Account Penalties Decrease after Each year (add as a rule)

[Kaurhz]

No thanks. If you don't want to get into these sorts of issues then think before using your keyboard and not do it in the first place. There's nothing difficult about being a sensible person.

[Sakuraluna]

To OP:

I can understand where you're coming from in that some people will mature over time and that if you're playing a game for a period of years, something you did back when you were 13 and didn't know any better shouldn't be held against you as an adult, but at the same time, I've played these games for years and not once have I been reported for something that a gm has felt the need to contact me over. It's not hard to get by without being reported if you're reasonably polite and stick to yourself and your own groups. Typically the ones I report are putting energy into trolling and/or being blatantly disrespectful, and even then, the majority of those cases I wouldn't consider enough to put a mark on their account unless they've been reported for the same behavior often enough. I think that if your behavior is enough to count against you, and it's consistent enough to practically get you banned, then hopefully getting banned will be enough to get through to you that it's not okay to act that way.

I also don't quite understand the mentality that you can't play the game anymore for fear of getting reported and banned, because if you're afraid of getting banned, wouldn't you just quit acting out instead of trying to excuse yourself and place blame elsewhere? Which would mean that you're still free to play the game as you wish as long as your behavior towards other players changes.

[Tridus]

I'd support this in some form. Possibly not all the way back to "never offended" status, but back down to "first offense" instead of "you're getting nailed to the wall if we hear from you again."

People do learn over time and if they were dumb 3 years ago and got into lots of issues, a minor infraction after 3 years of being clean doesn't deserve the firing squad. It deserves a minor offense and a warning not to backslide.

[Okamimaru]

It's not that difficult to not be a dick... takes more energy to type something rude/vulgar/hostile than to not type anything at all

[akaneakki]

While I do recognize the f-word is the most versatile word in the English language and can have a variation of it used for almost every word of a sentence and still have said sentence be intelligible, you can express yourself without it. SE isn't a US government agency. They aren't bound by the 1st amendment and can set speech limitations while using their services.

So, we all gonna go around reporting people because of a word they don't like? Put the filter on then? It's there for a reason you know :>

[hynaku]

Best thing don't complain or say anything rude in a dungeon. Then after its over just blacklist the one having problems with.

[DeaconMoore]

So, we all gonna go around reporting people because of a word they don't like? Put the filter on then? It's there for a reason you know :>

Or save some effort and don't take the extra time to write out profanity that might get a report made on you. Whose to say the person making the report didn't have the filter on?

[akaneakki]

Or save some effort and don't take the extra time to write out profanity that might get a report made on you. Whose to say the person making the report didn't have the filter on?

You know what's funny? I could go around saying ???? all the time, so I will get reported for that too? That guy mostlikely didn't have the filter on at all, because if he was, why did he get offended?

Anyways I think I will stop here, because it's clearly okay to go report people for saying question marks lol. Well asuming he did use the filter which I believe he didn't.
Also 1 more thing, someone got a warning on their account because they asked a person to please call out Hunts so the community can participate. That's also very amazing.
But yeah, let's support that while we at it .

[Sakuraluna]

because it's clearly okay to go report people for saying question marks lol.

No one said it was...

someone got a warning on their account because they asked a person to please call out Hunts so the community can participate. That's also very amazing.

IMO, it depends on how that person went about asking that favor. If they told you about it after the fact, then it's hearsay. They could have very easily left out major details in regards to their own words and actions in order to get sympathy from you, happens all the time, so I can't say that I believe this happened as you say it did.

[Nix]

IMO, it depends on how that person went about asking that favor. If they told you about it after the fact, then it's hearsay. They could have very easily left out major details in regards to their own words and actions in order to get sympathy from you, happens all the time, so I can't say that I believe this happened as you say it did.

Exactly.

You don't get a warning for saying "Excuse me, can you please call out the hunts so that we can all take part?" lol.