[Discuss] Peer review

[Josiah Allen]

On 10/24/07, Tessa <snow15cat at aol.com> wrote:
> Judging by the game generated message I'd have to agree that the review
> isn't ooc. If it was, the message would say something like "you and
> your fellow players" instead of "you and your fellow nobles". I don't
> know about you guys but I'm not a noble. So by that I'd assume you
> should review from your character's point of view. My character would
> probably find that message offensive, but if your character is an evil
> spiteful cussing barbarian and proud of it, and your character happens
> to get the luck of the draw in being selected to judge it then it
> really wouldn't be fair to judge that message as vulgar, I guess? Maybe
> I'm just thinking about it too much.

Tom's original post:



On 4/6/06, Tom <tom at lemuria.org> wrote:
> I've added a new feature to the FEI only, which is our roleplaying
> island and so everyone should be, well role-playing I guess.
>
>
> The feature is that you can mark messages that are not "proper" as
> vulgarity. Such messages will then be reviewed by 5 randomly selected
> players from the top-50% honourable. If the majority of these decides
> the message is indeed vulgar or unbefitting of a noble, then the sender
> of the message will lose a point of honour. It's a small warning, but
> for people who keep the vulgarity up, honour will continue to go down.
>
>
> This is intended to improve the game quality especially when it comes to
> atmosphere. We'll see how it works out.
>
>
> Complaints will be regularily reviewed by the Titans and abuses of this
> system (unlikely as they are, given that your judges are randomly
> selected and you will never judge your own complaints) will be punished
> harshly.
>

Note how he uses the phrase 'randomly selected players' and not
'randomly selected characters'.

Also a followed up where he states messages shouldn't be judged in
context of a particular realm:
On 2/15/07, Tom Vogt <tom at lemuria.org> wrote:
> The middle ages would've never been the way they were if there had _not_
> been standards crossing realm boundaries. Everyone here seems to forget
> that in the real middle ages, realm boundaries were much softer than
> they are in BM. It was perfectly normal to have nobles from other
> countries at your party or living in your castle or a time. The nobility
> was so inter-married that the queen of France was the sister of the king
> of Spain and the aunt of the queen of Lower Saxony as a perfectly normal
> thing.
>

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