Disable a Player's FC Chat privilege

[Stihllodeing]

Muting someone wouldn't solve anything in a heated argument. If anything, would make them even angrier...snip.... If the situation requires someone being kicked, muting won't help anyway.

Seeing if someone gets more angry can be advantageous. People can really show their true colors and surprise the hell out of you when they're angry. Muting them is not for kicking them. It's a purgatory. You don't do it with the intention of kicking them, you do it with the intention of finding out what was said and what happened.

Nothing irritates me more than racial slurs, jokes about disabilities, sexual preference cracks, etcetera. As people get comfortable with each other jokes like these or jokes similar in nature tend to surface. Saying something as simple and innocent as "that's retarded" can rub someone the wrong way. Free Company chat/voice chat is a tool shared by all, things are going to happen.

A time out chat is an easy way for officers and owners to take a few people aside in a completely objective fashion and say "Okay what happened?"

It's a tool for larger guilds with officers who are involved and accessible. Of course a bad league officer could abuse it, but they would abuse the tools they have anyway. Having this as a chat option wouldn't hurt anything at all and be a positive imo.

...snip... If they are really that rude, why do you want to keep them?

Some people just have a bad day once and a while. Some people are really active in their respective leagues, donate a lot of time and monies, and have some tenure. A good officer will think twice before just kicking someone and saying, "talk to me later".

More often than not, a good officer with good tools can make something good out of a bad situation.

[Dalex]

Snip. More often than not, a good officer with good tools can make something good out of a bad situation.

This person has a good grasp of the kinds of tools effective leadership can really take advantage of. Time out chat or muting is not meant to be a punishment, but a form of discipline, and despite the connotations, that is not a bad thing. Sometimes people just need a small bop on the head to straighten them out, and preventing them from making things worse by continuing an argument would help save relationships between members of a group. Concerns about the potential to abuse a mute function are not indicative of a broken tool, but of broken leadership, and if you find yourselves in a free company whose leaders WOULD abuse it, you probably wouldn't want to be in that free company in the first place.