When players who were banned for cheating are let back into either of the competition-running lobbies, they should undergo a probationary period during which they lose privacy rights for all accounts, be they linked alts or clean-slate mains. The mods can set up a thread with a list of all accounts held by recently unbanned cheaters and either (a) consistently monitor users who have made the list or (b) install a simple account approval process whereby failure to inform the mods of newly registered accounts constitutes a violation of the rules.
This might be worth a go for any game-related ban, not just cheating, but that would probably involve a lot more maintenance.
deletedover 10 years
Understandable. Community violations are a different animal. The only thing I can counter with is the fact that, just because a user feels harassed, a violation doesn't necessarily have to follow. Else you'd be dishing out a ton of violations for "well HE CALLED ME STUPID in TWO different games now, and this is HARRASMENT".
Pete was right in that it establishes a bit of a weird precedent, especially given the history of the "harassed" user at hand, though I realize that shouldn't really matter.
Alright, I honestly hate dealing with community violations because I myself would never file a harassment report against someone on a forum because it doesn't do any good. I also think it's not hard to be at least cordial to people you don't like, so I don't really have sympathy for people who can't even do that.
I had warned Empire earlier, sometime last week, to leave Petri alone after she had approached me and told me that he was bothering her on the forums, ie following her into threads and taking jabs, negging posts, etc. I told him not to do it, and he continued to make posts, such as some seen in this thread, that she viewed as harassment. I asked her to compile some screenshots for the report, one of which was simply "lmao", in context to someone making a remark at her expense.
I'm not a [redacted], I wouldn't give a harassment violation just for someone saying "lmao" without any prior warning or in context with other remarks. It's in the context of everything else, and a culmination of all the jabs he's taken at her both before and after the warning.
Harassment "precedent" is BS because what's harassment for one person isn't harassment for another.
I personally like Empire and enjoyed working with him when we were mods together, but this kind of stuff and his attitude about the whole thing is in part why he received the violation. Given the position I'm in, I cannot simply ignore a user approaching me giving me multiple instances of where they are feeling harassed and not do anything about it. I gave Empire a fair warning and he continued to go ahead and make remarks anyway.
deletedover 10 years
... welp.
deletedover 10 years
The only post even vaguely harassment worthy is "Keep up the good work Peta."
One post was a reply to a similar one by Petri, one was a reply to an accusation of harassment for saying "lmao." with 0 justification, and one was just me posting "lmao.'
Big ups to Epicmafia administrator thebrontosaurus for setting precedent for slapping harassment vios on posts consisting of "lmao."
deletedover 10 years
Oh no, I've been warned before and a violation for one of the posts is justifiable (Well actually it's closer to ERB), but the choices he picked to give the vio for are atrocious.
well maybe if you hadn't done the exact same thing in 5 other threads or posted right after i did i wouldn't have thought it.
cool essay tho. i thought i was the one obsessed with you? seem like it's the opposite from where i'm sitting since you follow me into threads and neg every single one of my posts in every topic. meanwhile i've just been trying to act civil towards you.
deletedover 10 years
If you think that's worth a violation Bronto hand it out.
