Crime & Punishment

[Adrillf]

I'd first like to start out with saying, that I strongly believe in keeping this argument mud-slinging free, and would like to hope that others would respect that and be willing to not result to mud slinging and name calling.

Amen. I would know best that No guild chat(winkwink) or "guild forum"(/gg) on this server forum page is innocent. And all I've personally seen was GM's saying to watch language after such posts and sometimes edit the posts themselves never to actually give a punishment for such actions, but hey of course LoA is different.

I'm sort of new to all of this, but I decided to at least take a good search through the forums of Behemoth (the guild which I am part of) just to see if this point would hold water. I had a bit of insomnia tonight, so I was able to look through all four pages of the Behemoth area of the forum, as well as looking through every thread for any sort of joking/insulting, and yet no insults were found. The most devious thing that I could find was trying to find out a way to get past the precast of LoA during WoE, past that planning and trying to figgure out what strategy would work on it, there were no slanderous comments made, unless you want to include things like this. . .

I saw these two and the though of you.

as being offensive towards others. If you want to include that, then we're in buisness and your statment about how other people are offensive in their sections of the forum is supported. But considering that even in guild chat when this subject gets brought up by Hibiki Amara and others simply say to the effect, "We're not going to worry about this or discuss this here" your argument really starts to fall apart.


As for the quote of

Its pretty obvious to tell if one is joking or not if they were actually reading the guild chat while the joke was being made.

I will like to say that if you say anything racist even if it is joking bad things can happen. Race is a sensitive subject in any culture, in any culturally setting, even among my closest friends race is something tht is treated with caution. If you were joking about race, you must realize that it takes little or no work on the race that you're joking about to get offended. Even among good friends, people can be offended and cut deep even by off hand joking comments.

My final comment about all of this is this; be nice to the GMs. They're being as nice as they can be, and they're trying to do their jobs, but you have to remember that they have real life jobs as well. They are busy people that have other things to worry about besides just running heRO. They have to pay the bills just like the rest of us and even do things like buy grocries, and have relationships outside of the game of heRO. They're trying their best, they really are, and it's amazing that they're able to put together as much as they do (ToH, server events, ect) Give them a break. IF they were getting payed full time for this, if they were actually doing this as their full time job and we were all paying money to them just to play this game, then we would have an excuse for being upset at them. They are trying their hardest, and if that level is not satisfactory for you, go to a pay to play server and have some fun. I might be new to heRO, but I do know how much work it takes to run an entire community, expecially an MMORPG.

I along with the others that have said this in this thread as well as those who have not posted it the forums would like to say, thank you. To those people that have made heRO the way that it is, it is truely one of a kind.

Edited for a dumb spelling/grammar error