[Kiwi Peewee]

Originally Posted by Yung Slang

Either someone bites or they don't... are you suggesting there are varying degrees of biting and each case should be considered differently?

100% yes. Examples:
A) Someone bites many bars from live battles or other LB battles in multiple battles in serious competitions then tries to claim they are their own.
B) Some noob starts the first line of their first ever verse with a line from an Eminem song
C) Someone has two lines in a verse that are very similar to lines from a live battle, but it’s unclear whether it’s their own work
D) Someone copy-pastes a whole verse verbatim but never tries to claim it as their own and explicitly tells people what they’re doing before, during and after doing it

These four examples are all very different, and reacting in exactly the same way to all of them means you end up either coming down way too hard on confused noobs and scaring them off the site, or letting serial biters get away with shit they shouldn’t. That’s why we have mod discretion.

If so a hidden policy like that is why members are going to feel like the mods are picking and choosing who and how to enforce rules on.

It’s not an intentionally hidden policy, though it should definitely be more clearly displayed. But again, the rules pages aren’t something the mods can alter.

[Kiwi Peewee]

Originally Posted by Yung Slang

Either someone bites or they don't... are you suggesting there are varying degrees of biting and each case should be considered differently?

100% yes. Examples:
A) Someone bites many bars from live battles or other LB battles in multiple battles in serious competitions then tries to claim they are their own.
B) Some noob starts the first line of their first ever verse with a line from an Eminem song
C) Someone has two lines in a verse that are very similar to lines from a live battle, but it’s unclear whether it’s their own work
D) Someone copy-pastes a whole verse verbatim but never tries to claim it as their own and explicitly tells people what they’re doing before, during and after doing it

These four examples are all very different, and reacting in exactly the same way to all of them means you end up either coming down way too hard on confused noobs and scaring them off the site, or letting serial biters get away with shit they shouldn’t. That’s why we have mod discretion.

If so a hidden policy like that is why members are going to feel like the mods are picking and choosing who and how to enforce rules on.

It’s not an intentionally hidden policy, though it should definitely be more clearly displayed. But again, the rules pages aren’t something the mods can alter.