I got banned recently for "offensive language," and when questioning the GM as to why, I was told he couldn't give me an answer, because it might clue me in to who did it, which is stupid, because if I did retaliate against said person, that would just wind up being a permanent ban. Well what I ended up doing was some looking around for others who were in a similar boat as me, so I could cobble together an idea of what it was I might have done wrong, and boy did I find a lot of toxic individuals who seemed to be getting off that someone was punished.
I've seen everything from mind reading (you know what you did), to people twisting words around just to make the person look guilty (you have no idea what you did, meaning it could be something from yesterday, or last month your being punished for...so you admit to breaking the rules so often that you have no idea what your specifically being punished for, and yes... that is something someone actually said to me). Also, it is so bad, I even got down voted multiple times on Reddit when I said "punish me all you want, but tell me what I did wrong, so I won't do it again."
When I play any MMORPG I make the default assumption that most people on it are adults, or adult enough to inform me if I'm doing something they don't like, so I can change my behavior, or at very least are smart enough to put me on mute, in which case I usually know nothing about it, and go about my business. What I don't expect is for them to run to the teacher every time they don't get their way, or someone isn't treating them in the way they want. Part of being an adult is learning to handle stuff you don't like...if your go to response is to tell the teacher, your still at the functional level of a small child.
To my understanding the bans don't reset, meaning if I slip up sometime next year, it's a week long ban. Well if someone made a series of minor infractions, we'll say months apart, how is this justice being served? People should be loosing their account because they constantly and persistently harass or provoke others, not because they offended some thin-skinned in-duh-vidual by using the wrong word, or talking about a topic in a manner they didn't agree with. This is just creating a chilling effect, and is seriously making me not want to play, and for those whose response is "good...you shouldn't be playing" congratulations...your the toxic individuals whose accounts needs banned, and no...just because I agreed to the TOS doesn't make the TOS right, and if we're going to play that game, then Hitler did nothing wrong because everything he did was legal while he was in charge, and yes...I just did make an ad-Hitler argument, so get over it.
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I've seen everything from mind reading (you know what you did), to people twisting words around just to make the person look guilty (you have no idea what you did, meaning it could be something from yesterday, or last month your being punished for...so you admit to breaking the rules so often that you have no idea what your specifically being punished for, and yes... that is something someone actually said to me). Also, it is so bad, I even got down voted multiple times on Reddit when I said "punish me all you want, but tell me what I did wrong, so I won't do it again."
When I play any MMORPG I make the default assumption that most people on it are adults, or adult enough to inform me if I'm doing something they don't like, so I can change my behavior, or at very least are smart enough to put me on mute, in which case I usually know nothing about it, and go about my business. What I don't expect is for them to run to the teacher every time they don't get their way, or someone isn't treating them in the way they want. Part of being an adult is learning to handle stuff you don't like...if your go to response is to tell the teacher, your still at the functional level of a small child.
To my understanding the bans don't reset, meaning if I slip up sometime next year, it's a week long ban. Well if someone made a series of minor infractions, we'll say months apart, how is this justice being served? People should be loosing their account because they constantly and persistently harass or provoke others, not because they offended some thin-skinned in-duh-vidual by using the wrong word, or talking about a topic in a manner they didn't agree with. This is just creating a chilling effect, and is seriously making me not want to play, and for those whose response is "good...you shouldn't be playing" congratulations...your the toxic individuals whose accounts needs banned, and no...just because I agreed to the TOS doesn't make the TOS right, and if we're going to play that game, then Hitler did nothing wrong because everything he did was legal while he was in charge, and yes...I just did make an ad-Hitler argument, so get over it.
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