Thread: Discussion on rule 3.3 on offensive behavior (ToS)

That brings me to the third point. I do not know what I have done. In the past two weeks I have almost not connected at all and the last interactions I personally remember were just a discussion with a fellow tank about if we had or not to use the LB3 for a part of the Omega 11 raid normal mode, which in the end ended with me leaving the instance and suffering a (well deserved) 30 minute cooldown from the duty finder and posting a couple text memes on some houses (which I do personally believe to be the reason for this situation). Aside of that I do not remember to having 1: insulted any player, 2: used harassing words to attack any group or ideas. At this point all I have left to believe is that the language I used was offensive and not profane, which would mean something as "I said something that upset someone". That's the grey area left for the offender to understand what has he done without any context. In this case I'm confused about what should I do next, since I need to deduce what kind of situation led to the warning. If I ended up not seeing what could have caused this, the offense could happen again for a reason unable to be explained to me. I do believe that it's a bad idea to not say exactly what caused it since 1: if the offense was indeed unintentional, knowing exactly what would make the person actually reflect on the action and possibly apologize to the affected individual, 2: if the person was not happy with the result, they will still control themselves better to avoid further reactions and 3: if the person wants to retaliate, the result will be an even greater punishment that could affect their account (and losing a toxic player is not such a terrible thing). I would find these reasons enough to consider the possibility of showing the offender the reason for the warning so that the situation can be adressed in depth and not left in a cloud of wonders. I personally feel lucky for knowing exactly what I did... hours later. But there may be people who get this situation onto themselves without even knowing exactly why, which leaves them with possible fear and uneasiness for their safety in the account.

In my case the warning has been applied and I do believe I know exactly why, and what's more, I will try to personally message the affected player who I believe reported me because I do think I owe an apology at least. But the way in which this offense is addressed gives doubts and allows for the uneasiness of players. I would like to ask for opinions on the matter and pray this reaches someone (dreaming is free!), because I believe the way in which the matter is treated does not allow always for the player to understand the severity of one's actions.

If anything I shown was wrong or changed I would also appreciate to be let known for corrections and to avoid misunderstandings. There's always a dangerous grey area born of speaking about offensive language and I would like to avoid giving the impression that I defend harassment.

Lastly, I wanted again to thank the GMs for their work and for facing these decisions, surely we all have an enormous amount of different opinions and they consider many possibilities interpreting the ToS the best possible. Thanks as well to this particular GM.


PD: I got called to the jail during Ixion fate, that still stings! Never getting the mount, crap