[Cainehill]

Not too many other games I've played in have a site/board/wiki definately associated with them, where such rumors and innuendos can be and are published in the guise of "News" (Current events = news, to me.) Never seen anyone posting stuff like "Such-and-such a nation just found a fort via the Crystal Cathedral" here on the forums before that I can recall - but at least here it wouldn't be anonymous.

Frankly, that's what really chafes my scales - and when I saw it, my initial impression was that an outside arbiter (ie, someone not playing in the game) was using the master password to look over the game and post what he considered to be news worthy.

Which would have been an even bigger dose of crap than a player doing so - if there is an outsider posting stuff learned via the master password (that isn't directly related to, for instance, someone pretending their Wyrm is alive when it isn't in order to vote in council), then I'll be letting someone else take over my nation.

My reason for this is that I don't need a bloody "narrator" deciding what information to hand out for free to players, and what not to. And I'm not real happy about anonymous postings of said information either.