The F1 Help File

[Lanvalk]

A few days ago, in pub, an interesting point concerning our F1 Help Menu was brought up. It's not an exact quote (the person in question was busy shouting his/her/its brains out, anonymity kept for their sake), but it should serve the purpose.

 

Page 4 of the F1 Help File is called "Rules and Conduct". The following two lines are in it.

At the top: "The rules of this zone include but are not limitted to:"

And below it: "Use common sense: if it's lame or cheap, don't do it."

Since the second line is below the line which tells you what a rule is, and because it's on a page called "RULES and conduct", it's a rule. Therefore, anything lame or cheap is illegal, which means that basing the ball is illegal, which means that Nerusai is a cheating, lying SMod and should never be trusted, and Mods in the zone are bad because they support laming and won't read their own helpfile. The only good mod is picano, who's rarely on, but when he is, he pesters people who base the ball with auto-turrets because he really hates ball-basing

 

I can !@#$%^&*ure the pub, aside from the quotes from the page itself, none of this can be further from the truth. Except for Sai, I'm not sure about that (don't kill me, Sai >_<). Also, picano has never pestered a ball baser with auto-turrets, only people who get the ball stuck. I asked him myself

 

Since people can make such mis-read-als of the help-file, I figured I'd post a walkthrough of this page to prevent any further confusion.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v193/NinjaMantis/Screenshots/Rules.gif

This is the page in question. The !@#$%^&*le is "Rules and Conduct". It contains both RULES, and CONDUCT. There are 3 colors in it.

Orange appears in two spots. They serve as pointers, the first to point out rules and the second to point out the punishment for the last rule.

Red applies to half the page. It signifies the "RULES" section of the "RULES and Conduct" page. If it's in red, don't break it if you don't wanna be punished.

White (or blue on some people's screens) refers to anything else. In this case, it applies to the "CONDUCT" of the "Rules and CONDUCT" page, as well as notifying some things.

 

Now, the Red is easily explained, as is the orange, but the white is the main question. First off, does the first line imply that everything on the page is a rule?

NO!

Colour coding was developed for these things to signify changes. The first line is followed by red text, which thus means that, according to colour coding, the first line only applies to red text. Therefor, if it's not listed in red, it ain't a "rule"

 

Counterargument for the case stated above: Examine the two sentences that AREN'T quoted.

"Please keep in mind that staff MAY and WILL enforce any new rules not listed above"

The second part in bold explains that rules are only listed ABOVE that line, if you didn't get the colour coding. The first bold part links to the second white sentence...

"Moderators reserve the right to extend or abridge these rules as they see fit."

This tells you that each mod is different when it concerns rules that aren't listed, as well as a couple of the other rules (namely the language one).

Finally, we have the last white sentence, the one that's in the quote. Since this page is "Rules and Conduct", and the rules are already covered, it's easy to see that this must be Conduct. Simply put, it's better conduct if you don't do cheap or lame things. It's not illegal. After all, name one zone where laming is illegal...

That should be it for today, join us next time someone finds an mistake-able instance in the helpfile!

[Kilo]

You still need to clarify that "moderators know the rules better than you" somewhere in that file...

[Darkflare]

lan, good job on explaining stuff. you know, that is why i love you

[nikegurl637]

When I saw that Df had replied, before I even looked at his post, I knew it would have "I love you" in it.

[rogh]

i skipped that whole part, I tired reading it but I decided to stop.