Regarding the Revision of the Prohibited Activities and Account Penalty Policy

[PharisHanasaki]

But I emotionally distressed them, regardless if I intended to or not. If this scenario were to happen today, I would be susceptible to a penalization. Additionally they would also be susceptible to the penalization. However I was not under emotional distress when this occurred, so shouldn't we find an equitable solution and ban me instead? Only then would our emotional damage be equivalent, mine from being banned, and theirs for getting triggered by my healer performance.

You are problaby not in emotiobal distress. You may be upset, annoyed, etc. But as I said, if you are truly experiencing emotional distress, report and talk to a doctor. Because it's unhealthy and I know it from experience. I understand you are used to thinking of the worst case scenario. But they probably udated the rules due to thenumber of reports that did not technically infringe the ToS, but should have.

[Thatusernameistaken]

You are problaby not in emotiobal distress. You may be upset, annoyed, etc. But as I said, if you are truly experiencing emotional distress, report and talk to a doctor. Because it's unhealthy and I know it from experience. I understand you are used to thinking of the worst case scenario. But they probably udated the rules due to thenumber of reports that did not technically infringe the ToS, but should have.

But the whole point many of us are making in here is that you have no way of knowing if someone else is in actual emotional stress in a video game. You also have no way of knowing what will cause a specific person emotional stress if you've never played with them before. So how on earth are we supposed to know how to conduct ourselves aside from saying absolutely nothing (which someone could feasibly interpret as offensive as well). These rules theoretically leave absolutely no safe choice of conduct, since literally anything could be taken as offensive by someone. So all these rules do is completely throw out any sense of a code of conduct because there are no strict definitions given.

And don't get me wrong, I understand and completely acknowledge that very few people are going to be wrongfully punished by this system and the vast majority of players won't be affected at all by this. But it's the fact that it's even theoretically possible that people are worried about.

[Tiraelina]

But the whole point many of us are making in here is that you have no way of knowing if someone else is in actual emotional stress in a video game. You also have no way of knowing what will cause a specific person emotional stress if you've never played with them before. So how on earth are we supposed to know how to conduct ourselves aside from saying absolutely nothing (which someone could feasibly interpret as offensive as well). These rules theoretically leave absolutely no safe choice of conduct, since literally anything could be taken as offensive by someone. So all these rules do is completely throw out any sense of a code of conduct because there are no strict definitions given.

And don't get me wrong, I understand and completely acknowledge that very few people are going to be wrongfully punished by this system and the vast majority of players won't be affected at all by this. But it's the fact that it's even theoretically possible that people are worried about.

If you have to ask what kind of emotional stress, you're not causing it. They're not talking about minor annoyances. They don't care that someone disagreed with someone else. They're talking about actual harassment, stalking, dehumanizing, abuse, etc. The play style section is referring to things like beating people over the head with self-imposed hunt rules expecting everyone else to follow them. The entire FATE fiasco with Dark Devices. These rules are built off things that occurred.