User was banned for using this software tool
Dillan Stone
If I may quote:
The use of a script, tool or software (that does not use the publicly available eAPIs or feeds developed by the eRepublik Team) which will affect directly your citizen and is designed to perform a certain action(s) that may or may not give you an unfair advantage is disallowed.
I submit to you that the following scripts, tools or software exist,
that they do NOT use the publically available eAPIs or Feeds,
and they are designed to perform certain actions,
and they may or may not give an unfair advantage:
1) Spellchecker. It's built into Firefox. It helps me spel wordz kerektly. It iffekts how many supskriberz i have. Which leids to Media Mongrel. BANNED.
2) Calkulator. If yo ca'nt do 2+2=5 without a kalkuater, how kan u run a kompeny? Do seleries and fijure out if ur meiking a profot. BANNZOR!
3) Off site forums. Unfair to let peipel talk to each uther without speies. Definate BAN!
Feel free to add your own suggestions;
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You forgot a part: An unfair advantage could be but is not limited to obtaining the answers to the trivia questions using off-site software.
Does that inklud lookin at Wikipedia for fun and remembering stuff from it? cause that's banzored too it looks leik
You bring up good points.
By that definition, yes! >_
I am Onrche. Ban me!
No, I am Onrche!
Trying to excuse cheating using the decoder is fail. It only takes a bit of common sense to realize what is meant.
Overly broad rules that don't really tell you what you can and can't do, however, is also fail.
"Using any tool or device, other than your own personal knowledge, to obtain answers to trivia questions, is not allowed." No loopholes, and not overly broad. Hacking the game is already prohibited elsewhere. Instead they worded the rule so broadly that everyone is breaking the rules just by playing the game normally (a web browser may or may not give an unfair advantage, it's software, it's not a licensed eAPI, and is designed to perform 'certain actions.')
I understand that "common sense" is not that common.
Using the decoder is obviously cheating. Even many of those that use it (have used it) have admitted that it is cheating but so long as PEACE did it they would do it. Using scripts to scrap pages or mass PM is another obvious infringement. Those things put an additional load on the server - something most of those that are whining for a reset have not paid.
As I stated earlier, it takes a bit of common sense rather than some "sea lawyer" trying to bring up obviously ridiculous examples: ie, browsers, calculators, etc.
You might want to clean your face there, Moishe. You seem to have a brown spot on it.
Never said the decoder was not cheating. But please, accuse me of it again.
so , would it be wrong for me to make a spreadsheet, enter all the data from the trivia as i see it and study the spreadsheet to make sure i know all the answers...the trivia is very repetitive after all.
1. sea lawyer
An old navy term, when at sea a sailor is a law expert, but in reality, they know nothing. Your friends might be like this.
Trying to convince me that it was ok to kill that guy because he hit on my girlfriend proved he was quite the sea lawyer.
2. SEA LAWYER, n. One who attempts to shirk responsibility or blame through trivial technicalities. [This word is used chiefly in the Navy and at the Naval Academy to describe a midshipman or officer who uses technicalities and other trivial excuses to escape responsibility or punishment. Based on the popular stereotype of lawyers always arguing technicalities and trivial details coupled with the fact that the Navy is closely associated with water and the sea. ]
Context and source: "Most sea lawyers are not well respected by their classmates. (A Sense of Honor by James Webb)
3. Clueless
Me at how my post showed up before Moishe's... Am I in a wormhole?
Guys, speaking about common sense and lawyers, do you know this story that is supposed to have actually happened in a court of law:
Lawyer asks a witness who was a doctor:
-Are you sure the victim was dead when you have performed his autopsy?
-Yes, I am.
-Did you checked his heart rate?
-No
-Did you checked his pulse?
-No.
-Did you checked his blood pressure?
-No.
-So then how can you be sure he was dead?
-Because his brain was in a jar sitting on my desk.
-And in this situation, isn't it possible the victim could still have been alive?
-Yes, it was possible. He might have practiced law somewhere!
Petricia that is funny.. and I have heard most lawyer jokes.
it's not a joke, but an actual story 😃