Regarding the Revision of the Prohibited Activities and Account Penalty Policy

[KaivaC]

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The new rules are vague and a bit of a shock...but personally, I don't think it's serious enough to unsub over.

[zztoluca]

The new rules are vague and a bit of a shock...but personally, I don't think it's serious enough to unsub over.

Careful now, disagreeing with someones opinion could get you banned now. Its vague enough that it could happen and thats a problem

[KaivaC]

Careful now, disagreeing with someones opinion could get you banned now. Its vague enough that it could happen and thats a problem

Very true...but I've never been one to mince my words lol. I'm a die-on-my-sword kind of person

[RognarB]

Careful now, disagreeing with someones opinion could get you banned now. Its vague enough that it could happen and thats a problem

and all you need is someone vindictive enough and you're getting ported to gaol and nobody is telling you why or what you did wrong other than "you violated our offense policies"

[Kaedan]

Careful now, disagreeing with someones opinion could get you banned now. Its vague enough that it could happen and thats a problem

Only if you do so in an offensive way.

[HyoMinPark]

Only if you do so in an offensive way.

This is still extremely subjective and vague. What defines “offensive”? It’s very likely that what I find offensive differs from what you find offensive in regards to some things. So, who decides which one of us is “right”?

It’s basically up to the whims of the GM handling the case, which leads to inconsistency. Which, in turn, leads to player frustration because punishments and enforcements end up being all over the place. Look no further than this very forum for an example of that.

[zztoluca]

Only if you do so in an offensive way.

"inflicts emotional distress by being offensive to another person"

If the person reporting finds it offensive, its offensive regardless how you say it. Doesn't matter how you say it. If the GM sides in their favor then the report will stick.

[Kaedan]

"inflicts emotional distress by being offensive to another person"

If the person reporting finds it offensive, its offensive regardless how you say it. Doesn't matter how you say it. If the GM sides in their favor then the report will stick.

GMs aren't dumb. In all likelihood, the person making a false claim of "emotional distress" will be the one punished for abusing the report feature (which is also a punishable offense).

[zztoluca]

GMs aren't dumb. In all likelihood, the person making a false claim of "emotional distress" will be the one punished for abusing the report feature (which is also a punishable offense).

Who said anything about being dumb. You assume this will be automated, these are humans with emotions.

[ElHeggunte]

Am I the only one who has at least a modicum in trust in GM’s etc to not abuse this lol?

Idk it’s rare for me to defend dev decisions lol, I usually disagree or I’m indifferent. But I feel like thinking these new rules are going to be used to ban everyone with an opinion is maybe a bit of a knee jerk reaction. [...]

So yeah, I understand why people would be worried that the new ‘rules’ can potentially abused. But I disagree that adding them will affect normal players in any way. If you do get banned, I’d like to assume there’s a reason for it lol

GMs aren't dumb. In all likelihood, the person making a false claim of "emotional distress" will be the one punished for abusing the report feature (which is also a punishable offense).

If we take what they've said as the truth, plenty of people have been banned from the forums for making relatively benign comments while other posters who've said similar or worse never received a single infraction. This cause for concern isn't without precedence.