* If players do something wrong (such as misapplying the rules, or confusing ic and oc) and the situation is not stopped IN THAT INSTANT, then either a mistake will have to persist or there will need to be a retcon. Both persistant mistakes and retcons really annoy people: therefore someone will almost inevitably get annoyed, no matter which is chosen. The best the refs can actually do in this situation is make the fairest call between the possible options, such that the minimum size group of people are annoyed by the resolution.
-- This is a cheater's charter, and I strongly disagree with this policy. --Tristan
---So the problem is that more people may care about it on one side than the other, and there will be more annoyed people on the side that isn't fair. The job of the refs isn't to minimise annoyance, much though it can feel that way when most of the feedback you get is negative. But if you remove the last half of the last sentence I agree. We are a small enough system that mistakes do get picked up and people are corrected, I can't believe that these are ever cheating as opposed to misunderstandings or, you know, actual mistakes. - Bryony
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