AmbientShade opened this issue on Aug 06, 2015 · 26 posts
3dstories posted Fri, 07 August 2015 at 11:50 AM
The first person writes the TOS (or any document) often with a certain intent in mind. The next caretaker reads what is written and interprets the words for himself or herself then enforces what is written. I just feel the TOS is a bit off, and the example in the TOS is a bad one; better none at all. Worst it indicates a record may be kept somewhere where Rendo officers write comments about users. I hope that is not the case, but if it is that folks realize the legal implications.
There was another thread where a member (Razor something) said it succinctly and wrote about keeping it simple: If an admin doesn't like something, just remove it and explain to the user why it was removed. I liked that. Sorry I don't remember where.
Pretty much, though, you and I are in agreement Ambient Shade.
Moreover, if you are granted access to play in someone's sandbox I do tend to think the owner of the sandbox has the right to create the terms of engagement, and if you don't like them you should accept that you can play or start your own sandbox elsewhere and not complain about it.
I was commenting more on the potential legal ramifications on what was written (it seemed awfully casual) since TOS has all those legal types of things in it like about what courts in what state will hear disputes. It would be bad if a member were written up by Rendo casually or haphazardly and that was then interpreted later perhaps by a court as being more insidious than it really was, say just for violating TOS by calling something 'ugly.'.