Quote Originally Posted by Halivel View Post
If people's first reaction about newly provided clarifications is "now I can't say anything in chat without being banned" - it's honestly not the ToS being a problem then, given that what these examples say is pretty much "don't be a toxic anti-social element". You won't be patted on the head if you speak like in those examples IRL either.

SE being pretty strict about rude behaviour is specfically one of the reasons why this community is regarded as one of the better ones - because people know they can be punished if they act like jerks. Wherever we like it or not, some people are only acting decently under the fear of being ostracized or punished. Is it a good or bad thing? Who knows, it's a complex topic. In an ideal world people would act decently just because they're decent human beings. We aren't in an ideal world, though, so it falls into the company's hands to control how their community is allowed to behave. And SE was never really loose on this.

That said, people dropping just "o/" during dungeon runs in chat has nothing to do with ToS. Chat was never particularly active in FF14 outside of shout in big cities mainly because people go into dungeons to clear them as fast as possible and leave, not to have chit-chat (unless it's Praetoium after making its cutscenes unskippable). If you want to socialize - you usually would do so in a most populated city, FC or linkshells even back in 2013/2014.
I think the concern is that people who are often aggressively sensitive tend to report over the most minor things. I've had a BLM say they're going to report me as I suggested they not sure Fire III to spam but that it's like a stance switch. I couldn't have worded it in a nicer way but they lost it at me.

Just last week a friend asked a tank to move the enemies back into their doton for the tank to lose it and intentionally move it out of every doton, give us a lecture on how they play ninja in savage raids and know it better than them and that they should only doton when the tank says so. I say "maybe don't give a lecture on how to play ninja when you don't even use Arm's Length or line of sight enemies to pull the ranged into a pack" and they then stood still and said they were reporting me.