Discussion of Ongoing Mafia Games is Not Allowed

[lilith2013]

We have recently noticed players using the "acceptable examples" shown above to get around the rule about discussion of ongoing games, or inadvertently revealing relevant information about the ongoing game while staying within the lines of what we had previously indicated as acceptable. Even when players stay within the guidelines, there is a lot of potentially compromising information that is still being revealed. For example, if a player posts "my read is based on ongoing games" but that person is only in one other game, it's immediately obvious which game is being referenced.

We are therefore updating the rule about discussion of ongoing games to the following guideline:

Players are not allowed to reference ongoing games as a reason for a read.

You're allowed to play in multiple games at once and read games you're not playing in. You're allowed to use what you read in one game to inform your play in another game. However, you are not allowed to publicly share that the ongoing game is a reason for a read. This includes statements where it is clear that you're referring to an ongoing game implicitly, such as saying that you aren't allowed to explain a read.

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In addition, we would like to remind all players of the original guidelines posted above:

There are three primary exceptions.

Communications with authorities

You may PM, IM or otherwise contact the game mod(s), listmods who aren't involved in the game, and admins who aren't in the game. Likewise, listmods and admins will sometimes discuss ongoing games for administrative purposes.

The Game Allows Outside Communication

Where a game allows communication, it may be allowed. This must be EXPLICITLY stated in the rules (and as a listmod, we'd appreciate it if game mods would give us a heads up when this is the case).

Please note that a game mod may allow communications about his or her OWN game to be discussed elsewhere, but he or she may

NOT

allow discussion of other ongoing games in their thread.

The "Discussion of activity" exception has also been removed as of February 21st, 2022.

If your post does not classify as any of these exceptions and/or violates our new guideline, the listmods will take action.