Quote Originally Posted by Kittra View Post
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We had a little system for people like these back in FFXI and BG had a player report thread that was extremely popular. If you ever talk to someone from FFXI, 90% of the time they'll tell you that the community was "the best community in any MMO on the market," but that was only because all the extremely rude/a$$hat players had been culled from the game because everyone knew who they were and refused to do anything with them.

(Btw, public shaming of "rude players" is against the TOS of FFXIV and its forums, so this is not a possibility here.)
And that's why we had to take it to other forums to do so. We had them on Alla and BG. If you were an ass, stole items, did "other" unmentionable things, EVERYONE knew about it. You walked around with a scarlet letter. You were marked and cast out. Did it make the community better? Absolutely. Do we need this for FFXIV? Absolutely.