As a player who's never been reported, why aren't behavior penalties ever forgiven?

[Shadha]

Honestly I think strikes should stay on your account for upwards to a year and at that juncture should be able to be appealed or wiped entirely. Sometimes like you said it's just someone being stupid of catching blame for something they didn't do, and after a year has passed without any other incidents it is fair to assume the lesson should have been learned.

Yeah, exactly. Thank you. Like, a lot of us have a lot of friends in the game, and it would hurt to be separated from them and lose the shared hobby that we have with them. That's why I care about this so much. I almost wish I didn't, because it's a really inconvenient thing to care about. It's not like I can rewrite the ToS. But the thought of how awful that would be has stuck with me ever since I read that Reddit thread. Because it's not just banning bad people from our game, it's like...closing a door in someone's social life, potentially for something relatively minor like losing their patience with a random in a duty, two or three times over the course of six or nine years, depending on whether they played 1.0 or not. Or worse yet, something like the FC slogan issue, where it's a defensible thing, but the GMs have to act anyway.

If they were made leader of the FC due to inactiveness of the previous leader why did they not change the slogan before they were reported? They had to have known it was vulgar and could have easily changed it upon becoming the new leader. Ignoring it they are just as guilty as the person who wrote it.

It was on a character they hardly ever played, so they hadn't seen it. I have Imgur screenshots from the person in question with all the names marked out in case you want to see. That wouldn't count as sharing someone else's personal information, so I can, if you want. But yeah, no, they had no idea until the GM summoned them to the jail.