PSA: Don't speak or use emotes in the presence of a toxic clique.

[Enla]

I think a little more context is necessary. Did you just do one or two emotes or did you spam the chat logs? If the former then I definitely think the situation is unwarranted, if the latter I can kinda see why the GM stepped in even if I don't agree with it.

[Gongoosus]

Honestly sounds like a caution strike is SE just saying "hey, cool it" but it's got some of that scary corporate / official protocol speak written across it lol. Not that I was there or anything but just imagining it, would probably feel scary no matter what to get called into the office even though in the principle's view (GM's) all they wanted to say is "eeeh.. careful now".

Sure, but their version of a "hey, cool it." is now attached to my account as a 1 out of 5 strike.

I think a little more context is necessary. Did you just do one or two emotes or did you spam the chat logs? If the former then I definitely think the situation is unwarranted, if the latter I can kinda see why the GM stepped in even if I don't agree with it.

It was myself and three other people talking, emoting and using abilities at each other in a public area over the course of about an hour, so yes the chat was taken up during a period of otherwise complete silence early in the afternoon aside from the occasional gil-selling bot- which I don't think anyone can reasonably say is an abuse of chat.

[Shougun]

Sure, but their version of a "hey, cool it." is now attached to my account as a 1 out of 5 strike.

Sorry I'm blind, just read the FAQ on it, where does SE say 5 cautions becomes something else? Was that said directly by the GM? I don't actually see if the cautions expire either, normally I think it irrelevant if they expired (if they're just referenced for history) but if you've 5 over 10 year period and they don't expire that'd be a bit lame XD.

SE's FAQ:
https://support.na.square-enix.com/f...kid=68098&la=1

If I remember right from reading the rules, they don't have to escalate cautions to something else next time. They can give you another caution at the same level. It's only if you have actual strikes against you that the next 'caution' has to be treated as another strike.

Yeah I was thinking this too, cautions are to be referenced and on their own don't do much (but can interact with more severe events). Not that I'm saying "eeeehh cautions, who cares, get as many as you want!" lol.

[Krojack]

I think a little more context is necessary. Did you just do one or two emotes or did you spam the chat logs? If the former then I definitely think the situation is unwarranted, if the latter I can kinda see why the GM stepped in even if I don't agree with it.

As much as I hate it, spamming emotes should not be a reportable offence and I would never report someone over it. If this IS reportable then SE is literally setting a trap by allowing the system to let people do it. Put a throttle on emotes if it's against the rules. Can't do more than 3 emotes in a 5 second time span else you get throttled and can't do emotes for 30 seconds.