The Silence Penalty

[Anienai]

Could they implement that on the forums?

[Kyu-Momo]

I wouldn't mind seeing this implemented either, but ONLY if they take the time to actually investigate the logs before they dole out the sentence. From my few years of experience with this game, the community is no where near as bad as WoW's is (or maybe that's only because I'm on a mid-population server?), but there are still plenty of trolls that would report people just for giggles and knowing that they would have the chance to ruin someone's day.

[moleverine]

I'd be happy to have a simple mute button in instances. It doesn't need to be server- or account-wide, it doesn't even need to be persistent. It can clear as soon as I'm out of the instance. I just don't want to see your overly-complicated macros you have for every skill.

[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....

[Linadae]

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

[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.