they were definitely rigid and inflexible before that whole mess. check the ooc questions on any event post, and you'll likely find a lot of perfectly reasonable questions being given blanket "no" answers no matter how small, squashing potential player plans before they have a chance to happen. i'm with one of the anons above: at this point, i'd rather ask for forgiveness than permission. mods can't read every thread, how are they gonna know if i do something they'd have shot down as long as it's small and innocuous?