Did we ever find out how long the ban is?

Perma or temp?

Meaning?

- When players cross that line they should be held accountable for their action.
Agreed. By means of warning followed up by appropriate action if the warning isn't heeded.

Probably because there are occasions where nothing but a outright ban will be good enough.

Also if you can think of those situations where this would apply but still go ahead and do them, then you deserver to be banned.

If you can not think any occasion or any situation where a outright ban can never be justified then there is something wrong with you

You are actually implying that Ero1 used discretion ?

Yet there are hard line rules in place already regarding to player interaction. Rules which any sane human being would not argue with and will get you an outright ban.

Outside of those rules CCP do use their discretion and sometime you might be given a warning, other times you will receive a ban.

CCP already allow us a certain amount of discretion, however for somethings THEY HAVE to have hard line rules.

Racism is just one example.

There can never be any room for any kind of discussion, discretion or warnings in these instances. You make a racist comment, racist abuse then you will be banned.

Here it stated in the TOS

"You may not use any abusive, defamatory, ethnically or racially offensive, harassing, harmful, hateful, obscene, offensive, sexually explicit, threatening or vulgar language. (Alternate spelling or partial masking of such words will be reprimanded in the same manner as the actual use of such words.)"

Now are you really saying that this shouldn't be part of the TOS?

His interpretation, our interpretation does not matter, all that does matter is CCP's interpretation.

You can argue all you like but this applies to every single game. The Developers interpretation is the on that matters, not the players, don't like, don't play.

Because he totally didn't understand that his behavior was over the top. No matter what people do, CCP should definitely have to warn them first

or create a list of every possible human behavior that could be considered offensive in anticipation of the next sociopathic outburst by random players.

[Of course there is, that is why CCP give us, the players the benefit of the doubt to know when we are going to far or when we hit the point were what we are doing is simply not acceptable.

If you are unable to tell when you have gone to far then there is something probably wrong with you and being banned from the game is good for everybody.

No because what he did went well past of what is considered socially, morally and ethically acceptable by most people. He didn't just step over the line, he went so far past the line he could't even see the line. There was no line for E1.

At the moment the only person word we have that he was perma banned is James315, for all we know he got a 7, 14, 30 day ban. only time will really tell.

It's hardly true to say that ero was "immediately" banned, now is it?

Oh, he was warned than about conducting bonus room stuff on teamspeak?
If so, I'm totally gonna get off your back because I'd be wrong for pushing you guys for clarity.

Now, was there a warning to Erotica 1 on the bonus room, yes or no?
If yes: I can finally go work in my garden as I've promised to do for the last week.

I'm very confident that he knew full well that what he was doing was unacceptable to CCP. That was why he was so careful to keep everything that he knew full well was way over the limit out of CCP's direct control, wrongly assuming that this would save him.

Not that it mattered after he started getting careless.

If you agree, why hasnt the racist IRL threat issuing mark been banned? You agree with that part?

The fact that most of the people are actively ignoring that part (as you are) is rather interesting.

Ah, the racism and IRL threats arent important to you then.

I get it

Ah, they dont AFFECT you so theyre not important.

You want a shovel?

I don't follow the miner bumping crowd (I run an indy corp and they're the reason why I have to pay rent instead of just running my operations in hisec), so my apologies if I've got this wrong.... but:

I thought they went out of their way to POST their hijinks/tomfoolery/fuckery/debasery/stuffery/andThingsery?

You see my tears... which means you know I have lost control over my emotions, for I have broken down and cried. I sure hope you're not mocking me, now. DONT CROSS THAT LINE!

I fear for your account, sir.