Board Thread:Chat Discussion/@comment-5590118-20141120182446/@comment-25393922-20141121230711

LOLSKELETONS wrote: I wonder if we could work something about faking mental illnesses into the chat rules. I was going to say it could constitute as a type of roleplaying (which, as you all should know, is a banworthy offense), but after thinking about it I think it's different enough that a distinction should be drawn in the chat rules.

If we decide to address it in the chat rules, that is. There is a slight problem with that:

How do we determine who is lying and faking it from those who are being truthful? Sure, "I have psychosis and kill people on a daily basis!" is pretty obvious. Someone who didn't have MPD or SPD one day and has it th next is obvious. But say a new user comes on and has it? How do we determine if they are lying? We could ban bringing up mental illnesses, but say someone who actually does have SPD comes on, such as Chao. One day the name is Lucas, then it's Lucy. One day it's a girl, the next it's a guy. It would cause confusion because we don't know, nor are they allowed to say, why they change so much.

I'll grant you, say it in PM. But you're confusing more than 1 or 2 people - it would be faster and easier to say it out in main then explain to 20 people in PM why you're not David right now, you're Alisha, but tomorrow you'll be David again. I would be fine adding a rule to deal with it, but the problem remains: First we need to find out who is bold face lying and who is straight up telling the truth. We need a way to determine that before we set up a rule that could very possibly cause just as much havoc as it's trying to solve.