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Posted by: Lord Pyro
I play for fun and armory completion. :)
Posted by: coolmike699
Posted by: Cycle22
Posted by: coolmike699
Posted by: Achronos
Short answer: context matters.
Remember, the entire rules can be summed up as "Play nice, don't be a jerk." Apply that to the context of the conversation. Is this false information just a friendly joke between a few friends, or is it the post of some tool trying to get his jollies by tricking people into deleting their system32 directory (as an example)? See? Not that hard.
The rule stays as is.
So, why can't you simply add the word "maliciously" to the rule? It's one word, and it would make the rule perfectly convey what you mean, without making us guess.
Is this stubbornness for stubbornness' sake, or is there a perfectly good reason not to change it?
The main point is that it deters people from trying to push the limit. People have different definitions of malicious, if the rule basically prohibits it, it ensures that people will have second thoughts before deliberately misleading people, while those who are confident that it will only be taken as humor will continue to do so. Why? Because they know that they won't be banned for a joke if it doesn't really hurt anybody.
There is only one definition of "malicious" in this context. If someone has a different one, then they're wrong.
Not really, for example, someone could post "Delete system32" as a joke, thinking no one could be stupid enough to actually do it, whereas someone else might think "what a terrible person, trying to ruin someone's computer". The first poster most likely does not want them to actually delete system32, they are trying to be funny, while others see it as malicious intent.