Multiple characters per clicker

[Heyboy]

There was a discussion by e-mail about this. I for one do not really see any way to enforce current clan policy. If someone is clever enough to hide their identity, and play two different characters differently, how would we KNOW that they have the same clicker?

We may guess. If I tried this, you would probably know by the same email address or something, because I am not clever enough, but I am sure others are.

So while we may have a policy to discourage multiple characters in the clan for one clicker, I see no way to enforce a ban.

The clicker behind me, does have two different characters, they are not in the same clan, but HWC did not see any problems prior to this discussion if two characters decided to join the same clan.

Perhaps we should just have a request in the rules, that if a clicker has two characters in WoD that he/she not have both characters vote on issues/elections, but have no enforcement of this request. I think, since characters in WoD are -good- that this would not be an onerous request that would restrict role-playing.

[Kiriel]

The issue with this proposed solution is that if someone does have two characters in the clan, they're going to need to tell us they're only going to use one vote, because things like membership are based on votes and we have a tendency to try to wait for all votes to be in. So it's going to come out that there are two chars in the clan unless they vote twice for things. I don't know if this is a really huge deal- but it does seem to blur the lines between char and person. Also I suspect folks would be uncomfortable voting no for the 2nd char of a clan member to join the clan because they won't want to make the clan member feel bad, so it puts folks in a tricky spot.

Personally I think it's fine to have a good faith policy and we don't probably need to worry about enforcement because as long as folks know about the policy, they're unlikely to break it.

[Konoko]

Clickers with mult chars could just abstain from the votes I guess for one of their characters. And then rotate the abstains between the 2 characters (i.e. char a abstains this vote and char b abstains next vote). But then people might catch on since I don't think we've even really had abstains before...

One way to do it would be to have the clicker have 3 characters in the clan! They would vote 3 times but with 2 of the votes canceling each other out so really only 1 vote counts.
I'm not saying everyone should go and get 3 chars into the clan! :)

This would all be a lot of work though I bet. And a lot to keep track of. And I have a hard enough time making it out of the library myself let alone if my clicker had 2 other characters to chose from :)

Konoko

[Nuvali]

Worrying about votes from multiple characters/same clicker sort of goes against the IC grain. I can see that there might be a fundamental problem that one clicker could somehow permeate the entire clan with multiple characters and very distinctly shape voting outcomes, but again, are we voting on new members based on our OOC judgement, or IC judgement? More so, are we voting for a character or for their clicker? Hard to do both without seriously contradicting the entire point of the game.

Solution 1: You vote on each character (not the clicker), and treat them as an individual with all of the same rights and privileges as the next character.

Solution 2: You vote on the clicker (and not the character), and only let the clicker have one vote no matter how many characters they have.

The are way too many stumbling blocks in Solution 2. First, it depends on whether the clicker even *wants* to share who their other characters are. Second, it runs the risk of homogenizing all of a clicker's characters in the minds of other players, once that information is known. Finally, how would you even begin to enforce a policy of multi-character notification? You cannot use any sort of "it's-a-moral-obligation-and-the-right-thing-to-do" argument, because, again, you're back to an OOC argument.

Just my two cents.