Roleplay/Partyfinder Discrepancies & Policy Enforcement by GM's

[technole]

Where is it in the terms of service that advertising a venue or event is against it?

I believe you are referring to third party mods which is what YoshiP specifically talked about and said they should stop, there's an entire section in the TOS that specifically talks about 3rd party modifications and the usage of SE intellectual property to profit from such modifications is a straight bannable offence.

So yes, it was a single GM putting their own interpretation which they are not allowed to do.

Senior GMs have warned against using the word Brothel or ERP on PF but stopped short of telling people not to use PF for venues/event advertising and there's plentiful evidence of that from Octobers sting operation as some of those venues were also doing illicit RMT.

So if someone is using those words, that's a fair judgement by the GM but this is absolutely not the case from the screenshot evidence.

This kind of stuff can land legal in hot water, that's why they don't do that.

Current ToS really allows them free interpretation of how someone is breaking the rules.

You also can't misrepresent things, like you can't advertise something under duty roulette title when it's not. That's a reportable action if you are misleading people. Nevermind the brothel term.

You should look at how they interpret the ToS when they banned Arthars for being toxic to someone on twitch, but not in-game. Or the person who leaked pictures of what was in the TEA patch on twitter before the servers went up. These GMs didn't just login for their first day on the job yesterday, they also aren't dumb to not know what brothel means. In fact they may visit your advertised brothel since they can be invisible anywhere in Eorzea.

[Taytay]

Current ToS really allows them free interpretation of how someone is breaking the rules.

"Fast and loose" is not a great way to enforce your ToS, especially in the 2021 climate of the collective internet raising their blood pressure over the most benign things.

[SavishSalacious]

"Fast and loose" is not a great way to enforce your ToS, especially in the 2021 climate of the collective internet raising their blood pressure over the most benign things.

Like male viera. LOL

[Reinard]

"Fast and loose" is not a great way to enforce your ToS, especially in the 2021 climate of the collective internet raising their blood pressure over the most benign things.

Exactly this.