Regarding the Revision of the Prohibited Activities and Account Penalty Policy

[Kaedan]

"inflicts emotional distress by being offensive to another person"

If the person reporting finds it offensive, its offensive regardless how you say it. Doesn't matter how you say it. If the GM sides in their favor then the report will stick.

GMs aren't dumb. In all likelihood, the person making a false claim of "emotional distress" will be the one punished for abusing the report feature (which is also a punishable offense).

[zztoluca]

GMs aren't dumb. In all likelihood, the person making a false claim of "emotional distress" will be the one punished for abusing the report feature (which is also a punishable offense).

Who said anything about being dumb. You assume this will be automated, these are humans with emotions.

[ElHeggunte]

Am I the only one who has at least a modicum in trust in GM’s etc to not abuse this lol?

Idk it’s rare for me to defend dev decisions lol, I usually disagree or I’m indifferent. But I feel like thinking these new rules are going to be used to ban everyone with an opinion is maybe a bit of a knee jerk reaction. [...]

So yeah, I understand why people would be worried that the new ‘rules’ can potentially abused. But I disagree that adding them will affect normal players in any way. If you do get banned, I’d like to assume there’s a reason for it lol

GMs aren't dumb. In all likelihood, the person making a false claim of "emotional distress" will be the one punished for abusing the report feature (which is also a punishable offense).

If we take what they've said as the truth, plenty of people have been banned from the forums for making relatively benign comments while other posters who've said similar or worse never received a single infraction. This cause for concern isn't without precedence.