Rule 4 / 3WB

[Guy]

As some of you might be aware, Rule 4 is a new rule put in place by the mods, which restricts Commendations and Condemnations (C&Cs) to in-character written resolutions - that is, no reference to actual players (and to their actions), only to nations.

The Third Wall Block (3WB) is a voting block which votes against all Security Council resolutions (and possibly General Assembly resolutions too soon), as a protest over the rule.

Rule 4 highly reduced the quality of resolutions in a number of ways. Firstly, many players and regions who should be commended may not be commended properly (see below), due to the restriction. Secondly, many resolution writers are resorting to writing irrelevant in-character resolutions to commend (or condemn) those nations (see the current Security Council resolution, Condemn Der Fuhrer Dyszel). Lastly, many good resolution-writers have left the SC (well, I'm pretty sure about that).

What is your opinion?

[Ananke II]

I think it's a crappy rule, but from my readings in the Security Council forum I've see no understanding from the moderators. It just piss me off, that [violet] seemed like she wanted to listen to us last year, so people got involved in the Security Council, whose resolutions had improved pretty decently over time through player actions, the way we were told it'd be. Then suddenly out of the blue they hand down a stupid rule which pretty much make it impossible to condemn/commend people for anything other than roleplay. Wtf? I'm sure there's good roleplay done at the NS forum, but don't come and tell me that that's more worthy of a C&C than gameplay actions like Francos Spain in The Pacific for example.

If they don't care about gameplayers they could've least have the decency to not string us along.