Quote Originally Posted by Saefinn View Post
This is what I wanna know too, after 8 years of being helpful, I've yet to run into any problems like this. I've had a handful of poor attitude people and that's it.

It's why I get the feeling it's more down to a how and not a what. Because normally I find those who aren't very constructive or are rude or put people down tend not to think what they do is any of that.

And it'd be very odd for GM's to moderate people for helping people when the devs are introduced a whole system designed with the intention of helping people and encouraging people to help others...granted it's a broken system but either way, it's intended for helping people.
The bolded part is why I'm disinclined to believe stuff like "you can get banned for telling someone to refresh their dots!". If SE did not want strangers to give advice on how to play they wouldn't have created the mentor system. Having the crown doesn't magically make you immune to any sort of punishment. It's not a get out of jail card.

I've seen some people say "I was only trying to help" when their idea of help was "omfg you need to stack not stand in China". Sure that's telling the person they need to stack, but it's far from being a polite way to put it. I've had to tell quite a few people to do basic things like turn on tank stance and I have managed to avoid punishment even when the player didn't take the advice/request well. You're not going to get in trouble with a GM for saying "please turn on tank stance" or "we need both dps to do aoe".