Hunt Community vs Hunt Snipers

[Malzian]

Sorry to hear about the ban, Arch. However, while I do understand your intentions, being in your Linkshells and all, I can't say I agree with your method of trying to address the issue.

Hunts, by the nature of their implementation, were never meant to be an "everyone gets a chance" system. The core concept is that the people who take the time to find or spawn them have every right to pull and kill the hunt without ever telling another soul about it. Everything else that has been built around them by the community... the hunt guides, the timer sites, the linkshells... all of that is brought forth by the community in an attempt to tune the system to establish that supposed fair baseline. The problem is, it's just a meta structure that isn't itself inherent to the system.

Of course, can't really blame people for trying to do this. We do it all the time in normal life. Experiments have shown that if you set up a line for something that inherently has no line, most people will stand in that line just because it is there. That desire for social conformity drives us to stand there, it makes us feel bad if we were (even if rightly so) to try and cut that line. But there are people out there who just don't care. They will see the line, realize there is no reason for it and simply go around and get what everyone else has been waiting for patiently the whole time.

Does that mean they are wrong for having gone around the line? No, the system never included the line to begin with, so therefore going around it is not implicitly wrong. Does that mean that they should be admonished for it because the society has agreed that the line exists? Well, yes you can admonish them for it (politely), but that doesn't mean you're in the right just because you stood in the line. Should you curse at them and follow them around to make them feel harassed and threatened? No, not at all. Full stop.

You did the things you did for all the good intentions you had to make hunts on our server friendly, welcoming and fair. I applaud your desire to see the inclusion of everyone on getting their chance to enjoy the content as much as you do. However, doing the wrong things for the right reasons does not make those things any less wrong. The ban was handed down for your specific actions, not the intent behind them. You can't harass someone just because you don't agree with how they conduct themselves, especially when that conduct is within the rules. You can work to counteract what they are doing, but attacking them directly only serves to put you in the wrong and the GMs handed down the punishment that they are obligated to give according to the actions you took.