Hunt Community vs Hunt Snipers

[Aylis]

You are correct. I broke the rules by resetting their hunt, and allowing more people to make it to the kill. I don't feel sorry for that.
My real problem is that these players are actively griefing the entire community of people who are also interested in ARR S ranks and other hunts, and nothing is done about them. Their behavior is ugly and detrimental to the common good, whereas my actions were taken in an effort to change the behavior of one or two players (yes, I 'griefed' them). I don't feel sorry for that either.

The thing is by the rules, those players are not actively greifing the community. The rules by SE state hunts are first come first serve. If that group has the force to kill the mob, then it is what it is. Those are the rules SE will enforce. Community rules no matter how good their intentions are, they are just that. They're player created rules. SE, or any company for that matter will never defend player created rules over their own rules for the game. The road to darkness is paved with good intentions and trying to enforce your own rules over the games rules will always make you the bad person in the end in the eyes of the games company. You or anyone else won't change this and trying to /change behavior/ is just going to make them mad enough to file reports which leads to well, a ban for the one that did break the games rules. Then they'll just go on their merry way to look for a next hunt alone.

It was a lesson learned a long time ago in EQ, the games rules will always stick over player rules. WE had a Server Guild Council which was a player agreement of all the raiding guilds on the server to handle raid rotations for all open world raid mobs. Our server was the last server as well that had The Sleeper. It was a player created rule to not wake the sleeper. Well, one night a guild that was on its way to disbanding decide to send a last message to the server by waking him up. Doing this left a long lasting negative impact to current and up and coming raid guilds since with the sleeper gone, they could not farm avatar weapons no more for the dps classes. The server was rilled to say the least. The guild members involved were trained, harassed, and greifed anyway they could be by the server. In the end, none of that guilds members got banned or even a warning, only the ones targeting them got the bans.