Quote Originally Posted by Krotoan View Post
If you are risking getting a strike with your help or offering advice, then I have some perception on how you are phrasing or implementing that help and advice. If phrased correctly and you do not escalate (let bad responses go, you don't need to reply) , then there is absolutely no reason you should ever get a "strike".

In my experience anyway.

I think the toxic narrative of "Help and risk being reported" needs to die. It's very easy to stay within guidelines and rules AND still interact with people.
There's definitely a wrong way to help or offer advice to someone but you can't stop people from perceiving things a certain way. Like I said you're more likely to get 2nd hand reported than from the person you're actually conversing with.
There are people in this game who get offended for "teaching" sprouts and will say "you are the reason people don't like to tank" when explaining to sprouts that pulling mobs until you die isn't a bad thing, you won't know your limits unless you try, proceed troll your run by pulling mobs for the tank when they don't get their way and then not see the hypocrisy of their statements.

I personally don't find a reason for knowledge to be kept secret so I'm not going to go out of my way to whisper people after the fact.

It's not toxic, it's the reality of the situation. I wouldn't mind offering all the help in the world if strikes went away. But I don't know how long I'm going to play this game and I'm not risking a permanent strike on my account for nothing.
I have no strikes, and I refuse to give anyone a chance to give me one. That said it's not hard to converse with people casually on non-confrontational issues.

Teaching is confrontational in this game.