The decline of the community

[Awha]

Except you can request this data by doing a data subject access request, this much is specified within their Privacy Policy if you look hard enough. They will supply you with the direct log which resulted in your warning/suspension. In fact, the only thing I disagree with in terms of handling here is that upon being reported the GMs should supply you with the email to do such and explain the process.

Reporting people out of spite isn't something I agree with, no, obviously. But if I feel someone has deliberately gone out of their way to not follow the terms of service, be it slurs, insults, and other things of a similar nature which may encompass or suffice for harassment then I'm going to report you, simple as. It prevents you from doing that exact same behavior with someone else.

If I had to resort to the blocklist like you're suggesting for potential infractions then my blacklist would cease to have space on it. Call it being soft, foul, or whatever. People should be held accountable for their actions. I can also at the very least say people crying profanity filter when they got a suspension or a warning more than likely are only telling part of the story in order to justify their own actions.

I will take your word that you can request such information, though why a GM just does not tell you on the spot is beyond me. Though some do. That being said most do not read the ToS, let alone Privacy Policy. Though since I have not read it, I have a strong suspicion that it does not carry over 100% to in-game interactions and data.

In the end you are free to report whoever you want for whatever you want that is fine. I have been reported and I own up my strikes. That being said I just have a personal issue with how vague the ToS is, and how the game offers tools to avoid certain things yet one can still be reported despite those tools in place. Though you probably are largely right that more to the story, when I was reported for my language the person in question did ask me to stop in party chat but I just ignored them and moved, still dropped the f bomb every so often it was not aimed towards anyone. Though I most likely got a strike due to the fact they asked me to stop and I did not.

Still personally that was a petty reason to report someone cause if they just add their filter on all they would see is ???? no harm no foul. Though they are free to report cause I did break the ToS no matter how silly said ToS can be. Though I do think being held accountable is a two way street, people should also be accountable for their own safety and sanity. If a game provides you tools to avoid certain things you may not want to see then they should be using said feature end of story, and if they were using said feature it should not matter if people are cursing. Now if people try to bypass the filter that is a different story.

Personally I do think it is soft, across every MMO I have played I have had to blacklist one person and that was a guild mats GF that was annoying in raids and I just wanted to pretend they did not exist.