Quote Originally Posted by SomeRandomHuman View Post
Because they're permanent I stopped talking outside of my FC chat and linkshells in-game. If I can't moderate the channel, I don't talk in it because now I'm afraid another overly sensitive snowflake is gonna report me over something stupid.
In theory, yes OP I believe that there should at least be an appeals process where you can have (after a certain period of time) one infraction per certain year amount removed from your record. But, because of people like the above quoted, I say keep it like it is. If the way things are now keeps this person only in channels they can moderate (because moderating their own speech is too difficult, I guess?) and other folks who have decided to use the term snowflake to describe human beings with feelings they've hurt with their behavior are keeping to themselves because of it, I say it's working. Like, how mean are you as a person if your answer to "hey that's hurtful" is "I can't even speak around these snowflakes anymore"? I know it sucks for people like that reddit user. I don't know what to suggest to mitigate that kind of collateral damage. All I know is that WoW had millions of players calling each other snowflakes and I don't play that game anymore for reasons. One of which is that. Strict and permanent punishment for poor behavior is part of what keeps FFXIV game chat from looking like WoW's.