Suspended for using the word "Philistine"

#0 - April 24, 2007, 2:59 a.m.
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I set up a Steamvaults group two nights ago and make the mistake of taking an unguilded hunter along for the run. Shortly into the instance the hunter gets pissy because I'm not listening to his asinine backseat driving and decides to leave the group, not before purposely wiping us.

Afterwards I congratulate him on proving that hes as mature as an eight-year old, and he rebuttal's with the average "ur jest mad because i beat you in damage" which really makes no sense since I was the main tank in the group. I think its really not worth arguing with someone who no doubt understands very little about much of anything and I send him off with this before ignoring him.

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/2779/duuuhgmsne7.jpg

Thats right, despite a 'through investigation' the GM didn't have the sense to look up the word in question in the dictionary, or a dictionary website to confirm what this word actually meant.

Merriam-Webster.com defines "Philistine" as
Q u o t e:

often not capitalized a : a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values b : one uninformed in a special area of knowledge



Source: http://m-w.com/dictionary/philistine

Dictionary.com defines "Philistine" as

Q u o t e:
4. smugly commonplace or conventional.



Source:http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/philistine

So thats right kids, you don't need a high school education to play Blizzard's games, nor do you need one to work for Blizzard! So grow up ignorant and slow, dream big dreams, kids!



edit: image rehosted.
#320 - April 30, 2007, 7:24 p.m.
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Thats right, despite a 'through investigation' the GM didn't have the sense to look up the word in question in the dictionary, or a dictionary website to confirm what this word actually meant.

Rakar, it does appear as though the incorrect policy was quoted when sending out this email regarding a violation of our Harassment policy. The word you've blurred out of the screen shot is the word for which you served a three hour suspension, not the word philistine. I'm sorry about the confusion this caused you. I've sent an updated email explaining this.

With that said, please be aware that contesting account actions should be handled through Account Administration only in the future.
#326 - April 30, 2007, 7:37 p.m.
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Yeah, it turned into what a horrible person I am for reporting the OP for posting about his punishment. Then it became somewhere around twelve pages of people spewing insults at me, before a few people discussed things finally and it settled down. Then our resident attention-tramp (polite term), Nikkikayama, climbed out of his hole and dredged the entire thing back up to try to badmouth me some more.

And then Batta addressed the OP's concerns, locked the thread, and skipped off into the sunset...

We all live peacefully.