QUOTE (halombobtk @ Sep 17 2016, 07:39 PM)
HOLY [Content removed] LOL. The juxtaposition of your post and Conro's is utter insanity. How clueless are you? Do you seriously think words can't cause harm? It's 2016 ffs. When you say "even the jerkiest customer still deserves to access the service they are paying for" I'm guessing that includes people who made fun of Conro for being gay, huh?
So, there's something you've missed here.
Conro was using his experience as an example of how the player-ran justice system is highly selective in their interpretation of what is and isn't a moral outrage, and not at all consistent.
I don't believe Conro was saying they should have been banned, but rather people had been banned in others games for similar behavior. He was pointing out how the players who pretend to be judges cherry-pick what is punishable based not on objectivity but their own subjectivity. Moral crusaders like tip were totally cool with harassing people they didn't like for reasons they agreed with.
While I don't agree with harassing people at all, I am also pragmatic in that...
1. The NexusTK justice system does not stop harassment but merely empowers it
2. A better profanity filter, ignore system, and dungeon instancing would be more meaningful ways to reduce in-game harassment than continuing to defend a system that empowers certain kinds of harassment and ignores all others.
3. Players have no business deciding what players have broken which ToS rules, especially when players can manipulate the system to ensure people they don't like (for whatever petty reason) can't advance further in the game.
Also, words have emotional impact only when a person permits them to. No one in the virtual world that is NexusTK can do any meaningful harm to the player themselves, they can only waste the player's time by making them lose progress or annoy them. When you talk about banning customers from a service this has to be considered.