Recent Developments of TOS Actions Taken

[Arrius]

Hey, if someone deserves to be punished then SE can have at it. They broke the ToS. However, they shouldn't cherry pick who to punish on a 3rd party platform. Everyone should be held accountable for their actions, whether it's naming and shaming, botting, hacking, etc. What they've done here is opened a door that they told us was closed and completely off limits prior to this incident. And that's fine, but they should probably leave the door open now.

Thing is, when SE starts drawing lines everywhere about this, then people will try to blur those and try to get away with things that are of very questionable nature but not necessarily something that is considered rule-breaking.

Same happened when they stepped up against in-game harassments a while ago - Suddenly people wanted to know what exactly is bad, and what is still good. And cherry picking arguments like this is just making the situation not better since the player will start twisting words and arguments in a way that still can be seen as a negative comment, but are masked enough that throwing in a support ticket might not be worth the time.

When SE remains vague with their ways of how they detect toxicity and enforce their ToS like they did now, they remain somewhat in control and that keeps the player wary of what they can or cannot do in streams. And most of the time, the players will keep their voices down (so to speak) to avoid any ramifications that could risk their account.