
Originally Posted by
VoidsentStatus
Happy this post is partially on subject so I can respond to the other section.
1) I wasn't kicked out of anything. If you paid attention instead of skimming, I was on Aether, and the discords I mentioned were on Crystal, that I was in for research but didn't actually engage with because that wasn't my home. It was an example of how someone could take an event from one data center and share it to another without context and cause problems. The only Aether venue that actually removed me had a venue owner that got flack afterward when they made it public at my request that they had a policy of banning people from their venue off of accusations alone, and you'd have to prove yourself innocent after. I even had them apologize to me afterward in DM's when I showed them proof they banned me for no reason. I left because I knew 4+ owners on Aether that knew about malicious things in the community and they wanted to look away and did not care.
2) I HATE LALAFELL NSFW. *GRABS YOUR EAR, AND YANKS YOU CLOSE TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN HEAR ME* WHAT PART OF RESPECT DO PEOPLE MISS WHEN I'M SPEAKING. If I wanted to call out anything I thought was gross, I'd be going to every makeup mod artist on twitter and telling them that splashing a rainbow on their face is gross. But I know how to keep my mouth shut because my personal taste/opinion isn't important because at the end of the day, no matter how loud I could bark about it, they'd still exist with a large market of interest, same as lalafell. You speaking your opinion doesn't manifest any meaningful results besides harassment.
3) No, they cannot exclude people for any reason. In private settings, yes, but in public, no. Not from communities.
"Expressions that attempt to unilaterally exclude someone from the game or content/community, etc."
(Except when in accordance with rules set by an administrator such as a Free Company Master)
Outside of the unrealism of having to teach conversation tricks/corners to wall people into a violation to every random lalafell in the community, it's off-game exclusion that often I have a problem with. Most venues are actually easy to get banned once you know the tricks because they're rude and think they can ban anyone for any reason out of their venue and that's not the case. You need a reason for it, and it can't be just any reason such as one of the examples given: ""Don't join if your equipment is that bad/such a low item level." That isn't allowed. But most, will try to argue and end breaking "Expressions that unilaterally reject another person's opinion." because they don't know how to debate and be understanding of other people. They want to think their word is God when Square wants people to be understanding and have healthy conversations.