Psithief Wrote:Apparently GMs don't look for motive
Reason for this is mostly because of how much crap we got in for "defining malicious motive" in the past 5 years. It's a good thing by the 4th year, heRO changed from "rule by motive/feelings" to "rule by logs."
The moment you involve motives, then 100% of GMs' actions will be accused of favoritism (even more than they are now, if any of such accusations exist which probably does.)
Banned someone? Reasoning is evil intention. So why didn't someone else get banned for doing the same thing? "Oh, s/he didn't intend to." I believe in the world of e-drama, that's called biased judging and favoritism. Much, though not all, rules are converted throughout the years to involve less and less on subjective judging and "motive definining" for that reason. There's still some gray ones left such as the naming rule, but overall rules headed in this direction.
@Saku:
Why are we still going on and on about "autofollow = botting"? You can always autofollow AND respond when asked. Go ahead and autofollow, just be on standby to reply. It's just like "not solely playing heRO when fishing = botting" thread all over again. As long as you can reply and pass a bot test, then you are OK to do whatever you are doing.
Autofollow on your gypsy, play heRO in window, start some downloads, watch a movie, put on some make up, yell at Aya for being Aya on MSN all at the same time, and you aren't botting as long as you can hop back to reply/do whatever the bot test needs you to do.
@Aaron:
I don't think autofollow sets up any "trap" for players to violate the AFK training rule. Really if we are getting rid of anything that "may tempt players to violate rules" then let's just kill off PVM altogether because the entire aspect of PVM promotes botting! \o/
Oh wait, PVP got buff-bots too. Let's kill that too.
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As Psitheif said in a later post, this is a highly practical approach. It may be unfortunate that rules follow "one size fit all" and doesn't consider the specialized needs/reasoning for each player, but relatively this is fitting for the vast majority of the players. You can never win everyone over.
