Quote Originally Posted by Diggles View Post
I’ve played MMOs long enough to say with 100% confidence that if your blacklist is full, the problem is probably you.
Here's what people are missing. It's not about fighting, it's not about being annoyed. It is about people breaking the ToS. There was once a forum user now banned who made blatant transphobic posts and insulted another user repeatedly. Now imagine that but an entire chat log between 5 people. I am not talking passive aggressiveness which YMMV or the fishing for upvotes, put me in the screenshot like behavior. I am speaking of users who will will go on tirades dropping the N bomb and so much more.

Now, there has been many a feedback of, "If you say anything you get banned." That is not what I'm getting at. I have also been faced with the argument of, "It's normal for this chat XD" And just because it's normal, doesn't mean it's ok.

Here, for you,

■Nuisance behaviour
"Nuisance behaviour" means speech or behaviour that hurts others or obstructs game play, but which is not classified as harassment. Even if it was not the intention, a penalty may be imposed if the end result was that another person was hurt or obstructed.

Below is a non-exhaustive list of examples of nuisance behaviour:

◆Offensive expression
"Offensive expression" means an expression in general that inflicts emotional distress by being offensive to another person. Offensive expression may include:

・Aggressive expressions such as violent language/slander/insult/threat.
・Expressions that provoke or belittle another person, such as excessive criticism, negation/ridicule
・Expressions that significantly lack consideration for another person
・Expressions that unilaterally reject another person's opinion
・Expressions that any reasonable person would find offensive
・Expressions that compel a playing style
・Expressions that attempt to unilaterally exclude someone from the game or content/community, etc.
(Except when in accordance with rules set by an administrator such as a Free Company Master)
・Expressions that contravene public order and morals
・Other expressions that are offensive to another person

Offensive expressions are prohibited in all places where expressions can be made in Final Fantasy XIV, including chat (including Quick Chat and Emote), markers, comments and names. Use of an offensive expression in the form of a character name is also regarded as nuisance behaviour.