Change to the ban system.

[Penthea]

And there would be a trade-off. An offense after a year, you get a repeat of the easier punishment instead of the harsher punishment, but if they repeat the offense again after a certain period, it actually bounces the penalty up because it shows your period of good behavior might've been a fluke or lack of reports more so than an honest attempt to do better.

Yea you would never get a "clean slate" so to speak. Your account would permanently be flagged as having been troublesome at some point.

but think it shouldn't be an automated process so much as something the GMs should take into account when deciding on punishment

Oh god no. Something like this needs to be handled by a person. Completely agree.

[kikix12]

That doesn't work. There are point systems for dangerous driving in certain countries where if you get X points you lose your drivers license. If you do NOT get any points for some time, some of those points are rubbed off.

So, what happens?! Certainly not a sudden change of heart and realization that going 120 through town center is dangerous. People just wait for their points to disappear and then fill em right back up shortly after...because they never changed. They just wanted to avoid having to go through the process of getting the drivers license again.

And repeat criminals that are caught and fined/jailed?! If someone repeated some crime once, they are very likely to repeat it for years to come if given the opportunity. Some people really do commit crimes out of desperation and they end at "once". But those that commit crimes more than once either WANT to commit crimes (and only feel disgruntled they got caught) or cannot control themselves...And I can tell you that your victim won't feel any better finding out you assaulted/robbed or killed them just because you couldn't control yourself due to ailment of some sort.


The system is fine. So long as people don't get strikes for false charges, there is no need to remove them, be it "soft removal" or "hard removal" from the record. That's why there is little problem with bans in game (they actually do care to investigate and consider something), but there is a problem on the forums (you can be banned on forum for being reported more often than for doing something offensive, it seems).