Harassment of players (LGBT)

[Perditioner]

Minor swears is not harassment, waiting around a community for someone to say a minor swear then reporting them maliciously is.

[MicahZerrshia]

Minor swears is not harassment, waiting around a community for someone to say a minor swear then reporting them maliciously is.

If you don't want the potential of getting a ban, don't use minor swears or any other language that will get you banned, it really isn't that difficult. I swear like a sailor on shore leave irl, but my language in game, even around friends, is squeaky clean.

But since you said "many of your friends" are getting banned, well I do not think your pals are as innocent as they are making themselves out to be since the minor swears thing is one of those weird outliers that do not happen often. And frankly, something that may not be offensive to you, may be to someone else, even within the same community. For instance, irl I use the f word a lot to describe myself and my friends, who do the same. To us it's like the n word, its ok for us within the community to use it, but used by others it is racist and derogatory. However, my husband gets highly offended by it, even from myself or other gays and will report it. Therefore I only use that word around my friends who are of the same mindset and would never even think to say it in game or even irl if I do not know how someone feels about it. I know I see a lot of behaviour from ppl in this game, even from our community, that makes me cringe. Just because we are part of the lgbt community, does not mean we all have the same views on what is acceptable.

So, while you may have someone being malicious, you may also have others in our community that just have different views on what is acceptable, which is ok. The main takeaway you should get from this though, is there are rules on how to act in public spaces and if you wish to act or talk differently, you need to be in a more closed group where everyone is on the same page.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

If you don't want the potential of getting a ban, don't use minor swears or any other language that will get you banned, it really isn't that difficult. I swear like a sailor on shore leave irl, but my language in game, even around friends, is squeaky clean.

Totally agree Discord voice/text chat is for what WE really want to say to each other lol

The game also has a profanity filter, which, if memory serves, is on by default, it actually makes me very curious what word was used to cause this, I use Shout chat all the time, and I swear all the time, and I never had a single issue, but I also only use very light, basic swearing, like a superlative "fucking" or "damn", nothing beyond that.

Profanity filter doesn't mean you can swear, it just means it's there in case people BREAK THE RULES and swear.

I always assumed that GM's inspected server chat logs, or reviewed server instance recordings, and only if that kind of impartial 'proof' evidence was available, that they only then hauled people up for discussion.

When you report someone you have to put date/time/world within the report. So can't see them banning without the actual timestamp proof.