01-10-2025, 12:40 PMSeany148 Wrote: We shouldn't expect newcomers to know subsection N of the tampering section of the IIHF rulebook.

So, I agree that this punishment seems bizarrely excessive. (I don't know if you needed to go out of your way and point out "siblings" considering one of my in-lore siblings actually did NOT create for my nation lol but hey, whatever weird shots you wanna take, I can't stop you).

It's strange to me that when someone tampered active users to France (at which point they would have been locked in and unable to leave) they did receive leniency because they were new, and in this case, recruiting people to join a nation at creation (which would still allow them to transfer out later if they discovered they didn't like it there) received no such leniency despite arguably being less harmful overall. Very strange.

I think the big problem here is the total lack of consistency between these things, and possibly the rule itself. But this statement strikes me as a little bizarre. At what point are new users expected to be held to the rulebook? Do they have to have an SHL bar mitzvah before they can be held responsible for breaking rules?

This might be a stupid rule. I'm not going to say that because I don't want to get accused of psychological abuse again, but it does seem poorly defined, and worse it seems to be inconsistently applied. But I don't think people being new to the league is an excuse to break the rulebook in any way they see fit.