The 3-Strikes Policy - Is it really a good thing?

[Ralph2449]

Honestly throughout my years in online games many people kept saying "You simply cant stop a popular online game community from becoming a cesspool" and I was inclined to believe it since most mmorpgs I played, especially big ones like WoW have global chats that are filled with trolling, bigotry, slurs, personal attacks and sometimes even worse types of talk, many said this was an inevitable effect of the anonymity of the internet in such games, yet SE has proves it is absolutely possible to stop a big game community from turning into a cesspool and that is done by:

Taking your ToS seriously unlike most western companies who dont pay GMs or simply dont bother enforcing their ToS ingame unless something gets out of control
Paying GMs to actually enforce ToS and even talk to the rule breaker which makes it a far more memorable punishment than some silly email "you are banned for 12 hours cuz of X"

By actually doing that you teach people that if they break the rules, they will get punished, unlike in WoW where because most people know reporting wont do anything they dont even bother reporting resulting trade being filled with random vile comments every hour.


Honestly how hard is it for people to not be toxic, to not get mad and start attacking others in chat or to not throw slurs no matter how much you and your buddies like doing that in private because you are told its cool and fun to do that.

And there's 3 strikes for a reason, you can do something by mistake once, but if you keep repeating that mistake a month or two later then you clearly didnt learn.