Mentors...please!

[Barraind]

The community has shown countless times that it cannot police itself

MMO communities are more than capable of policing themselves and have been for decades.

Developers just realized its easier to design workarounds to game elements that required people to not be donkeys, and monetize server, race, and name changes to further allow people to separate themselves from their actions. Thus, you get more nonsense and less of a way for the community to dictate what it feels acceptable. We all know someone with stories that start "I had to move servers / realms / datacenters / clusters / realm groups / ect because of something I did".

[Penthea]

MMO communities are more than capable of policing themselves and have been for decades.

If that is the case then why do we regularly have threads with people complaining about mentors not even doing the bare minimum their role represents and sometimes even being rude? Why do people regularly say NN on their server is a disaster, and has been for years? If the community could police itself these complaints would be rare, not super common.

We all know someone with stories that start "I had to move servers / realms / datacenters / clusters / realm groups / ect because of something I did".

In my experience this only happens to people who end up causing enough crap to not only lose all their friends but also gain a status of notoriety that becomes known outside of their social circles. Most people do not end up in a situation like this either through luck or having enough sense to know when to tone it down for a while. This situation is an extreme, not the norm.