"3) Do not talk about this somewhere other than the playing thread. This means NOWHERE. Not in PM's, not on the servers, not anywhere."
This rule is honestly just silly to be completely honest. I disputed it last season and I will do it again. The whole essence of all the survivor seasons on tv have been 'to be sneaky or cunning' and the best parts are watching the reactions of the blind-sided contestants. How exactly do we blind-side players when all the information that circulates in this game is out in the open.
Its like if they had a rule on survivor that said "You are not allowed to talk in small groups and decide your plans". Those moments create the most excitement and get the audience more 'into it'. Now I know we dont have a audience but the players aren't competing for money or anything, they are playing to have fun and this rule completely blocks all opportunities to make such exciting moves.
I dont want to get too survivor nerdy but any self respecting survivor fan will remember one of the best (in my opinion the best) seasons ever, Season 16 in Micronesia with the Black Widow group of girls. They absolutely slaughtered all the boys in this season. how you may ask? they were sneaky and discussed within themselves, without the boys knowing, how they would vote out each and every one. How exactly would Natalie have been able to convince Erik to give up his immunity? How would they have blind-sided Ozzie and Jason? They couldnt have and that season would have been as boring as season 5 (oh god that one is terrible).
An example that this rule ruined was my plan. Equal amounts of votes for every member of the other tribe, sending all of them to the danger zone but alas, it wouldn't work because I had to proclaim it to everyone instead of just my tribe.
Andres, please remove this silly rule, it makes absolutely no sense in this game, a game that prides itself on sneakiness. We could always just explain ourselves after each vote so everyone knows what happened behind the scenes.