Taking the game hostage

Forgive me if I am not up to date on this, but last I recall, it is possible to avoid triggering crows simply by stealthily traversing the map. The crows are more just catching people who are mostly remaining idle, not people who are moving around the map to hide.

It's not an echo chamber if there is a definitive, factual answer. Not doing gens for over half an hour is reportable according to the devs.

To clarify, I meant that my statement that you were in the game was obviously unrealistic. That second statement that your quoting is not an attack on you. If you have anything else to say to me then dm me. I am not going to let your need to fight everyone, which I have read in other threads you post on to run this post and the help that the original poster is seeking. That last sentence would be an attack on you. As said above, the question has been answered. Let the OP decide what they want to do and end the discussion.

I have already spoken about this. To summarize, currently: either the notion of hostage taking is not defined correctly and/or it is dishonest, or hostage taking simply does not exist in reality, or it is possible for any survivor to correctly argue that the hostage-taking was never his intention.

Use Whispers, and/or Iron Maiden. Hate the game, not the players.

"Holding the game hostage" is listed as an official reportable offense in multiple places. The dev here is officially clarifying that not doing gens and hiding for long periods of time counts as holding the game hostage.

If someone gets banned for such an offense, the argument that "you didn't say that not doing gens and hiding for a super long time is not allowed" will absolutely not fly.

Hiding is allowed according to the rules. No one doing gens for super long periods of time because of hiding is what is not allowed.

I do not have access to the list of people banned, so asking me to provide that is silly. I can't even show you evidence of people being banned for straight-up hacking.

If the Killer makes no effort to look for Survivors and just camps by a 3-gen setup, that Killer can be reported for holding the game hostage. I have seen a thread on here about someone who was complaining about being banned for that exact reason. So no, it doesn't make sense, but not for the reason you think.

Both Killer and Survivor can be banned for holding the game hostage. If the Survivors decide they want to go hiding indefinitely instead of doing gens, leaving the Killer to spend ages searching for them and be stuck in the game, that is reportable. If the Killer decides he wants to just stay by a 3-gen and refuse to chase/down Survivors, leaving the Survivors to be unable to approach the gens and be stuck in the game, that is reportable.

I don't understand what you find confusing. I am telling you something that someone actually said they were banned for. Also, Peanits did not say that you might get banned if you wait longer than 2:35. That is just you misreading the post.

If one side is stalling out the game and not actively contributing to bringing the game to an end, they are not doing their objective.

And you are misinterpreting what that quote means. Allow me to quote it in full:

What the above quote is saying is that struggling on the hook is not taking the game hostage because you can only stay on the hook for a small amount of time (2m34s, to be exact); you cannot stay on the hook for a super long period of time. The 2m34s is Peanits saying that that is the longest amount of time you can stay on the hook before you definitely will die (assuming no one saves you), not Peanits saying that that is the longest amount of time you are allowed to hide before it is considered holding the game hostage.