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Could people stop posting blobs of cryptography on forums?
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Author:  ksedlar [ Thu Nov 05, 2015 4:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Could people stop posting blobs of cryptography on forums?

It's really annoying when I get all excited about new posts, and then I find out it's just two people using a shittier version of pms while speaking in different languages.

Author:  inisley [ Thu Nov 05, 2015 5:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Could people stop posting blobs of cryptography on forum

+++++

Author:  lilychen [ Thu Nov 05, 2015 5:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Could people stop posting blobs of cryptography on forum

They're not exactly analogous to PMs though.

Author:  AustinFathman [ Thu Nov 05, 2015 5:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Could people stop posting blobs of cryptography on forum

Namely, they are publicly available information, therefore you don't get in trouble for passing on a key. (you aren't showing a screen or forwarding a pm, but you can essentially 'unlock' things for other people, say upon a death... or ensuring a message posted via proxy came from the appropriate person.)

Author:  oreo [ Thu Nov 05, 2015 5:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Could people stop posting blobs of cryptography on forum

But what's actually the point? I really don't get it at all. Also AustinFathman, we are allowed to print out a screen and show it to people and we are allowed to verbatim quote communications with other players, (though I still have no clue how to begin understanding what's going on, so there might still be arguments for using cryptography)

Author:  mads [ Thu Nov 05, 2015 7:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Could people stop posting blobs of cryptography on forum

Chiming in to say I'm also super confused.

Author:  ksedlar [ Thu Nov 05, 2015 9:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Could people stop posting blobs of cryptography on forum

aok said "You may not show anyone a computer/phone screen, forward a screenshot, or repeat/copy verbatim communication from god (Exception: private rules clarifications may be copied verbatim). You may print out a computer/phone screen to show, and you may copy verbatim communication with other players."

So I'm not sure what cryptography lets you do that pms wouldn't.

Author:  ltchin [ Thu Nov 05, 2015 9:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Could people stop posting blobs of cryptography on forum

TBH, I think people are excited about the new toy they have and are problem coming up with some devious schemes :P

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