Spying Policy

It's okay for players and staff to specifically use IC means to spy on other players (obfuscate, scrying, surveillance equipment, time-scrying, etc). but it is explicitly NOT okay for staffers to spy on players through darkwatching. Darkwatching is when a staffer uses "@set me=dark" and then sits in on scenes without the knowledge of the players in the scene. There is no IC mechanism to detect or defend against it and it is rife with potential to be discriminatory. As such, darkwatching has been pre-emptively disabled on Modern Nights.

We log poses here (see our poselogging policy and the +privacy command described therein), but the pose logs are only to be accessed as a response to player requests (such as Time Sight), not just to be arbitrarily read. Darkwatching is like arbitrarily reading the pose logs. It is not allowed.

Darkwatching will be activated on a temporary basis under the following exceptions:

• 1) To provide a mechanism for a player request for a supernatural effect that is not coded into the game and has to be done in real time rather than after the fact.
• 2) To observe a player who has been recently accused by another user of abusive, cheating, or harrassing behavior.