Quote Originally Posted by Krotoan View Post
You are taking the prison system metaphor and hypothetical too far. This is a game. Nobody knows your past infractions in game. This is technically a "perfect" system in which nobody but the judges know your history and it only comes into question when you relapse. Your re-integration into the system has no lingering or visible marks that others you interact with in anything relevant to the game can see or access.

It would only be a worry for those who have "heavy" strikes on their record, as it should be. Do not recommit. Do not lapse. REMEMBER that this is your last chance.



Thank you for going back. I know there's a lot to sift through as I can be verbose. As you say.. exactly as I feel, infractions should have weight and that weight should determine both punishment and permanence.
This is why I tend to not bring up IRL situations, but since you brought it up I went with it. That being said sure it is a game why make the choice between certain actions? That is part of the problem we do not know, the rules are vague and what is viewed as harassment to one may not be the same to another. That does not excuse the action and they should be punished but if said person learned that they cannot making comments that they did to everyone maybe it common amongst their group of friends who knows the reason why. That said if they learned from their mistakes and have not done anything for x amount of time why not as a sign of good will get rid of their strikes. In the end nothing really changes cause. Say if you have strikes on your account and do nothing wrong ever again it more or less functions as not having any strikes on your account in the first place. Unless for some reason you think people will math our their negative actions and say I can do one bad thing every 4 years or something cause that is when my strikes reset? I do not think most people will have that kind for foresight for harassment or cheating in a video game.

Though this is all why I said we should just get rid of the warning system, do something wrong get a 3 day suspension right off the bat, but make sure to clearly state what they did wrong. If this leads to witch hunting instead of self reflection then take harsher action at that point.