Recent Developments of TOS Actions Taken

[KageTokage]

The point of this whole matter keeps flying over the heads of a lot of people.

This has less to do with why a streamer was banned and more to do with the fact that SE deciding to extend their enforcement outside of the game itself has raised a grey area on what is/isn't punsihable.

I don't think it can be said with absolute certainty that the simple "Don't be a jerk" rule is going to protect someone that's doing something that's technically against the ToS like using a parser anymore.

If someone, say, kicks someone for doing low DPS, but doesn't state such in-game, nor do they actually say anything negative on stream, would they still be safe if the "victim" saw that they were using a parser to determine that they were underperforming and decided to remove them because of it?

Are you not allowed to say anything offensive about someone on stream at all now? In-game even directing a single curse/swear at someone out of frustration has been enough to be considered punishable so is it not okay to do such anywhere now? Even good-natured people have limits to their patience and can make a slip of the tongue at times.

If they are willing to enforce such things now, they should just come out and make a clear statement about it instead of having double standards and cherry-picking incidents. It's the lack of consistency that's the biggest issue overall; originally just with what was enforced, but now also with where it's enforced.

I've already had to deal with this personally when it comes to trolls in the hunting community who among others things, deliberately position the hunts in ways to kill as many players as possible or try to kill specific people they have grudges against (Like me). Some of them got punished, while others are still carrying on with their obnoxious behavior despite being reported multiple times.