Gilgi has received a small penalty and had her paragon status revoked for the following:

- Giving a medium reward despite minimal interaction with the recipient.

I was under the impression that PAR, as an OOC title, wouldn't have -required- IC interaction with the PAR character in order to be valid.

As an example, if I had a PAR and I was playing an alt where I encountered someone who had exceptional roleplay, I would think it perfectly valid to use my reward for that day as PAR for the person, even a medium reward: That should be my discretion.

It's also been a very common practice for other players who were playing PARs to ask me for someone to enlight because they wanted to use their enlight for the day, and I'd recommend someone who they would then enlight off of my recommendation. I've done this myself as well, trusting the word of the player I was asking. I would not have gathered the idea that this was against the rules according to the help file on PAR. It's an OOC title, why should rewards be hamstrung to IC interaction with the IC character?

So what was the rule being violated here? Is it illegal to reward someone you've never interacted with on the PAR character? If that's allowed, is it instead illegal to reward someone you've never met in-game at all, even if it's on the word of one of another player you know and trust? For as long as I can remember, it's been commonplace to reward someone based off of another's recommendation or maybe even off of a log you read on Lord Voldemort's website. I'd think that players of PARs in general would benefit from the answer to this question.

There's no reason that multiple paragons shouldn't be able to give rewards based on a single log. It's akin to magazines and other media giving out awards to things they like that they see.

Most players also do not log their experience or have their buffer log set high enough and would be unable to produce that sort of evidence. Moreover, there is very little reason to hand over a log of your play time especially to the rules manager as you run the risk of that person discovering something in the log that may not be to his/her liking and warrant further snooping.

We have a mechanic in place that prevents someone from being rewarded multiple times per day. If a few paragons read the same log on different days and all think they should reward that player, it undermines this mechanic. The mechanic is in place for multiple reasons, but one is to prevent a person from getting more than one reward for the same event. It's not like magazines and other media handing out awards, because, for instance, there is no mechanic in place that prevents someone from winning an Oscar if they've already gotten a Golden Globe for the same work or that prevents someone from winning a Hugo if they've already won a Nebula for the same piece. If that mechanic didn't exist, you might have a point. If you want to get that mechanic changed, you are welcome to make your case to Dulrik and the rest of the staff. Until then, no rewarding based on logs.

You have that right. But, if you play Shattered Kingdoms, you do so while accepting all of the rules we have, including Rule 9. If you want to get a rule changed, you are welcome to make arguments to that end in an appropriate thread on this forum. I just enforce them as written, and if they get changed, I'll enforce them in accordance with the changes.