They Should Add An Official Damage Meter With One Condition

[Saraide]

Aye, yeah the point of the all these threads are to have a civil discussion about how certain features should be added to the game as a baseline. Hardly any of them are about how silly it is to be punished for breaking a rule regarding 3rd party tools.

The point is that certain "rule breaks" are not worth to go after because they dont go against the underlying idea of why those rules were put in place. SE instead of that appears to go by what malicous no-life forum dwellers on 5chan tell them to do. The approach of going by whatever the mob on that forum decides will always lead to people who havent harmed anyone will get hit. There is nothing stopping these people from just making up evidence either. They have done so in the past.

[Ivtrix]

The point is that certain "rule breaks" are not worth to go after because they dont go against the underlying idea of why those rules were put in place. SE instead of that appears to go by what malicous no-life forum dwellers on 5chan tell them to do. The approach of going by whatever the mob on that forum decides will always lead to people who havent harmed anyone will get hit. There is nothing stopping these people from just making up evidence either. They have done so in the past.

The dingo story comes to mind. 5chan faked images of him using 3rd party addons. He was banned, his abuser was not. Clown world ������

[Bobby66]

The point is that certain "rule breaks" are not worth to go after because they dont go against the underlying idea of why those rules were put in place. SE instead of that appears to go by what malicous no-life forum dwellers on 5chan tell them to do. The approach of going by whatever the mob on that forum decides will always lead to people who havent harmed anyone will get hit. There is nothing stopping these people from just making up evidence either. They have done so in the past.

Who is the one that defines what rule breaks are worth going after? I agree the rules should better reflect what is allowed and what is not allowed. This whole gray area of don't talk about it, and one will not get punished has always been a dangerous one in my opinion. I agree it is not easy to come up with an exhausted list of approved addons and I get it will have to be monitored and changing the ToS to reflect such adjustments would be annoying and most likely not even worth the effort.

Also we cannot say for certain it is done with malicious intent across the board by an objective metric. Sure based around common sense it is that way, but one thing I do say about GM's here at SE they hardly ever punish based around circumstantial evidence, which for better or worse does allow for such acts like this and many others to go unpunished or punished unjustly. Sure no system is perfect and some GM's do not do their due diligence. In these case we cannot say that to be, the person that was banned did have 3rd party tools clearly visible.

The rules should be changed, but those who broke the rules are not victims here. Even if an army of no lifers made it their mission to ruin their fun. SE is not selectively targeting them. I do hope SE does add many plugin features as a baseline, but I also do feel that we should inform those that do openly use 3rd party tools the inherent risks that come with doing such. MrHappy, is a good example man streams without using 3rd party tools. It is possible, want to stream and not get punished do not use 3rd party tools until a change is made.

[Jaquan]

So then just let us use our own without being afraid of eating a ban because some puritanical loser wants to do a funny?

If you leave no proof, mention it nowhere when it can be linked to your character then you're free to use them. You won't be banned for those simply due to lack of proof unless you post a screenshot or stream with the damage tracker visible. Crazy Puritans can kiss your behind if they won't have any proof or at the very least you won't get banned for 3rd party tools.

[Saraide]

Who is the one that defines what rule breaks are worth going after?

Well what constitutes a rule break worth going after is the central question of this entire thing, isnt it? For that it could not be less helpful and constructive than to point at the exact letters of the ToS.

[Saimeren]

You really think there won't be any toxicity over "your damage sucks"?

I think you might be a little delusional. I'm willing to bet that most people use/want damage meters not to see their own dps improve and learn from the data, but rather to see if they're better than the other guy.

Gamers have big egos. A lot of us just want to be the best. We want to blow things up and see big numbers. And if my number is bigger than your number then I win.

And I'm willing to bet that that's the primary reason people want damage meters. But they won't admit it of course.

[Klytania]

Gamers have big egos. A lot of us just want to be the best. We want to blow things up and see big numbers. And if my number is bigger than your number then I win.

And? TOS stays the same.

You inadvertently exposed why a lot of people DON'T want it in the game. It's not because of "toxicity" it's because people don't want their performance quantified with readily accessible objective data.

[Elesh]

Who is the one that defines what rule breaks are worth going after? I agree the rules should better reflect what is allowed and what is not allowed. This whole gray area of don't talk about it, and one will not get punished has always been a dangerous one in my opinion. I agree it is not easy to come up with an exhausted list of approved addons and I get it will have to be monitored and changing the ToS to reflect such adjustments would be annoying and most likely not even worth the effort.

Also we cannot say for certain it is done with malicious intent across the board by an objective metric. Sure based around common sense it is that way, but one thing I do say about GM's here at SE they hardly ever punish based around circumstantial evidence, which for better or worse does allow for such acts like this and many others to go unpunished or punished unjustly. Sure no system is perfect and some GM's do not do their due diligence. In these case we cannot say that to be, the person that was banned did have 3rd party tools clearly visible.

The rules should be changed, but those who broke the rules are not victims here. Even if an army of no lifers made it their mission to ruin their fun. SE is not selectively targeting them. I do hope SE does add many plugin features as a baseline, but I also do feel that we should inform those that do openly use 3rd party tools the inherent risks that come with doing such. MrHappy, is a good example man streams without using 3rd party tools. It is possible, want to stream and not get punished do not use 3rd party tools until a change is made.

If a petty thief, a shoplifter, gets run over by a car... is he a victim?

I'd say yes. You can be a criminal ANd a victim. The people have broken a fairly minor rule with very minimal harm to others. So yes, the punishment from SE is justified. But the targeted harassment of the community was not justified. And thus I'd say yes, they qualify both as rulebreaker and victim. And while their punishment should hold... as I said earlier in this thread, the people who orchestrated the harassment campaign for no reason? They should be banned too. Because they're far worse for the community and harassment is DEFINITELY also against the ToS. Including using 'reporting' as a form of harassment.

[Bobby66]

Well what constitutes a rule break worth going after is the central question of this entire thing, isnt it? For that it could not be less helpful and constructive than to point at the exact letters of the ToS.

If we go based off the current ToS then isn't going after those that use any 3rd party tool a rule break worth going after? What information would be more helpful and constructive to use to determine what is a rule break worth punishing?

If a petty thief, a shoplifter, gets run over by a car... is he a victim?

I'd say yes. You can be a criminal ANd a victim. The people have broken a fairly minor rule with very minimal harm to others. So yes, the punishment from SE is justified. But the targeted harassment of the community was not justified. And thus I'd say yes, they qualify both as rulebreaker and victim. And while their punishment should hold... as I said earlier in this thread, the people who orchestrated the harassment campaign for no reason? They should be banned too. Because they're far worse for the community and harassment is DEFINITELY also against the ToS. Including using 'reporting' as a form of harassment.

I would not say those are the same, the shoplifer is a victim of being hit by the car. The case regarding the 3rd party tools they are victims of targeted harassment, they broke a rule and got reported. The targeted harassment is a byproduct of their rule break. I mean maybe if the shoplifer was hit by the car trying to avoid the police and did not look both ways and ran into ongoing traffic then yeah I would also say they lose all rights to being a victim in that regard also.

Yes it is against the rules but the problem with the report as a form of harassment is one of those things you cannot objectively prove and I doubt anyone wants GM's to ban people on feeling or subjective takes. I agree on a personal level it is harassment, but I will say best way to protect oneself from that form of harassment is to just not give such people ammo.

[Saraide]

If we go based off the current ToS then isn't going after those that use any 3rd party tool a rule break worth going after? What information would be more helpful and constructive to use to determine what is a rule break worth punishing?

Obviously going by wether these people are causing harm to other players should be the central thing to care about.