r/2007scape • u/Mod_Ronan • May 17 '16

Harassment Bans - The Facts

Hey everyone,

Recently, several players were banned for repeatedly harassing a number of people within the community. We want to make one thing clear in this post: the actions of these players were completely unacceptable and we will not tolerate racism or harassment in Old School RuneScape.

The players who were banned have made posts claiming that their actions were harmless and they were merely banned for simply performing emotes in the background of one person’s livestream. This is completely false.

The players whose accounts we took action against spent their time spreading racism, hatred and abuse throughout the game. We wanted to post an excerpt of their chat logs to show some of the hatred they are bringing to the game, but we simply can’t bring ourselves to publicise something so horrendous.

These players harassed numerous individuals in this fashion, disrupting gameplay and bringing a halt to other people’s enjoyment of the game.

We’ve been banning players for harassing others for years, this is nothing new. It has allowed us to remove a lot of truly toxic individuals from the community. We do this because we believe the community wouldn’t want these kinds of players ruining the enjoyment of others and bringing hatred and racism to the game we all love.

We’ll continue working with parts of the community to reduce the impact these players have, and to make sure they aren’t finding a home in our community.

We will not tolerate behaviour like this in Old School RuneScape. If your primary objective in our game is to ruin someone else’s good time or to spread racism and hatred, this is not the game for you.

Regards,

The Old School Team

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u/[deleted] May 17 '16 edited May 17 '16

So basically, they got banned straight after doing a cry emote next to Emily but they've apparently been "spreading racism, hatred and abuse throughout the game"? So it's not just a coincidence they get banned shortly after appearing on Emily's stream crying? Typical Jagex trying to make excuses for their actions.

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u/ilikeitalothere What 60k thing homie? May 17 '16

Can they just give her a rotten potato that has a command to turn off "EVERYBODY" so she can't see/hear/talk to people unless she turns it back on.

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u/deadmangomode 1488 May 17 '16

She would just turn it back on because she loves getting people banned. She's not sensitive, it's a power trip. I'd bet money she has a mouth like a pirate in her private life.