2012-06-27, 03:57 AM
So uh, sorry if this got asked already but I only took a look down the first page of the thread, saw it heading in a familiar direction, and decided to take my chances with getting people annoyed at me if this has already been asked (ha ha joke's on you, people are already annoyed with me).
What about people admitting to using private servers in the past? I know that if someone were to say "yeah I go play on SuperDuperMaple all the time, it's a PS you should all come join" then they'd almost certainty get banned (definitely infracted at the least), but what about people just mentioning it offhand as part of a statement they're making? Like discussing something else, stuff they did earlier regarding maple or whatever, and they just let drop that oh yeah, they used to be dumb and played on one for a while?
I'm thinking the answer I'm going to get is that it's better to not mention them ever and never bring up if one's played on one at all whether it's currently or 4 years ago, but how exactly should we as users handle this? Reporting people for even mentioning private servers seems like it'd probably lead to a bunch of useless busywork reports, so unless it's something blatant like mentioned above should we just ignore it, assuming that if the mods found it objectionable enough that they'd do something about it?
What about people admitting to using private servers in the past? I know that if someone were to say "yeah I go play on SuperDuperMaple all the time, it's a PS you should all come join" then they'd almost certainty get banned (definitely infracted at the least), but what about people just mentioning it offhand as part of a statement they're making? Like discussing something else, stuff they did earlier regarding maple or whatever, and they just let drop that oh yeah, they used to be dumb and played on one for a while?
I'm thinking the answer I'm going to get is that it's better to not mention them ever and never bring up if one's played on one at all whether it's currently or 4 years ago, but how exactly should we as users handle this? Reporting people for even mentioning private servers seems like it'd probably lead to a bunch of useless busywork reports, so unless it's something blatant like mentioned above should we just ignore it, assuming that if the mods found it objectionable enough that they'd do something about it?