Quote Originally Posted by Immut View Post
A blacklist is a blacklist. You can call it whatever kind of list you want, but here's how a "community" blacklist would work:

1. Someone would be in charge of it.
2. That person would form their own clique at the top to manage it
3. One of them will do something inappropriate with a minor
4. Anyone who speaks out about it will end up on the blacklist.

Or some similar drama. The end result being the blacklist just results in a powerful clique that tries to give themselves the authority to pick and choose who gets to play the game based on increasingly petty until the toxicity reaches its peak and the entire thing implodes. This community has a hard time keeping a hunt linkshell open for more than 2 weeks without blowing up, you really want to trust anyone else to tell you who's toxic and who's not?
Exactly this. Public blacklists aren't actually anything new and they always just devolve into a tool to bully people.

There's also a 0% chance SE wouldn't start throwing down very harsh bans within 24 hours if people start sharing a public name-and-shame list in PF. Bullying other players is like... literally the only thing FFXIV moderation cares about. It's THE cardinal sin here. I promise you they don't care if you tell them "b-but we have 4 witnesses saying they griefed!", it's completely out of touch to suggest that somehow makes it ToS compliant.