick creates a tournament to anger dozens of people by tricking them into joining? nothing we can do, ma'am, but we can file a report
Edited 10/5/2021 20:19:49
