Gaol

[NatureBoyMalb]

Your gm put me in a gaol accused me of harassment and put a warning strike on my account and did not even vaguely reference what I might have done to warrant such action how am I supposed to avoid another one if I haven't the slightest clue what I did did I undercut someone on the market board did somebody complain about my style of play I have no idea what you all consider to be harassment but I find it ironic this game is completely infested with people openly cheating and violating TOS and you all look the other way but are willing to punish me for a perceived insult of some sort and not even tell me how I can prevent further action what exactly is my warning for

[Nero-Voidstails]

welcome to FF14 you probably offended someone for no reason and they report spam you or something you say to get back at you

[Gwenkatsu]

I so wish, reading comments like this, that the FFXIV devs posted publicly what people said that got them banned. The Guild Wars 2 team did that for a while, and it was hilarious. People like "I just said someone was dumb! WTF I got banned!" and then they post the chatlog and it was some 4 minutes racist rant or something like that. Every. Single. Time. It was so funny to read how utterly contorted people's view of their own behavior is.

Somehow I felt that quote might be of use in this little thread here.

Also 404 incoming since it's usually not allowed to discuss moderator actions in game forums.

[Len_]

You can't know what you said or did because then you might have an idea who reported you and might retaliate. And that is apparently not a risk the GMs are willing to take. It's insane but that's the reason why you're not allowed to know.

[DiaDeem]

I've never met anyone that's ever been to a gaol before. You must be incredibly naughty to have ended up there.

[NatureBoyMalb]

I have over 10 years of sub time I know the games rules and I never speak to anyone anymore due to how notoriously heavy handed these folks are the only thing I did today was a hunt train I helped organize and an S rank I spawned if somehow the interactions with the open world content is now considered harassment I think they need to spell it out because I genuinely have no idea what else it could be and if they are now deciding that a pull time over 3 minutes long is harassment even if I spent an hour spawning it then the rules should state it I shouldn't be punished for some person complaining and the gms not bothering to look into it at all and just assume I even know or care who might report me I do not I think the gms are delinquent and I am getting a bad mark in my file for it and deserve atleast a point in the right direction if they are going to be enforcing rules that do not exist and calling it harassment

[0blivion]

Punctuation is not optional, by the way.

Also, I've had a friend who got sent to gaol over something stupid before. FFXIV has very tight community guidelines, but people rarely report stuff.

[NatureBoyMalb]

I have over 10 years of sub time I know the games rules and I never speak to anyone anymore due to how notoriously heavy handed these folks are the only thing I did today was a hunt train I helped organize and an S rank I spawned if somehow the interactions with the open world content is now considered harassment I think they need to spell it out because I genuinely have no idea what else it could be and if they are now deciding that a pull time over 3 minutes long is harassment even if I spent an hour spawning it then the rules should state it I shouldn't be punished for some person complaining and the gms not bothering to look into it at all and just assume I even know or care who might report me I do not I think the gms are delinquent and I am getting a bad mark in my file for it and deserve atleast a point in the right direction if they are going to be enforcing rules that do not exist and calling it harassment

[Len_]

You've been playing the game for over 10 years and you don't know that any open world monster including hunts are fair game and that if you start yelling at people over it you're in the wrong? "Pull time" is a social construct and is not supported by anything in the TOS.

[MediArgentum]

Regardless of OP's truthfulness or not, I do think that they're "overprotecting" the player who submitted the report in such cases.
It's understandable that you don't want to have the banned/suspended player figure out who reported them, because then they could potentially, maybe, MAYHAP, be able to retaliate against the player who reported them. Possibly even outside the game, so a 2nd report about this hypothetical retaliation from the "victim" would be nigh impossible to verify, and they don't wanna have that happen in the first place.

However, I think the system leans very heavily towards overprotecting them, as I said.
So much so, that you can legitimately get suspended for something you did months ago, there are cases where GM has said that the incident occurred months ago, it's incredibly vague to try and recall and figure out exactly what caused the offense.

You cannot fix the problem if you don't know what the specific problem is. Generalities don't help.
They should rebalance this policy. Don't provide specific details about the person who submitted the report but also don't be so incredibly vague about the incident that caused the ban/suspension either.