Non-Game communication

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That's the thing - you can PM players in your games and chat as much as you want, so long as you're not:

a) Buttering them up for a game advantage or,
b) Discussing the game.

Catch: If you know what to look for, you can still deduce someone's ingame alignment even if you're not talking explicitly about the game.
This is why Neighbor is such an underrated power role.

If you're going to go that far then we need to shut down the MD and GD and only allow players to be in one game at a time. I know Adel likes to play around with his meta in the MD (and GD) to alter his in game perceptions. And I've even dropped WIFOM statements in MD during games out of amusement. I guess the only difference is that the other threads are openly available for others to browse. But still I think it's fine to talk to people outside the game as long as you don't mention the game.

One time there was a thread in MD about a topic I can't recall, and a member of a game I was playing and myself were posting in it a lot, and we directed a lot of posts at each other. It had nothing specifically to do with the game, but the mod PMed both of us to be careful with it. I think it's fine to PM another player as long as it's not game related. Same with MD/GD.

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So rarely we've accidentally posted on the other's account, though I can't recall an instance where either of us did that in a game thread. Once I did it on purpose as a joke in poor taste and apologized.