There's been some misunderstanding about Anagonia's second question, so here goes: A rule is introduced in 2024. A forum poster has made two posts, in 2010 and 2012, that violate the new rule. Can this poster be punished in (or after) 2024 for having violated the new rule with their 2010 and 2012 posts, even if they have not violated the rule with any of the posts they have made since it was enscribed into the OSRS?
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Since I'm aware mods frown on hypothetical questions: the only precedent I'm aware of for situations like this is Legal age in your nation?, a thread with 184 pages which was created in 2013. The original 2013 questionnaire contained questions about what the age of consent in your nation was. In 2020, a moratorium was reintroduced which, among other things, banned discussion about where the age of consent should be set.
The age of consent question was mod-removed from all of the responses on the first page of the thread for this reason, despite all of those posts having been made before the 2020 moratorium was finalised. I can, however, see the point in this: users after 2020 could have copied and pasted one of the 2013 response forms thinking it was the form they had to fill in, despite the fact they contained a question which it was against the rules to answer. If you're taking part in an International Incidents roleplay that's somehow survived from 2013 to the present day, you aren't just going to copy and paste one of the first responses (however rules-abiding it may be), tinker about with it a bit and call it your roleplay.
(Conflict of interest: my response to this survey, made in September 2019, originally contained the age of consent question. I have removed it and more broadly updated my post to reflect IC/RP developments in Tinhampton. I'm highly confident that all of my ~13k other posts, on this and my puppets, are either legal or - on the rare instances they weren't - have been punished appropriately by the moderators.)
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Since I'm aware mods frown on hypothetical questions: the only precedent I'm aware of for situations like this is Legal age in your nation?, a thread with 184 pages which was created in 2013. The original 2013 questionnaire contained questions about what the age of consent in your nation was. In 2020, a moratorium was reintroduced which, among other things, banned discussion about where the age of consent should be set.
The age of consent question was mod-removed from all of the responses on the first page of the thread for this reason, despite all of those posts having been made before the 2020 moratorium was finalised. I can, however, see the point in this: users after 2020 could have copied and pasted one of the 2013 response forms thinking it was the form they had to fill in, despite the fact they contained a question which it was against the rules to answer. If you're taking part in an International Incidents roleplay that's somehow survived from 2013 to the present day, you aren't just going to copy and paste one of the first responses (however rules-abiding it may be), tinker about with it a bit and call it your roleplay.
(Conflict of interest: my response to this survey, made in September 2019, originally contained the age of consent question. I have removed it and more broadly updated my post to reflect IC/RP developments in Tinhampton. I'm highly confident that all of my ~13k other posts, on this and my puppets, are either legal or - on the rare instances they weren't - have been punished appropriately by the moderators.)
