It isn't our job to dictate to people how to maintain a base standard of human decency toward one another, and we're not going to do so.

We can ransom, scam, repeatedly kill, steal, laugh at, point fingers and whatever you want to do (within the EULA)... INGAME against the CHARACTER. The second you start to target the PERSON behind the character is where the problem potentially will arise and then it depends on the intent, severity and CCP's discretion what, if any, the implications will be.

So people who have a working brain and see the game for what it is and leave it all in game, no problems there, go have fun. But for the few folks who apparently have issues making that clear distinction between a game and RL (or do this on purpose for whatever psychiatric evaluation-worthy reason) it, again, needs to be made official and public that CCP doesn't accept that ****.

Anyone out of game interaction with the person rather than the character, so recordings would probably be a good guess :P

Now, I absolutely love scamming and making people sing for their pod (even if they still blow it up anyway). I however, do not appreciate when people find it necessary to break an individual down to point of physical distress for the sake of self enjoyment alone. There is no other word that describes it better, than simply 'harassment'. .

So is the line for real-life harassment going to remain vague?

Some of us enjoy harming other players with a passion, and the boundaries between character and person are bound to be crossed without clear guidelines on what isn't allowed.

If you think you might have crossed a line, you probably did. Clear lines would only be abused and make a mess for the GMs. With a grey area, they can better decide on a case by case basis without internet lawyers going "technically" on them.

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tl;dr to scammers/gankers. If you can't figure out where the line is, that's a personal problem and you should probably see about some counseling irl. Because the rest of us know when and where we have to stop.

Gee, why not just stop humiliating people on coms entirely? It's not like "bonus rooms" are an essential part of the game. Stick to playing to the game and chatting in local, and avoid all doubt.

FTFY.

This is CCP's game.
They make the rules and guidelines and they are entitled to have grey areas and make judgement upon them.
Having said that; this is a character based game. You are not literally you in this game.
You're character is an avatar. This avatar can communicate in game. Meaning you can speak to others and sing to others.

There are things your in game avatar cannot do however.
They cannot send you a picture of themselves where they are smeared in mayo for instance. Think about what the other persons avatar is legally and physically capable of doing in game and you will be less likely to be concerned about what you are doing is right or wrong. If you are trying to push an edge case or are saying yea but; please refer to sentence one and two.

As long as it touches nothing outside the game and is not continuous. I'm fine. There is that pesky continuous harassment thing that a bonus room may touch on. Thus the grey area.

They stood next to the sign looking out at the long grass. Right next to them was a sign reading 'Danger, Minefield'

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