Theren, had you had several active threads during the time your computer was down, and your opponent had continued to post every 72 hours, you would most certainly have squealed 'cheap' as well.
I might have. Here's the difference.
a) TNO is in a variety of threads. We just happen to be able to keep up with them all.
b) I wouldn't have enlisted the staff to roll the thread back like a cheap @#%$, because there is NO provision in the rules for any sort of mandatory dismissal of the 72-hour rule. Know why, Kas? Because this is the god damn internet. Tomorrow, all members of TNO could claim to be going on a vacation and the war would have to be put on hold, while we sat comfortably at home and planned our next move. You couldn't prove otherwise.
Let me put it to the rest of the staff, and to GC, very simply.
GC has two active members, at this current point in time, at least according to the testament of Jan and Dolash. Griff, apparently, is not active enough in their group to defend so much as one planet. So this presents two sets of possibilities:
One, GC does not have the required number of members to actually be considered a group. This doesn’t mean they need to be immediately disbanded, but it does seem to discount any argument in favor of our staying attacks on them for the absence of one member. How is it our fault that GC legally has too few members to even be considered a group? Why is it our responsibility to cater to their rule-breakingly short member roster? This instance also discounts any future possibility of merging with other groups and would necessitate the GC being dissolved at the next active group check.
Or, two, Jan and Dolash are in fact lying and it would’ve been wholly possible to defend this world – they simply used Jan’s absenteeism as a convenient excuse to put off doing so. In which case, why is it our responsibility to cater to their shiftlessness?
These possibilities are mutually exclusive. It’s one or the other, kids; you can’t have it both ways. So the next time group activity is checked or you kids want to merge with another group (like, oh, I don't know, ORS), I'll just be linking to this thread and that'll be the end of that. Alright? Alright.
I've also just got to ask when inactivity of rule-breaking proportions became a defense for special treatment.