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[GM-Ayu]

If you are referring to the scenario regarding Bloody, the report came in on Tues Feb 26th or so. We did discuss if it is counted as valid, and this is it:

heRO server rules Wrote:Be respectful to everyone
Insulting, the use of swears, discrimination, racism, sexism or any other offending comments may result in jail or ban. That goes for everywhere, especially on the Main Chat for everyone to see, keep it clean and insult-free! There is a person behind every character and he/she deserves proper respect just like you.

Final rule
Lastly, if by your action(s) or inaction(s) you cause harm or seriously hinder another character's playing experience, punishments may be given according to the severity of the action(s) or inaction(s).

Bolded part added for emphasis.

We did discard many reports as invalid due to the date issue. There were many reports of said players taunting/insulting other players. However, 2 of the screenshots have blacked out lines, while 17 others are not even in year 2008. We discarded those because we specified that reports must use unedited screenshot, while the others are kind of old and weak point.

Out of the reports from 2007, we only act upon the Halloween comment, as we deem racist comments to be not only something heRO condemns as a severe wrong but it is also a standard even in real life. Insults or swears can be hard to define from culture to culture, but racism is quite universal, so we took up that one, and discarded all the rest.

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Again, as for the naming issue, GMs asked players to change from one inappropriate name to another. Jman submitted, and we are all unaware of his new name's meaning, and thus accepted it thinking the problem has been solved. We trusted all players to understand and respect the new rules in place.

Feb 29th, we got a complaint from another player why we put the naming rule into place, and how some of the players got to use an inappropriate name in place of an old inappropriate name. We requested further evidence of how are any existing names inappropriate, and we got the same link to urbandictionary as what Aki pointed out within this thread. What else can GMs think, but to sigh and wonder why are players trying to bypass a set rule? Why are they hoping that the GM remains overly naive and ignorant (which in this particular case, we are, and needed to be enlightened by player reports) so they can get away with someone GMs have blatantly stated as unacceptable?

However, the specific case about the name Fainn, like I said, I recommend all of us to wait until tomorrow morning about it so the other GMs can review the new information we know about this word/name.

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I have no idea what was the case for Silvanel except what you read here as well. Seems like Loki has replied to Silvanel's questions, so I'll stay out of it and let Loki deal with it if Silvanel replies.