Quote Originally Posted by xbamfo View Post
How many times I've actually received warnings? None. But I've had an instance where a GM did get talk to me and it took some rather serious convincing to show that the other person was being overly sensitive. The other person didn't help their case by being a flailing idiot the whole time either, but I've still almost gotten in trouble over incredibly minor stuff because people get needlessly offended.
Like it or not, some people are fragile snowflakes and I don't want to get banned from the game because I happen to get unlucky too many times.
An amount of time to pass by without problems should get rid of previous infractions. This would get rid of that possibility.
Doesn't this experience of yours show that the GMs are not trigger happy but rather look into it than being too quickly to ban and give out warnings? I only hear about people having the idea of GMs being like that, but most who thinks so has actually not gotten into any problems with GMs over things that were clearly not against ToS. There is, however, worth noting that there is a problem with what some consider a huge enough offense to warrant a report than others, but a lot of the stories I have heard of people who claims to have been unrightfully warned has been them saying a slur they didn't think about as a slur or were overly offensive or talked openly in chat about using forbidden mods in an inflammatory manner. Note that I say warned as people VERY rarely gets permanent bans for single offenses unless it is very severe.