[Butz]

True, bans are not something to be taken lightly, but they're an action that shows that certain things won't be tolerated. There were jails like that on other servers before, and with them, people going for the record for most times in jail.

When a player pays for a gold account, they gain the privilege to play on those servers, not the right to play on them. If they choose to break the rules and cause trouble, it's well within the rights of the staff to temporarily remove that privilege to send them a message.