Being denied the ability to ask questions in Feast is miserable

[Gallus]

And... Then they'd get reported, muted and hopefully learn their lesson? If not, they get muted again, this time permanently... For such players effectively nothing would change, they'd still end up muted... I don't get how I can make this any clearer...

And then we'd possibly be back to square one with SE claiming to have an overwhelming amount of reports involving harassment pre-match.

This isn't a fight between me and you though, I'm not the one you have to convince here, the PVP community speaks for itself with its behavior and actions, and you are the ones that ultimately will demonstrate SE whether what you are suggesting could actually work or not.