Do you tease lalafells?

[Ranaku]

Can we really attribute this as being "toxic" if the offended party is taking offense over a fictional race especially one that looks more like something you would find in a toy store.

I do not like to use the term snowflake but this situation seems to be just that in the case of getting offended by such things. Outrage for the sake of sake outrage is silly.

I mean sure but it doesn't change the outcome. It doesn't change the fact that players who might joke like this towards the wrong players might find themself being punished for it.

And it's not my definition that this is toxic, it's as i said before prohibited behaviour by SE own house rules. It all boils down to this fact, joke as much as you want but someday someone might hit that button to report you. As silly or petty as i think that might be, it won't save them from the punishment.

Dunno why people act like i want to ruin their fun like i invented the rules or something. Or like i run around and massreport players. I don't want anyone to get suspended for these reasons actually but it's their risk. Or as gosetsu said, you cast the die gambling was never my vice.

It's everyones own choice at the end of the day to gamble with their own accounts.

[Awha]

No offense arguing from a position that it might result in account punishment is moot really. The reality is the ToS is written vaguely enough that nearly any interaction can be seen as a violation or not just depends on the interpretation of the GM.

The issue at hand I have is with players that view such actions as harrassment. Which I have ran into some and I am just baffled by how people can view comments made in this context as anything worse then cringe moments.

[Sheriyana]

I don't tease lalafells and I don't like it when people do either. Especially on the EU servers people seem to really hate lalafells, when me and my partner went lala on there my partner got immediately harassed and sent tells about how they were reported by these just for my partner playing a lalafell. My partner also got called a pedophile by like a whole instance of Zadnor and reported by some just for the crime of having Kissu as a first name on a lalafell. The lalafell hate is real and some people take it to insane levels.

And the popoto jokes got old 5 minutes after they were first come up with in ARR, seriously. The XIV community has always had a problem of driving every single joke and meme into the absolute ground, just parroting the same old tired jokes out of what seems more like obligation than anything else.

[Ultaniku]

If it is good natured obviously it’s okay, I mean I joke with my friends who play Miqo’te all the time because they’re playing cats. They in turn joke about be not having eyebrows. It’s all in good fun though.

[Awha]

Let us be real we do not have knees which makes us lesser than.

[Unholychinchilla]

Let us be real we do not have knees which makes us lesser than.

Oh really? What's this then?

[Ultaniku]

Oh really? What's this then?

You have knees!?!?

[Unholychinchilla]

You have knees!?!?

I realise this is a lot to take in, but yes.

[Eldevern]

I roast them with salt and pepper. Is that enough of a tease?

[Hazama999]

Friends? Sure.
Strangers? No. Plenty of times there is simply no telling how a complete stranger is going to react to something you say, regardless of intent or tone. Some people don't mind it. Some people do. The latter, I really can't judge too harshly. If you don't know the person, you straight up just don't know what they might be going through.

Also,

In all seriousness, the only thing I take issue with is just how ancient this community's jokes are.

This.

Used to be my eyes would roll out of their orbits with every "lmaooo lalafell = food" joke, but after 8 years of the same thing, it just sort of... Doesn't register anymore? I believe this is what behaviorists would call... Response extinction? Lol. That said, not everyone has the same threshold, or have been exposed to these jokes for the same period of time, so the response is typically annoyance.