The Book of Rules as it stands is a conglomeration of concurring opinions within the staff, and I try what I can to recreate it in an agreed upon form. The result is highly specific rules.
The Book isn't something for the average player to read while he drinks his coffee. It's a document put in place so we as the Staff have some reference as to how to act in certain scenarios. You cry about our inconsistency; the Book is the attempt to create consistency. You cry about complicated concepts, then don't read them and be a good Samaritan do the best of your ability. You cry about loopholes and other flaws, but feel either too lazy to make a legitimate argument, or cannot truly find any glaring flaws.
Intelli has seven official server rules, and they are at Spawn. What you read here you need not kid yourself about being able to understand, as it is mainly for the Staff's eyes. The only reason I post this Book publicly is written in the disclaimer.
And for the record, you gentlemen create the highly specific environment. Cerevox, if you could bother yourself to remember past occurrences in this thread, you decide to make very clear that you love absolute, fine point, specific rules and guidelines. When I am "ambiguous" you cry about how you don't understand it. You even go on to say things such as:
Also, on the trading theft, it needs some clarification.
You need to specify that hacking includes mods that alter movement speed or direction
Spawn camping is still not defined.
This list of rules has a few places where it goes all soft and squishy by being either vague or unsure. These are the rules. They should be 100% solid. No coulds, or mights, or maybes. Define everything. Be exact and precise. It is either against the rules, or its not. If you absolutely must be ambiguous then use phrases like "At the mod's discretion" or something similar so that the rules themselves are exact and un-arguable while the mods have more flexibility.
This is my favorite one^. You instigate Administrator Discretion, and then decide to begin ripping on how unfair and unpredictable it is.
Also, 4.1 is going to get abused. Swearing lightly as in what? My definition of lightly and yours and everyone else's is sure to be different.
I actually agree and am en route to fixing this section. My point here is regarding a point I did not exactly clarify, and you proceeded to bug me.
The moment that more than one person is interpreting that, you will have as many different views as you do people. Its vague and cryptic and not useful at all.
What are those situations you might ask? Well, there is not defined list, just a vague and cryptic / ... And lightly? What words are light swearing and what is heavy? Or is it the number of swear words used? Or perhaps some combination of the two?
On the flip side, the rules are trading are exact and specfic. Almost so exact as to be silly. I don't think they will work, but i do like them. There is no question on how the trading rules work. The other additions, 4.1 and 8.1, and so vague as to be useless.
I prefer tyranny to ambiguity any day.
And then you decide to switch gears almost by magic:
Your rules have become so absurdly complex that they have gone from funny and worth laughing at to almost embarrassing to be seen in the same room with.
In short, just read my first few paragraphs. There are seven server rules. And then there is this unofficial Book of Rules, used more-so as a guideline on our part in order to create some consistency. I share it with you with the hopes that you can better understand how will react to certain scenarios.