ArenaNet Enforcing Bans

This is great news! Nice to see a company living up to its Rules of Conduct.

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This is great news! Nice to see a company living up to its Rules of Conduct.

Ditto!

I agree whole heartedly.

Saw a guild called For Fudge's Sake today and didn't know whether they were being smart-asses, or they just don't swear. Then there was another one that was vulgar about genitalia but it was all spelled strangely so it wasn't technically the words but it was easy to see what it meant. :\

I really hate those names that are so blatantly obvious what was intended but because they spell it differently or use symbols instead of letters, the powers-that-be in the games can't pick up on it and nothing is done about it until enough people "report" them which doesn't happen most of the time. :(

This thread sounds like the Nanny State cheerleading squad! Perhaps instead of regulating speech one could simply remove themselves from the offending offense. Remember, the person whose speech you squelch is then having their game impacted, the same game that they paid the same money for that you did!

Why are so many people expressly interested on controlling everyone besides themselves to a point that it negatively impacts every other person exponentially beyond what the first perceived wrong was? I understand that a person lacing every statement with the f bomb (or worse, the c word) is more than just a minor irritation, and vulgarity for vulgarity's sake is unacceptable and shouldn't be tolerated... but seriously, if someone lets slip a four letter word, the nanny police get to come and ban that person from the game for three days? Why is the nay-sayer's money better than the rest of the identical money people pay for this game? (nay-sayers say nay)

Massively Multiplayer games invite the Masses to play, it's what makes them fun. The tee-totaling Pollyanna nanny-state nay-sayers aren't the only people that get invitations. Everyone with the money to buy gets and invitation to play and participate. Massively Multiplayer games are going to have people that don't agree with everything you believe to be fair and contrite. Get over yourself and realize that you are one singular part of a massive society, and that individuals that make up that society have different morals and values than you, thereby placing different meaning on some words than others.

It's high time that people start taking a stiff upper lip, grow a thicker skin and just move on past the idiot that's cussing randomly. Stop letting people affect their speech upon you in so much a way that it actually effects you personally. Seriously, It Gets Better!

I think it's up to the private company that privately owns a game that we paid for the privilege of using to decide on the rules for behavior in public spaces. If they want to talk like that, they can join a private chat channel just like anyone. Any service business reserves the right to refuse service to people, regardless of how much they've paid previously. When you paid for the game you also agreed to play by their rules. If you break your agreement with them, then you don't get to keep playing the game.

It's not that hard not to cuss - people make it through the day all the time not cursing at everyone they speak to.

Also, AreaNet is a company - not a government. Lets not get out of hand here and pretend that this is some kind of massive government assault on liberty.

I guess it all depends on your perspective.

Personally, I agree with ssthis in terms of Anet should not ban people for accidental slip ups or goofy names. In line with that rationale, Anet posted a response- http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/235600

However when someone makes a derogatory statement in any form, whether innocent or not, I believe that person should be banned. In my view, it is not ok to make racist, sexist, or anti-gay remark as it sets a precedent of acceptable bigotry which ultimately harms others. Some people like myself will simply ignore it. Others will be bothered by it. We're all different... However in a game setting, why should the latter group have to deal with it? This is my personal viewpoint..which in the end..is meaningless. I agreed to the Rules of Conduct as did those that were banned. As RodgersPM pointed out a company runs the game not a country. It's their product and environment to shape. I happen to agree with the RoC and the way they're conducting business.

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This thread sounds like the Nanny State cheerleading squad! Perhaps instead of regulating speech one could simply remove themselves from the offending offense. Remember, the person whose speech you squelch is then having their game impacted, the same game that they paid the same money for that you did!

In an MMO a lot of people play together. The more people, the more having rules becomes a necessity. Those rules are called "Terms of service". Everyone agreed to them when installing this game. Everyone could have looked them up before purchasing the game.

Fortunately so far i've only had to report one person.

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I feel personally insulted when someone is calling a random person 'faggot' because you disagree with them. If Arenanet wasn't banning people who do this, then i would have seen a lot of this.

Are you telling me that other people who bought the game have the right to call everyone they disagree with 'a faggot'?

Are you telling me that either i should tolerate such behaviour or stop playing the game?

The person who said that needs to be banned...and hopefully they were.

I don't watch "Main" chat at all. For forty levels now I have only been exposed to one comment and that was pretty harmless. Someone who we were fighting next to said in /say "Hey, you guys want to join a real guild?" I didn't see this comment until shortly after that person had already left our area, I didn't bother to whisper the person for an explanation. I was a recruiting officer in EQ for our guild for many years and my experience taught me that this was just an over-zealous, young person trying to headhunt for their guild. My only thought on the matter was "this person is very young they haven't the maturity to understand their mistake in making such a comment, to someone who is mature and experienced." Some things like this are just not that serious. Then other things such as the comment in Main Chat above is.

The reason I don't monitor or participate in Main Chat is because they talk about everything except the game and when they do discuss the game or helping someone it's extremely rare and short-lived. I am glad there are people here and in other guilds who do enjoy the misc chit chat with other people....I'm just not one of those people any longer....the person who said "Faggot" would have made me mad at the time and bruised my gaming day. Read the chat top to bottom and find in there where any of that has anything to do with GW2 or helping someone. It's all irrelevant (bs) and rederick to me.

Sufficed to say...for those of you who have the time to enjoy and monitor that channel and for reporting things such as this...I'm proud of you.....but know there are others who could care less about that little imp (and others like them) and have decided to turn away from the Main Chat Channel and the ignorance to enjoy this game.

Both sides are justified in doing what they are doing....or not doing. The Terms of Service and A-Net will take care of most of the major headaches...as reported by mature and observant players. :)

Have a blessed day all :)

there was a Reddit forum where people posted their character name as well as their server and everytime people would post they would say something like 'i know for a fact that i didnt say anything offensive in chat!'

somebody from Anet support was responding and would post for everybody to see, uncensored mind you, the reason people had been banned. while this provided MUCH hilarity when people were revealed to be outright lying about not having done anything.

most of the bans that people have received were well worth it in my opinion