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Rwekazaland wrote:Is it okay to use like another nation when someone says like yes to it?

Rwekazaland wrote:Is it okay to use like another nation when someone says like yes to it?

The OSRS wrote:

Regarding Sharing Accounts

What is "sharing accounts"?
As far as moderation is concerned, a nation account is shared if more than one person has accessed it. Whether a nation is being used by a group of players, or a nation is given permanently from Player A to Player B, both instances are shared.

Is sharing nations among multiple players allowed?
It is allowed, but moderation's stance on the act is to avoid it as an unnecessary risk. There are no "safe" ways to share a nation, only ways that are "slightly less unsafe."

What are the risks?

• Personally Identifying Info - If you do not scrub your PII from the nation before handing it off, the recipient may be able to use that very same tool to see your personally identifying information, including your IP and email address! Anyone with access to that nation (and has that nation's password) can access the PII report! NOTE: Performing a PII scrub prior to transfer of a nation DOES NOT REMOVE ANY OF THE OTHER RISKS!
• WA warnings - If you're sharing around a WA member nation while one or more people with access to it also maintain WA accounts, you run a greater risk of getting caught on the WA cheatscanner.
• Warning history - If you share a nation that has a moderation warning history, you risk having that history associated with you.
• Bans/DEATs/DOSes - Sharing nations around muddies the moderation trail and increases the risk of one or more players being at risk for moderation enforcement they didn't actually earn. Although moderation will do what we can to avoid this confusion, if players share nations around enough, it truly becomes almost impossible to definitively tell who has control of what.
• Nation theft - Fact is, the more people have access to a nation, the less secure it is. If one of the owners hijacks that shared account, there will be nothing moderation can do to help the others recover it.
• Outright malice - If one person with access to shared account goes on a rulebreaking rampage, everyone with access to that account risks having disciplinary actions levied against them, as the system will have trouble telling Player A from Player B when they both login to Nation X regularly.

So why don't you ban it?
Enforcing such a ban would be impractical at best. Hence it falls under the same general umbrella of "player responsibility" as things like your password security, caution about sharing computers or using publicly accessible ones, and so on. Players can share, and will share, and thus they accept the risks that go with it.

CoraSpia wrote:I hope that the mods don't mind me stepping in here, as it isn't marked as a report thread and I have experience with this issue.

As someone who in the past has regularly shared nations, I would recommend against it in all but the most pressing of curcumstances. I have both had a friends puppet deleted when I broke the rules in 2013 and got puppetswept, as well as dodging a very nasty bullet when another friend asked me to 'mind' (Why?) his account for him: that player was later made DoS. Unless you know the player extremely well and there is really not a method of you doing some crucial task without the sharing of nations, it's a risk best left alone.
I'm not sure if the mods would be okay with someone asking for a warning history report on their nation and then screenshotting it and sending it to the person they intend to share a nation with, but even if that's within the rules it still can't account for future activity by the nation owner impacting on the person the nation is then shared with.

Reploid Productions wrote:

CoraSpia wrote:I hope that the mods don't mind me stepping in here, as it isn't marked as a report thread and I have experience with this issue.

As someone who in the past has regularly shared nations, I would recommend against it in all but the most pressing of curcumstances. I have both had a friends puppet deleted when I broke the rules in 2013 and got puppetswept, as well as dodging a very nasty bullet when another friend asked me to 'mind' (Why?) his account for him: that player was later made DoS. Unless you know the player extremely well and there is really not a method of you doing some crucial task without the sharing of nations, it's a risk best left alone.
I'm not sure if the mods would be okay with someone asking for a warning history report on their nation and then screenshotting it and sending it to the person they intend to share a nation with, but even if that's within the rules it still can't account for future activity by the nation owner impacting on the person the nation is then shared with.

^-- great example of the risks associated with account sharing.

Users are well within their rights to ask for a copy of their warn history, and what they do with that copy afterward is up to them. Even if the other player is willing to share that information however, there's no guarantee that they are providing it accurately. They could easily fake a screenshot of the Voice of Mod telegram, or just straight up edit a copy-and-paste of the text to misrepresent their history.

As always, our advice is that it's a risky behavior best avoided. If someone chooses to do so anyway, it's their risk to take.

CoraSpia wrote:

Reploid Productions wrote:^-- great example of the risks associated with account sharing.

Users are well within their rights to ask for a copy of their warn history, and what they do with that copy afterward is up to them. Even if the other player is willing to share that information however, there's no guarantee that they are providing it accurately. They could easily fake a screenshot of the Voice of Mod telegram, or just straight up edit a copy-and-paste of the text to misrepresent their history.

As always, our advice is that it's a risky behavior best avoided. If someone chooses to do so anyway, it's their risk to take.

am I right in believing that the mods won't do that for you? I couldn't, for example, request a copy of my warn history be sent to Dumb Ideologies (nation example picked as last ns person to dm me on discord and for no other reason) and the mods would oblige such a request?

Rwekazaland wrote:so.
A nation called "Atlantican people" said that about giving his acc to someone else if they insist.
Is this allowed?

Also. so. Sharing an Acc, Allow, but selling. Big no no?

CoraSpia wrote:

Rwekazaland wrote:so.
A nation called "Atlantican people" said that about giving his acc to someone else if they insist.
Is this allowed?

Also. so. Sharing an Acc, Allow, but selling. Big no no?

Not a mod disclaimer, obviously:
Selling an account is never allowed as it falls under the commercialism rule. Also...'if they insist' sounds like you're putting pressure on the guy to give you account access. Given the risks associated with giving account access is that really something you want to be doing?

Rwekazaland wrote:

CoraSpia wrote:
Not a mod disclaimer, obviously:
Selling an account is never allowed as it falls under the commercialism rule. Also...'if they insist' sounds like you're putting pressure on the guy to give you account access. Given the risks associated with giving account access is that really something you want to be doing?

So sharing accs are okay

Reploid Productions wrote:

Rwekazaland wrote:Is it okay to use like another nation when someone says like yes to it?

As Farn already noted, sharing a nation is not banned, but we recommend against it. You'll want to review this bit from the OSRS in particular for further details:

The OSRS wrote:

Regarding Sharing Accounts

What is "sharing accounts"?
As far as moderation is concerned, a nation account is shared if more than one person has accessed it. Whether a nation is being used by a group of players, or a nation is given permanently from Player A to Player B, both instances are shared.

Is sharing nations among multiple players allowed?
It is allowed, but moderation's stance on the act is to avoid it as an unnecessary risk. There are no "safe" ways to share a nation, only ways that are "slightly less unsafe."

What are the risks?

• Personally Identifying Info - If you do not scrub your PII from the nation before handing it off, the recipient may be able to use that very same tool to see your personally identifying information, including your IP and email address! Anyone with access to that nation (and has that nation's password) can access the PII report! NOTE: Performing a PII scrub prior to transfer of a nation DOES NOT REMOVE ANY OF THE OTHER RISKS!
• WA warnings - If you're sharing around a WA member nation while one or more people with access to it also maintain WA accounts, you run a greater risk of getting caught on the WA cheatscanner.
• Warning history - If you share a nation that has a moderation warning history, you risk having that history associated with you.
• Bans/DEATs/DOSes - Sharing nations around muddies the moderation trail and increases the risk of one or more players being at risk for moderation enforcement they didn't actually earn. Although moderation will do what we can to avoid this confusion, if players share nations around enough, it truly becomes almost impossible to definitively tell who has control of what.
• Nation theft - Fact is, the more people have access to a nation, the less secure it is. If one of the owners hijacks that shared account, there will be nothing moderation can do to help the others recover it.
• Outright malice - If one person with access to shared account goes on a rulebreaking rampage, everyone with access to that account risks having disciplinary actions levied against them, as the system will have trouble telling Player A from Player B when they both login to Nation X regularly.

So why don't you ban it?
Enforcing such a ban would be impractical at best. Hence it falls under the same general umbrella of "player responsibility" as things like your password security, caution about sharing computers or using publicly accessible ones, and so on. Players can share, and will share, and thus they accept the risks that go with it.

Frisbeeteria wrote:Sharing devices is not the same as sharing IP addresses. We routinely (well, pre-COVID) have students in a single school sharing a common IP but on their own laptops or tablets. As long as you aren't sharing devices, having a matching IP is not likely a problem.

Frisbeeteria wrote:Sharing devices is not the same as sharing IP addresses. We routinely (well, pre-COVID) have students in a single school sharing a common IP but on their own laptops or tablets. As long as you aren't sharing devices, having a matching IP is not likely a problem.