Account Penalties Decrease after Each year (add as a rule)

[Vaer]

AFAIK they give you a bunch of chances unless you are a really bad offender with a first time perma ban in which case you probably deserved it. Not to say GMs don't make mistakes but IMO they are pretty lenient. I mean if they give players a bunch of strikes and they screwed up again more than once after being warned that is kind of on the player at that point.

Letting strikes drop after a certain period of time would just make it so offenders can break the rules again if they felt like it which kind of makes it pointless. If it is really 3 chances for normal cases that is enough. There is still a buffer in between where players can correct themselves.