Regarding the Revision of the Prohibited Activities and Account Penalty Policy

[HyoMinPark]

I believe what this means is if someone says or does something that is an objective nuisance, but not with the -intent- to be a nuisance, they can be punished. Of course, the first punishment isn't an immediate ban, just a cautionary statement, so most of it will stop at that. If they weren't doing it with intent, they likely didn't realize it was causing problems. Being told it's problematic will -probably- be enough.

Your example aside, this still begs the question of “What is considered ‘nuisance behavior’?”. There’s too much variation and no definition, so it will make people wonder what’s okay and what’s not.

Honestly, rules like this should be very cut-and-dry, with very little room for varying interpretations. Not only does this give the community examples to go by, but it also gives the people who are responsible for reviews and dishing out punishments specific guidelines to go by. As it is now, this is all up to the interpretation of the specific GM who gets a case, which may vary from the interpretation of another GM (and I think action will be dependent on that GM’s particular mood that day—we are human, so we aren’t infallible when it comes to making decisions while in a sour mood). That variation has the ability to lead to inconsisitency, which, as I stated in a previous post, leads to frustration because people get confused on what is punishable and what is not.

Some of the guidelines make sense and I find relatively self-explanatory. But some have a wide array of interpretation, and then others are just downright strange (like the one on prohibiting discriminatory remarks made towards thinking... at least the others in that list make sense, but that one I still can’t figure out what they mean... perhaps I should look at the Japanese and see if there’s any kanji to give me an idea of what it could be...).

EDIT: Okay, the Japanese is a little more clear (yet still kind of broad, in my opinion)— they say 思想, which can mean “thought, idea, or ideology”. So, I guess they’re saying you cannot discriminate based on another individual’s particular ideology? If this is the case, the English guidelines should be amended to make that more clear. “Discriminatory expressions made towards thinking” sounds strange and makes very little sense.