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[Cowboy]

Here I am, reading along some discussion on the GDB, and low and behold, someone makes a totally false statement about some mechanics of the game and then bases a paragraph on the false statement to justify a point he/she was trying to make.

If you speak up and correct the person, because you know something can or cannot be done, than it's the old "too much IC info in an OOC forum rants."

0r...just let the person go blindly along trying to convince folks using wrong information to support his/her point?  Perhaps he/she doesn't even know what they are saying is not correct or knows it's false and just lies to support their own argument?

Would private message to the person be the answer or is that passing along the notorious "IC information", which by the way, I agree with.

or feck it, let the uninformed one find out on his/her own and continue to make a fool of themselves?

or it's only a game and let it go?  I have always picked this option in the past.

[Cale_Knight]

I say let it slide unless the information is going to mislead newbies. Then you should speak up.

So - false information about Nilazi spells: let is slide.

False information about free water in that pit just east of 'nak's main gates: publically correct it.

[spawnloser]

My suggestion is to tell the person they're wrong and that they should find out how and why IC.  If they argue with you, tell them that they're wrong again and that if they'd like to know why, they can always ask the staff as you don't want to spread IC information.

[Ghost]

If they stated a wrong information, you can say they are wrong.  You can also correct them if you think that is necessary.  No one would blame you for spreading IC info, because the original poster is the one who started it, if it was an IC sensitive information, he would get that response in the first place.    Not the correction.

But definitely, in any case, you can just say so and so is wrong in assuming this and that.  The mechanics do not work like that, and I can't tell you more than that.

As for last bit of my opinion, please do not let false information dominate the forums.  No one really deserves the disappointment of learning the impossibility of something you were told as possible.  The least you can do is speaking up that the information is false.

[Eternal]

No one would blame you for spreading IC info, because the original poster is the one who started it, if it was an IC sensitive information, he would get that response in the first place.

Well, I'd blame you.  I don't think spreading IC info is appropriate regardless of 'Who started it?'.  I'd be very afraid of threads that suddenly started espousing ic mechanics or such because someone 'started it' and needed to be corrected in the view of the concurrent posters.

It's a pretty grey area, but I full agree that:  "I don't think that is correct, but it is IC info." is a fine response.  Most players (including myself) have only vague guesses at how things 'really work' in the game, from stats to spells to the number of Tek's balls... (not to mention thanks to a pretty darned dedicated group of coders, it seems to always be changing!)

Lord Templar Hard Nose says, ic:  "You see, he once had five, but lost two in the War.  He's still half again the man you are."

[Tlaloc]

IC sensitive information is still IC sensitive information, no matter who starts it. It is by no means 'okay' to release IC senstitive information, or information about game mechanics regardless of 'who starts it' or even if it's 'correct' or not. This considered a Bad Thing (tm).

[Halaster]

I say let them go on blindly thinking they know something.

In fact, I get a chuckle often from the GDB when someone assumes they just "know something" about the code or mechanics and they're wrong.  It happens quite a bit.

[mansa]

I say let them go on blindly thinking they know something.

In fact, I get a chuckle often from the GDB when someone assumes they just "know something" about the code or mechanics and they're wrong.  It happens quite a bit.

Halaster laughs a lot at me because I know nothing!