Regarding the Revision of the Prohibited Activities and Account Penalty Policy

[Fyce]

No, it's not that simple, and it's why people are blowing this change way out of proportion.

Sure, if someone "feels" offended, they can report you, but you're not going to be punished automatically because that person said they felt offended. They'll look at the logs and they'll only punish if the language used was actually offensive enough to cause "emotional distress". These are employees, so they'll have guidelines on objective criteria for what constitutes "emotionally distressing" language. And people who abuse the system by claiming false emotional distress will have to worry about being punished instead.

Of course it's the person who gets offended that will report you. And why would the GM think that they weren't really offended? If someone claims to be offended by something, who but that person can know if that's actually the case and how much it affected them? How can you decide if something is "offensive enough"? Everyone have different sensibilities. What might seem offensive to you might not be to someone else, and vice versa. There is no reason to think that GM will arbitrarily draw a line to say how thick of a skin people should have.

Besides, there is absolutly nothing in these rules or the official lodestone announcement that proves your claim. If anything, they literally just said that they will now get involved, and that it was the biggest change in their policy that they ever made. People have the right to express their concerns about the worst case scenario. You brushing that off so easily achieve absolutly nothing and can even be quite detrimental.

The "better be safe than sorry" approach very much applies here.

By reading the logs. They aren't just going to accept any claim of "I was offended" and automatically punish the accused. That's utterly ridiculous.

Yes, the GMs will have objective criteria by which to judge if something reported actually qualifies as "emotionally distressful".

You actually don't know that. And yes, this is ridiculous, because these rules are ridiculous.