Quote: Not allowed on Discovery forums or server:
1.1 Use of abusive, vulgar, obscene or racist materials
1.2 Trolling or harassing other members of the community
Consequences:
I'm not quite sure if you meant this as a joke or not. It really doesn't matter, because threatening to murder another member of this community will not be tolerated for any reason under any circumstances.
We've been watching your forum activity go downhill, and this is a step in the wrong direction that will not stand. Take a month off the forum. If this continues when you come back, it will be your last time posting here.
Your forum account is currently banned. Ban Reason: threatening to murder another player
Ban will be lifted: 04-28-2014, 12:23 PM
(03-28-2014, 06:15 PM)sindroms Wrote: This was the CSV thread, I imagine?
Yes, it was a joke, we were both on TS at the time.
We were playing BF3 and the adrenaline was high and pulsing and throbbing. No need to be THAT harsh, jeez.
That and as if you'd mind if something like that happened to me, seriously.
I believe this is enough grounds to unban or shorten my ban timer. The ban was strictly for "threatening another player", and I believe the intended target of my piss poor humor was Spazzy.
Besides, if you really think that I'm going to book a flight to Spazzy's country of residence, painstakingly find out where in the hell he lives, and then personally go out of my way to murder this man that I speak to nearly every day, and above all declare my attack in a FLOOD thread, then you're highly mistaken of my character.
Tal, we had very little doubt that it was in fact a joke. There are however many other users who don't know you and Spazzy so well and for their sake we enforce the rules evenly. Besides that, it's just an inappropriate comment in any context.
Well, the admins do actually listen and discuss these matters. It was because of listening to others that I wrote the ban as I did, and it was because of further discussion that I am doing this. We have decided this was in fact a bit excessive and are shortening the ban to one week.
Let me be clear about a few things. This type of comment is unacceptable. The fact that the two individuals were talking on Teamspeak at the time and the insulted party was not really offended is completely irrelevant. There are many more people in this community who don't know the two of them are friends. The admins have no desire to be in a position of determining what someone was thinking when they made a comment. We also don't want someone to make a totally legitimate threat and feel they should get away with it because someone else got away with it as a joke. Insulting and threatening other members is inappropriate and with be dealt with as such.
If we see more of this in the future, we will not feel bad about issuing longer bans.......especially in a case like this where this warning has already been issued.
Also, the very next person that posts in this thread without authorization will also be taking a forum vacation.