No more jail: Graal's Reform

[HoudiniMan]

Today I witnessed first hand an extremely foul player on Graal. This player was reported to staff and was put in jail. The player then proceeded to mass message his profanity, arguing with staff's judgement.

I sat there contemplating why this didn't seem to happen on other online games, be they MMORPG, FPS, or even Poker. Then it hit me: These games don't jail you. They ban you right away if you act up.

Take for example a common FPS game "Counterstrike: Source". In this game a server admin can ban your "account" for a given ammount of time or permanently.

So I propose we stop putting up with players who want to act up. Change the RC to include timed bans that automatically run out and use these in place of jails on servers. This will eliminate the age old contest of trying to devise "unhackable jails" and disallowing PMs from certain levels.

If a player can't connect to the server, they can't cause trouble. I would propose if a player is swearing excessively and won't stop when asked, simply ban them from the server for a couple hours. It becomes necessary to have timed bans because naturally people will lose track of release times or may be offline. Also, it should be displayed to the client in the ban information the time remaining until they are unbanned, or if the ban is permanent.

I think this would steeply reverse Graal's downhill slide into profanity and unrestrained insults. You get banned you're going to think twice the next time.

"Jails" are for RPing. Ban is for punishment.
I for one think it's time to stop putting up with it.