Crime & Punishment

[azurerogue]

n3xus, I think you have many good points, and you phrased everything very intelligently and in a mostly neutral fashion, I believe. I mean no offense in any way, but I would like to point a few things out, if I may:

This is also pretty strange. It looks like someone tried to actually organize people into sending a slew of reports in to deal with certain loa members. Almost.

Even if it seems like that, and I am not one to speak on what happened / did not happen with reports - if their had been nothing to report in the first place this could not have happened. I don't care if anyone agrees with the punishments or not, and I don't want to get into whether or not I do. The point is that if there was no offense to report, nothing could be done. I'm not trying to say it's all good and happy, but just pointing the fact out.

By implementing a few rules, yes it could accomodate younger people. At the same time, this is like censorship.

I don't think you can complain about censorship in a privately run game, on a privately owned server, run by an individual who pays out of pocket to keep the game going. This isn't the public domain, and you are not entitled to freedom of speech.

Jason's attitude has toned down in the past couple of years, if you can believe that. He still pisses people off ingame. But it wasn't like before. He says things in private to us in guild to vent, etc. I don't think he should be called a coward for that.

I don't know Jason, and I don't believe I've ever spoken to him in game that I can remember. Along with that, I do not know the facts of what happened at all, just what I've read on the forums so far and inferred from what people have said - but I do agree with you somewhat, and I know that everyone (or close to it) says something negative about someone else behind their back at some point. I would maintain, however, that if you think about doing or saying something public that could get banned, then perhaps you should restrain yourself from saying it at all. I know this is far too idealistic to happen, but I'm a huge optimist. Sorry.

All i'm saying is that things are not as one-sided as some people make it out to be. Yes I will admit that some of our guys are definitely a handful when it comes to rule breaking and bending. Some definitely like to push people's buttons and instigate. I'm not defending their actions/words by any means. I'm only bringing up some slightly questionable GM actions.

Final point. I like this paragraph a lot, and I personally don't see anything wrong with a well-phrased, kindly-worded inquiry to the GMs as long as there's no malice behind it. I have no doubt that the GMs are handling this situation in the best way they can find. And regardless of what any of us may think, I know that there has been a great amount of discussion among the GMs and they are trying their best to do what they think is right.

Sorry for the long-ish response, and thank you for your post n3xus.

EDIT: Fixed a few typos.