Holy now a bannable spell.

[Alaray]

reporting someone for using an in-game ability in one spot is pretty petty

actually getting punished for it is pretty stupid

[Raim]

I like how you guys continue to try and downplay it and compare it to crafting or melding. Deep down you know its wrong. You craft and meld in town. Theres the market board. You don't craft out in the field where theres monsters. You don't spam Holy in town because theres no monsters. Thus the only reason to spam Holy minutes on end is to annoy people intentionally, which is why they took action. He had the intent of annoying people with spam. You can waste your time reporting crafters, but the GM is just going to laugh at you and dismiss the case because INTENT is what matters when determining spam.

[Canadane]

I think the worst thing that's come of this game is people using the term ban when they are in fact only suspended.

[Alleo]

The twitter post to this problem really has some rude people in it. x) I would not want to be a GM of FF14 on there.

Also there has been cases of people being punished for spamming emotes. Its not surprising that it would be the same for such skills. Also big question: Why spam it? The only reason I can see that someone spams a blinding and loud skill in the middle of people is to annoy them.

[Payadopa]

I don't agree with it, but to be fair Holy is one annoying spell. I don't get the short cast time in the first place.

[DBriggs304]

Can i report players who has a glamour that i dont like to look at?
Can i report and get banned someone for socializing with other people? I am lonely bugger and seeing people playing together makes me mad.
Can i report people playing songs the wrong way? Its also annoying and even disrespectful.
Can i ask where is the line ending this madness??

Im guessing It ended long before all of these ridiculous scenarios.

[fumofu]

But why defend spamming?

But why encourage neuroticism? Overly sensitive hysteric snowflakes should be simply ignored, not encouraged. It's beyond me why SE finds it's necessary to act on such 'offenses'.

[CrocodileRocking]

But why encourage neuroticism? Overly sensitive hysteric snowflakes should be simply ignored, not encouraged. It's beyond me why SE finds it's necessary to act on such 'offenses'.

Why are you offended by people being offended snowflake much?

[Edax]

By this logic, then crafters are bannable by spamming "Failed to attach materia" in the chat log, or its a bannable offence to craft in general in cities.

Unlikely that attaching the materia is the player intentionally trying to be annoying. Yes we spam attacks in a fight because that serves a purpose, spamming holy in a city does not. The intent is clear when you spam holy in a city and people understand that, which is they opted to report that player because they are not going to stop otherwise.

But why encourage neuroticism? Overly sensitive hysteric snowflakes should be simply ignored, not encouraged. It's beyond me why SE finds it's necessary to act on such 'offenses'.

If you try to annoy people and call them snowflakes when they react, then you hand the troll all the power they need. Intent is everything, players who don't want to put up with people intentionally trying to be annoying in cities aren't being "hysterical" as you claim. If you can't stand these players who don't want to be harassed then stop being a overly sensitive snowflake and just ignore them.

[Joven]

Honestly I don't understand some of the notifications that pop-up in the chat log to begin with. Like why do I need a notification whenever someone else crafts an item? Or even that I crafted the item? I already know that I crafted the item. Or when I or someone else gathers items. I can see when someone else levels up, that's a *somewhat* special occasion to be celebrated. Usually the first thing I do when starting a new character is edit out my chat log to display only /tell, /say, /party or any linkshells I have active.