Is it necessary to advertise "LGBTQ+ friendly"

[BrokentoothMarch]

It fully depends on what the situation is about. Is it someone admitting something they did in game? I.e. threatening to do something in the game, admitting something awful done in game etc. Harassment can jump from social media platforms to FFXIV, and its important that if proper evidence is submitted, that the gms look at that. There's also brigades that happen on other social networks, and lead to someone getting mass reported, and/or banned from the game as a result.

It's important for the moderators to be discerning when it comes to outside information, but it should never be dismissed right out of the bag. That would be highly foolish. People have a mindset that admitting in game is bad, but admitting outside of the game doesn't have any effect, and that is not a healthy mentality.

It really does not depend. It didn't happen in-game, so no repercussions in game. These are different ecosystems and no matter how much you intrinsically tie them together, they simply aren't related. And honestly? Good. I'd hate to assume your computer literacy, but you'd probably know how simple it is to Inspect Element and write whatever you damn well please, effectively making false proof that'd pass the Photoshop test, should one even bother to dissect that.

Admitting in game is bad. Admitting out of game doesn't have an affect and SHOULD NOT. Were I to jokingly say I modded the Scions to be sentient pencils on Discord, should that get me nixed? An extreme example, but once we remove the barriers of the ecosystem, things start to slip out of control because we no longer know what is what's jurisdiction.

The mass report is an unfortunate reality of this truth, but competent moderation would more than likely pick up on suddenly 500 instantaneous reports on one single person who never got one before. Though of course, it'd be terrible if I implied moderation in this game was incompetent and that the "Best Community In The Industry" would stoop to such levels. /s

Sarcasm aside, there's no perfect answer to this. I just know I'd be a bit peeved if SE started thinking that things said in completely different aforementioned ecosystems was suddenly their problem. Until Discord is bought by SE, they're separate. For better or for worse.

Report or not, the point is that they exist. Having a group outright say “hey we do not discriminate” is necessary because the alternative is groups like the one the person you replied to mentioned. You’re missing the point.

You disregarded the solution then repeated yourself. I'm sorry, but I can't really make much of this. If you're so set in your ways, then go ahead. It doesn't harm me that people advertise this. I hardly care. I'm simply stating the logic to report and that I avoid those advertisers because most my experiences with them have been a net negative, to say nothing that we're often wholly interested in different things in the game, making the FC or group moot to me.