theclaw said:
It's not scene rules per se, in this case. It's closer to GBAtemp rules.
You really don't understand how the scene works. There's no governing body or anything. Most of its members are organized into loosely knit groups, and stay anonymous by working under the groups' names.
Uhm thank you sir, i acutally understand it quite well. There's pretty much like 3 kinds of rules.
1st - common sense rules: use 100mb files when doing dvd9, rar/sfv iso releases with nfo outside of archives, no m0 compression etc. These can either be traced back to some official rules of the bigger scenes (game iso releasing rules, util rules blah) that got created and signed by groups that mattered at the time (even tho these may not be around). even some common sense rules are not written out, once enough sites start to adopt and enforce them, they become de-facto rules too, because unless you like to get nuked and banned from most sites that matter after a few releases you better follow the common sense rules.
2nd - releasetype specific rules - those are stated in official rulesets. yes, even if the scene is working decentralized groups gather together and work out a set of rules that they all agree on and that shall be enforced on all sites supporting that section. good examples for this are 0day, mp3, dvdr etc rules. Those were created by several groups that mattered at the time and signed by those, meaning the groups obliged to follow these rules. once again, if enough groups sign those most sites adopt to those rules (like you see "RIAA rules are enforced - Nuke 5x" or smth on every mp3site out there) and it'd be not very smart to disobey them.
3rd - Everything else. Once in awhile some people say that releases should follow a certain standard. XPA saying DS should be .rar files, XWar saying console iso releases should not have intros, Caravan starting to tag JPN instead of JAP etc etc. If not enough other groups/sites care/agree these kind of rules will neither become part of some official ruleset or become common rules. So in no way you are obliged to follow those. Same goes for the scrubbed argument. Everyone says "scene rules say that scrubbed == nuke ). Certainly it's not common sense, because neither seems to know the majority of the japanese scene about that, nor do they care nor does any site nuke for this reason at all. Actually most of the unscrubbed "propers" are usually nuked on the spot. They are not part of official rules either, because for Wii, just like the whole console-iso scene no such rules exist. This leaves me with the conclusion that this rules falls into category 3 aka it's not mandatory to not scrub and should therefore not be a reason to auto-nuke every such release on sight.
