Quote Originally Posted by Xirean View Post
While I do think it's stupid to not inform the person of their alleged wrong doings; to be taken to the actual GM jail requires more than just one bad incident (unless it was an insanely bad incident). If this pair were playing together for a while and had this banter the entire time and only now is the tank being reprimanded for it then they were likely accruing reports for a while. The action taken in that instance is because of a noticed pattern of reported chat behavior. Depending on how much they banter back and forth it wouldn't surprise me if the healer also had collected a good number of reports as well.

As frustrating as that situation can be, you do need to take into account that other people often cannot tell the difference between a random person being rude to another and friends joking with each other in an online space.
Gonna be real with you, I was paraphrasing most of that since I read it years ago. He could've been replying to an email about the strike or something. My main point was when he tried to communicate with the team about it, they slapped him with "it doesn't matter that no real harm occurred, what matters is someone was offended enough on behalf of somebody else to report you in the first place." This is the crux of the issue. And when it comes to usernames, it leaves the door wide open for anyone to get butthurt about something wholly unrelated and then just report a person's name to get back at them or something. It's baffling to me how the whole system's ripe for abuse, while simultaneously useless where it's actually needed.