Quote Originally Posted by Raikki View Post
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Auto-follow leveling/power leveling has never been against the rules. Astral burn parties weren't prohibited in FFXI despite the people benefiting doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING (and being perfectly free to AFK). SE explicitly said astral burn was allowed.
se also stated that linking and abandoning was allowed, but you want to say it's ok for one thing, but not for another. pick your battle. if se says it is ok then both are, but you want to contend one is and the other is not.

why don't you look up the tos in which they discuss absentee leveling. they state directly that if a gm contacts you and you fail to respond it may be considered absentee leveling. like i said i did not say that it should be, but you have to admit anytime you leave a decision up to the discretion of a single individual today you may get banned for the same thing you have done multiple times before. i did not say it should have people get punished for this, but on a bad day a gm can punish when not needed.