Are movie spoilers against the ToS?

[Crystal_Raven]

You can already get banned for using curse words that don't target anyone if you do it enough times.

This is just depressing. So basically never say anything ever again in chat at any point to have no risk of being banned.

[Vnolan]

This is just depressing. So basically never say anything ever again in chat at any point to have no risk of being banned.

Only if you're unable to communicate without using profanity.

[Physic]

I'd hope you can see how absolutely insane this whole thing really is.

Things like what OP is saying is the risk of being online. Someone will probably spoil everything, it's just part of the internet.

The fact that some of you think it's actually acceptable to potentially ban an account over something like this is just insane. There's something seriously wrong with people who think warning/banning an entire account which is pretty expensive if you had one for years for a comment is just mindbogglingly stupid.

Punishing someone for stepping out of line? Seriously? The 1984 book is supposed to be a warning, not a guideline for you lot.

The authorities should be involved in serious matters, not this. This thread is a joke.

My coworker spoiled Endgame for me, let me just go cry to the authorities because he spoiled a movie for me!

If your co worker intentionally said something designed just to piss you off? People have gotten punched in the face for less.

also, getting reported for this would be mild censure, if they chose to take action, it would probably be like a one day ban tops. So spoiler loses 50 cents of play time, however he may have ruined 15$ movie for 1-140 people. Its not the government polices raiding your homes.


not sure why people think its cool to be a jerk to people, and they are supposed to just accept it. Why does the ahole have a right to do whatever he wants to other people scott free.

[JunseiKei]

You can already get banned for using curse words that don't target anyone if you do it enough times.

I seriously doubt this. XIV comes with a profanity filter checked on by default- it's opt out by choice. Furthermore, you absolutely can get warnings and bans for evading a filter, which is probably the culprit and not simply saying curse words in general. Or harassing (as continuously being aggressive toward someone is, in fact, harassment).

[Physic]

It's disconcerting how many people today have become absolute whinebabies about even the tiniest of things.

lets be honest, being a jerk online and complaining about people doing something about it is the real whinebaby action. Waaah i tried to annoy someone and they tried to annoy me back, waaahhh they are so wrong for being a jerk about me being a jerk.

if you are going to go around attacking people expect they will attack you back. Take the one day ban that likely will never come like a thug.

[Physic]

So you think that putting an account at risk that may have a very large sum of money invested in it is okay to do over a movie?

That says a lot about your character.

dont be an ahole then? And we are talking a one day ban best case scenario. Now, if you have a ton of previous offenses, maybe you ll get completely banned, but thats would be because you have a history of violating the tos and getting reported for it. Most people dont report, so by the time that happens, you must have been a real problem for quite some time

[Crystal_Raven]

Only if you're unable to communicate without using profanity.

Half of my friends regularly insult each other. We call each other names, mock each other, because we're friends, we find it funny. We don't do it to randoms.

Your comment is worrying me that we may get banned because we choose to mock each other and make fun of each other when we play alone.

[Physic]

Well mate you're playing an MMO, a Massively Multiplayer Online game. marvel on social media has also been posting the same things of "Please Don't Post Endgame Spoilers!", and most people generally avoid social media in multiple forms right now (including games) for the thought of someone even attempting to do that.

I think most of us here agree it's rude to do it but the moment you log in to this game or even go on this forum you have only yourself to blame.

most internet cultures nowadays would action someone for spoiling a big movie on purpose. And yeah, you take a risk when you go outside that bad things may hapoen to you, that doesnt mean you accept them with no attempt at vengeance, justice etc.

If a dude spits in your face are you just supposed to put your head down and ignore it, because when you leave your house you know anything can happen? Why does the ahole suffer no consequences.

im not a report happy person, but i wouldnt begrudge some one else the only form of payback/justice available to them in game.

[Physic]

No, it's not reportable.

Harassment entails proving someone was purposely doing something to harm, anger or otherwise disrupt someone's experience within the game. Simply stating a spoiler once does not equate irrefutable proof that it was done with those intentions and any investigations done would reflect that, especially if it was done out of no where. All a person has to say to a GM if contacted, "Oh, I thought I was in Discord, but I guess I was still in shout in XIV." That's what I mean by needing irrefutable proof - there needs to be something there to disprove even that. It sucks, but when staff have to investigate, they can only go off of what they have evidence of, not what they morally think is right or wrong.

Disruption would be removing players without probable cause (randomly kicking a person for no reason from a party or intentionally waiting for a certain place to remove someone for a disruptive reason - like tolerating someone until the lass boss of a dungeon and then removing them) to more technical matters like DDoSing servers because you don't like something being done in XIV.

It sucks you got something spoiled you'd prefer not to, but you have other means of trying to reduce your exposure (disabling shout, yell, alliance chats - you don't need to see what others are saying most of the time in Eureka as long as you can follow the train, know where your party is farming or just shout you need a party for Y). Especially reporting for something completely unrelated to the game, regardless of what players may think morally, is not something the XIV moderation team is obligated to enforce.

Let me be completely transparent here: I am not advocating spoiling of things and doing it with the intention of making others mad. I'm not even saying it's tolerable behavior. I am stating reporting for this does fall under misuse of reports.

On a completely ironic note: Your report would spoil it for whichever GM had to take it. I hope they weren't trying to avoid spoilers and/or saw it already.

he said the dude did it repeatedly with no convo about it, in shout chat. it was no accident. but even if it was the gms would notice that and respond accordingly. Report does not equal ban, report sometimes leads to investigation

[Physic]

Half of my friends regularly insult each other. We call each other names, mock each other, because we're friends, we find it funny. We don't do it to randoms.

Your comment is worrying me that we may get banned because we choose to mock each other and make fun of each other when we play alone.

only if your friends start reporting each other. If you are saying offensive things in shout chat, then you are not just talking to your friends. They have party chat, linkpearls, and free companies for group only convos. Also, they dont just ban people easily, or instantly for mild offenses.