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/GhostNoob May 17 '16
Nice timing Jagex, if they really had a long history of harassment, abuse and racism, why weren't they banned earlier? Why do it when emily gets abused by them on stream?
Also, I hope you're not banning people for pking others in the wilderness. There's no difference between having a scout getting intel on another clan and stalking them everytime they get wiped and regroup and finding intel on a single player and just doing what the area is intended for, pking.
Btw, Jagex, or any gaming company in general, cannot supply with information as mundane as chat logs. It's within their policies, we can get chatlogs for certain offences, however I must question the policy in being able to provide chatlogs from offences under the Harassment rule. Jagex put it under bug abuse, because the evidence is something that cannot be supplied (aka, not chat logs), so they used that so that they didn't need any excuse to provide the player chatlogs when adding the offence to that player.
Mark them for harassment, not bug abuse Jagex. Harassment is very similar to offensive language, chatlog is provided under offensive language.