Alumet and her Power Abuse. (Page 2 of 2)

it makes me happy and satisfied.. i dun wanne stop

i think it is perfectly acceptable for julie to ban people for harrassing her, ignite is only complaining cuz he is the 1 who got banned, if it was someone else he wouldnt of cared

and for two... rick u were not there and sykes is a GM kiss ass so he's always gonna take the GM's side.      like i said... rastlin i understand why she got her panties in a knot... ignite... no fucking way.. he did not say one harrassing or offensive thing... she was raging and took it out on both of them.

All I said was hahaha and I got banned.  Alumet is worthless, like her shitty husband, adligkrieger.

I disagree, penny.  While harassing other players tends to get you in trouble in other games, Gms are not "other players", and dealing with angry customers tends to be part of the job.  This is true of any support job, whether it be tech support at a big company, or handling product returns at Walmart.

The idea that Gms are above other players or have certain entitlements has historically been a huge detriment to Faldon, IMO.

No, I'm a liberal-leaning independent.  I'm assuming you're latching onto "entitlement" in my post, as that's a word that has been thrown around in Republican talking points lately.  Fundamental well being should be an unalienable right of all Americans, as it is for every other fully industrialized nation in the world.  The fact that our current system is so backwards is shameful.

Yes but there's a difference between dealing with an angry customer and the type of abuse that is typical in this game.  For example, if you go into a public place and start cursing out an employee and make a scene, you will be asked to leave or have the authorities called.  Yes, it is the employee's responsibility to try to end the dispute in a civil manner, but we both know that even without witnessing what happened,  this most likely was not the was not a simple customer dispute by rather flagrant personal abuse in the public channel since this tends to be the norm.  Try walking into Walmart and calling the greeter a Dickface over and over and see how long they allow your patronage.  This type of stuff isn't just insulting on a personal level, it disrupts the entire player population.

Expressing dissatisfaction with a product is acceptable in any game.  Cursing out a GM or moderator in public for enjoyment is not.  I can assure you that this was the case in Ultima Online and it's still the case with Warcraft or Age of Conan.

Like I said before, the primary reason that these things go this far is because of the level of interaction with the GMs and the players and the fact that GMs are former players.  The only way to solve this, in my opinion, is to either limit the amount of GM interaction with the players or make the players to make certain concessions(such as not being rude) in order to maintain the level of GM involvement.   Personally, I would choose the second one since treating everyone with some sort of civility seems like less of a loss than losing the level of GM interactivity that makes this game unique.

Was a ban going too far?  *shrug* I don't know the guidelines that GMs have to follow.  Not to sound like a broken record, but a more specific set of standardized guidelines for GMs and Mods might be a step in the right direction.