Any Act with the INTENT to Cause Distress is a Bannable Offense

Hello, Since ZOS TOS and Code of Conduct are not super clear on the matter, I would like to get feedback from the community at large regarding harassment as outlined in a response I recently received in a ticket I submitted after getting a temporary ban for crouching on someone's body in PVP (commonly referred to as "teabagging", but I had no idea what this was and was completely stupified when I was banned for it). As most of us are currently aware, players are getting banned left and right with the justification that harassment was alleged by the accusee. When I asked ZOS to be more specific on what exactly constitutes a ban, I was met with a generic and unhelpful answer, shown below.

This is unsettling to me because there is no way one can prove objective intent to harass. If I kill the same player over and over again because they keep running up to me, is that harassment? If I troll ball groups with siege and immobolizations with the intent to cause them distress because I don't like them, is that harassment? If i place siege or emote over a dead player's body, is this harassment? Where is the line? I think these bans overall are a little ridiculous and I would like more transparency. What do you think? Thanks all! Have a great day! Looking forward to a nice and productive discussion. Cheers, Snoop

Hi all, we are going to close this conversation down as we have given a stance on this fairly recently. Ultimately, we expect folks to be polite and civil to each other. We understand the want to showcase dominance in PvP through the virtual act of teabagging, but given the nature of the act itself, we also understand folks who get upset being on the receiving end. Even in professional sports there is a line in the sand for appropriate sports-conduct. ZOS_Kevin;c-8157507

Hi all. We wanted to address the recent conversations around teabagging and proper etiquette around the action in-game. In the past, we have noted that context matters when teabagging in-game and when responding to that action. Teabagging in-game is generally not a direct violation of ToS. However, when an impacted player asks you to stop and you refuse, that is when we have crossed into targeted harassment territory. If this happens and the impacted player reports the incident with video proof, then an investigation will open for ToS violations for targeted harassment. This can lead to possible suspension or permanent ban. So please take requests to stop seriously. For those reporting a potential violation, please make sure you provide a video that makes it clear that you asked the user who teabagged you in-game to please stop the action and continued action after the ask. We hope this clears things up for everyone, especially as we are going into Whitestrake's Mayhem. Again, we understand why some players choose to engage in teabagging. But we want to respect anyone's wishes who do not want to be subject to the in-game action of teabagging.

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