Petition to have the right to post about players in our community

[Matsume]

Slander: a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report.

Defamation—also called calumny, vilification, traducement, slander (for transitory statements), and libel (for written, broadcast, or otherwise published words)—is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government, or nation a negative image.

If you post inended to 'give an individual a negative image' by definition you hath commited defamation and thus slander. I hate to parse semantics, so please, lets not do this again.

Accountability may not be important to you, but it is to me. That's just how it's going to be.

First of all, not once did I say accountability is not important to me - that is an assumption on your part based on a single post of mine (should I remind you that to assume only makes an ASS out of U and ME?)

Also, I've expressed negative sentiments about typical Americanisms myself, and being American, it's really easy to do, but I honestly can't stand when someone on the internet starts throwing it out there as a weight for their point. It's typical of people, and not one nation. That adage is actually a really bad example of this case, imo.

As for the second part, Yes!, you are right that the adage is a really bad example of this case, I whole heartedly agree, but it did not stop the adage from popping up into my head? Why is that? Because Masamune said: "Aww, they took it down? Why do the most fun threads always get deleted ; ;. " Which leads the reader to believe he thought it was fun that you made a thread denouncing another players actions. This is like someone having fun publicly stoning a "witch".

I said the thread was fun, not slandering. Nice assumptions there.

I didn't make an assumption Masamune, you claimed his thread - which intended to give a player a negative image (slander/Defamation)- was fun. Just because you call it X does not mean it isnt Y.

On-Topic: Threads about people behaving this way wouldn't be necessary if the GMs would do their job. When someone goes around harassing others and the person doesn't get banned for it, people need to know that that person is someone who you don't want to be around. If I was a new player and my first party experience ended with me getting harassed, then I reported him and still saw him around, I'd probably quit honestly. Something needs to be done, and if the GMs won't do it, it's up to the players themselves to warn others.

Why do you think a GMs job consists of banning other players for harassment? I can pull up a GM job application right now, and that is not part of the job description. It is your responsibility as a player is to Blacklist someone if they cause you trouble, not cry to a GM to fix every little issue you have with this game.

Furthermore you can post in your LS chat that player X has caused you trouble, and word will spread. If others experience the same issue, they too will blacklist player X and eventually he will find himself all alone. If you want quit because a GM wont do what you think they should do to a player that caused you problems that you refuse to blacklist, then by all means, quit.

Players should be able to warn each other in game without having to resort to a Scarlet Letter thread that could tarnish a players reputation going on into the future. Look another post mentioned, this player could have been having a bad day and might have just been blowing off steam at anyone and everyone around him. Does this really merit a forum thread dedicated to proving he is someone to avoid?