RE: Rule Change (New Staff Power)
January 14, 2016 at 10:00 am
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2016 at 10:06 am by emjay.)
(January 14, 2016 at 8:58 am)Napoléon Wrote: Yeah you're right, it's not even an issue in reality but I'm a stickler for shit like this. I'm not going to lose sleep over it but I do disagree with the whole notion of this nuclear option in principle especially when I honestly think it's irrelevant to declare it a thing. People have already essentially admitted as much by saying it will probably never be used and the staff already have such powers anyway.
So I'm sitting here, still wondering, even after all the justification, thinking "why"?
I think there is a benefit to it being declared from that perspective; to act as a deterrent/credible threat against those who knowingly and/or deliberately skirt the rules as a thing. You could never know for sure if someone was doing that but if there was someone who appears to be fully aware of the rules, fully aware that they're not breaking any of them technically, fully aware of the integrity of the staff in enforcing those rules, and reminding people of the fact/gloating every chance they get and/or trying to use those same rules that they are skirting against other people, then declaring this rule could pull the rug out from under them and let them know that being as big a pain in the arse as possible within the rules was not an option... get rid of the sense of safety/invincibility that such people have and maybe work where any number of smaller rules would always fail because of the rule-skirter's ability/tendency to be pedantic about the letter of the law.