do you have something to tell us al

or will it have to wait till 2015

If I had to give a number I'd say 18 months. But each case is unique. If you'd like to share something I'd recommend the mod email.

im a multi Lol my other account is called "diplomat1824"

i havent used it in like 5 years though so i think im good

It becomes more difficult and time consuming on our part too look for data from a long time ago. With that said feel free to email the case to us, because we will look into it regardless, time consuming or not if they are cheating we should be able to find it.
Regards,
damian

And I got beat by a long stretch. Consider jmo's answer the official one.

Hi Al,

Feel free to email us at [email protected] with your concern. Every case is unique and we don't have a formal deadline beyond which we won't look at a case.

- Eden

We will never prosecute members for anything they did before 2 Aug 2006.

That is a tautology abge

*Statue* of limitations

+1 2WL for catching that.

good job draug

Well, he had it right in the title, just missed it in the body.

So when will Sandgoose be back?

Term limit on prosecution. He has a life sentence.

What does tautology mean? Cool word bro.

You either understand what tautology means or you don't.

good job draug

(not sarcastic this time)

Tautology means exactly what the word tautology means

^Neither more nor less.

So what I'm deducing from this thread is that there actually is no statue of limitations for cheating.

Instead there is a limited informal policy of selective amnesty?

I can try to be more helpful, but you're asking a very vague question.

If you did something wrong a long time ago and have othwrwise been a clean player, I don't think the mods would be too harsh on you if you came forward.

What happens next kind of depends whether you're going to accuse yourself of cheating in the forum.

Thank you for your responses. Originally this was meant to be a joke. Frankly, I feel that most of the posts on this board are probably closer to trolling than genuine.
Worse still, they are usually very uncreative. I was hoping this joke would be found humorous to some, and it certainly seems to have a caught a couple of people off guard.

@abgemacht
I think what you meant to say, is that my question was very *general*.
Yes, and necessarily so. I was looking for a policy rather than a schedule or a set of case histories, for example. No matter. It may not even be worthwhile for staff to set a statue of limitations.

For the rest of you: Please be careful. You could make a mistake now, and staff could penalize you for it ten years from now!

Are you ready to come clean about this game?

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=123047

Holy.

ROFL.

Life is a cheesy crepe

Did Frank and Jimbozig get bannerated?

LMAO

I guess I should be the one to say it, although I'm fairly certain that wasn't serious...

Mapu, please do not post cheating accusations in the forum.

Thanks,

Eden

Ok, then I'll say the other thing:

@Al "Please be careful. You could make a mistake now, and staff could penalize you for it ten years from now! "

That's just plain ridiculous. There are active members walking around who are a testament to the fact that there are quite some second chances. The mods are all gamers themselves, and enjoyment of the game - for all members - is the main priority. As such, leniency is a bit like the harm principle, the more cheaters ruin the fun of other players, the less leniency there is for them.

It's like the others said, every case is unique. But if you've done something harmless and/or it's been quite a while, and you've been clean since, then leniency can be quite broad. If you've done something more detrimental to the enjoyment of others and/or it's recent or on-going, well, there's a discussion to be had then.

When will blankflag be allowed to rejoin us? I am presuming JMO has a date log for this.

Bannings are for life, SY.

What about parole hearings? The european court of human rights will hear about this!

Life without parole. Look it up.

@The Honorable Minister of War,

My Dear Friend,

One of the staff has been in on the joke for several days. Pretty much every one else was in on it last night.

Are you trolling? If so, you've got me good. I really can't tell.

Certainly no one has provided better public testimony as to the judiciousness and thoroughness of the staff in their administration of the rules that site's founders were nice enough to hand down to us.

Or am I very much mistaken?

If you have to explain that something was a joke, then it probably wasn't a very good joke.

@Jamiet99uk

Sorry for partying.

I'd like to be honest that some of us are interested in discovering and establishing legal grounds that would permit the return of Sandgoose. Sure, he was a cheater. And a rabid one. Indeed, how he managed to get himself banned while on vacation is beyond me.

But nonetheless, we seek his return.

Hahahaha, that's a good one.

See, that was much funnier than your initial attempt.

I don't understand how he ever became liked around here. Even without the flagrant cheating, his posts displayed the intelligence, sense of humor and maturity of a 12-year-old. His wife is a saint to put up with that.

It was a Glad Day when snadgeese was banned

@Al, our investigations aren't real time. In the course of investigating him it was discovered that he'd been banned and rejoined more then anyone else in site history. That along with multiple other offenses where enough for about a dozen bans. Despite that we gave him multiple chances to admit his transgressions, and he refused to do so. In some cases we're may consider shorter bans, but for people like Sarg, Sandgoose, and Agent K, who are some of the worst cheaters in site history it's just not happening. We even asked the community as a whole to vote on Agent K's possible return and the response was overwhelmingly against once all the details where laid out.

If we allowed someone like Sandgoose to come back there is no way we could justify banning anyone else. It's unfortunate, since he's a rather entertaining fellow, but that's where we're at.

What about MeepMeep -- can we get him back?

@JMO,

Thank you, Sir. Please rest assured that the standards used to evaluate Sandgoose's various and sundry infractions are not in doubt. If cheating were an Olympic event, Sandgoose would have the gold.

Also, I would want it understood that I'm not attempted to belabor the point. If you're tired of discussing the matter, then I'm prepared to let it rest for now.

One additional point though is that exile is sometimes less permanent than people think. You would think that the French people were safe when they exiled Napoleon, for example, on Elba.

But they totally weren't! Napoleon spent less than a year in exile, before sailing right back to France! And usurping power once again! And drawing France into a couple of wars.

But it's not like Sandgoose is squatting over on VDip quietly plotting his revenge, right?

@Mapu,

I'm surprised that you even need to ask. Of course Meepmeep can't come back.

The global elite are conspiring to keep him out.

...or am I confusing him with a different troll? Who was the guy with the wacky political website and a small truckload of conspiracy theories? He was at least fun.

@Mapu, MeepMeep was never banned.


"But it's not like Sandgoose is squatting over on VDip quietly plotting his revenge, right?"
I guess it's a good thing I'm a mod over there too. :)