Roleplay/Partyfinder Discrepancies & Policy Enforcement by GM's

[SturmChurro]

People have filed direct reports about this and received the response that they are reviewing the actions taken by the GM and "will be taking the necessary actions to correct and resolve any mistakes that were made on their behalf", so if anyone got caught up in a blanket ban without cause hopefully at least those can be reversed.

I have complained for years about SE's enforcement of the ToS. You don't really get "warnings", and strikes are forever. It is unfortunate, if some players are actually innocent and have gotten hit. At the very least this brings to light the way SE handles moderation, making more players aware of what really goes on. I am not sure these warnings or strikes will actually be reversed, however.

It's also targeting many non ERP ones too. At no point in the logs is profanity referenced but party finder usage for social purposes.

And if it was profanity I wouldn't expect the solution to be to use /sh or the Fellowship Finder because wouldn't it still be profanity regardless of where it's posted?

There's no separate ToS stipulations for profanity between PF, shout and Fellowship Finder.

So if it IS profanity and this is what they constitute as violating this part of the ToS, then all the GM is doing is saying "go break this rule somewhere else" whilst explaining the broken rule isn't profanity but misusing the PF.

Whilst ERP was the nature of the report we know about, but there is a disconnect between the report and this GM's actions.

Yes, but if they didn't target all party finder advertisements, some adult advertisements* would slip through the cracks. It's called scorched earth for a reason. The goal seems to be ridding PF of ERP, at the cost of regular RP. What players should be asking SE for now is, better social features, or a social finder, etc.

I really wish I could tell you what I thought SE was doing here with the ToS, but I honestly do not know. I have heard, "profanity" is what is being cited as the ToS violation for many of these players. The correlation is the purge of ERP advertisements. As I was saying before, in my opinion, the way SE handles moderation is the issue here. What I think is SE being heavy handed, and selective, with their enforcement of their tos, along with a severe lack of communication only makes this issue worse. It's not like this hasn't been a thing for years, well before RPers were getting hit.