The Silence Penalty

[WinterLuna]

I like this idea. It would only be given to those who deserved it since a GM would have to issue it.

[Cakekizyy]

Not if it is an automated thing.

[Ametrine]

Looking at the "sent to GM jail" bit seems to me like it puts it at the front of the GM's priority for easy investigation.

They could easily look at the log, see the time stamps, and decide from there.

[KitingGenbu]

Wow I never heard of this coming, that would be an excellent idea, but the dev team can't even expand the blacklist list, so idk....

[NolLacnala]

I like the idea of community dictated moderation. My only concern is that some might use it as a way of abusing others. For example, someone could get their linkshell to constantly report someone they just don't like.
If they can prevent that kind of abuse, then I'm all for it.

The system they're implementing will need to not be fully automated and will require GMs babysitting the reports, since I've read several stories of GMs warning people for abusive language, when the only players they cursed at were gold sellers. This implies the gold sellers actually report people for harassment lol...

[Linadae]

Yes! I support Square 'borrowing' WoW's STFU penalty. We need this so much...

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Yoshi-p already stated in the E3 live letter that (not account wide) that they working on system that if person gets reported enough times they will get sent to GM jail automatically.

Poor, poor MrHappy and Mizzteq. That's going to be a rough system for them day one.

[Tyrn]

Seems pretty pointless, the reports still need to be investigated by a GM and at that point if they broke any rules they'd probably be temp banned anyway with a regular report, and if they didn't break any rules then the people who got their precious feelings hurt just wasted a GMs time that could've been better spent on helping people.

What SE should do is just fix the blacklist system we already have so that it still works in dungeons, is account wide and works cross-server that way people can fix their own problems and not waste a GMs time just because someone says something they don't like.

[InjaTheNinja]

I don't think silencing the spammers will make any difference if banning thousands of accounts every few months has yet to make any impact. What really needs to happen is the money making bots getting eradicated and every item they put for sale being taken down. Just look at the Lodestone for new guilds being founded, for Hydaelyn's sake! If a normal player can see gibberish guilds being founded and filled by black mages and bards with equally gibberish names, surely a GM can as well.

[yexie]

I'm all for it myself. Of course there may be the odd set of trolls who will report just for the laughs but I would assume if GMs checked it out and see the player never did anything worth reporting the people reporting would be in trouble then.

A solution for this was posted many times already though. If you can only report people that send tells to you and not just random people, a person that gets reported would have to be sending tells to many people, and one that does that is most likely worth a "silence" anyhow...
And yes, GMs can still quickly check those that have been reported, shouldn't take more than one look to see what the tells that have been reported said.