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A ban is up for immediate consideration for severe harassment. Bryan’s new point system means the player will receive a 1-day ban for the warning alone, then the victim may file a ban request on the forums if necessary. The issue with that incident isn’t the system, it’s the fact that the only staff member who wasn’t busy brushed it off and assumed someone else would deal with it. I believe that Bryan escalating what should have been a 1-day ban to a 1-week ban due to the severity of the harassment fits your expectations perfectly.

I am in agreement it was handled better than it would have been in the past, I guess I’m just less merciful towards things that come across as particularly horrible. I think this falls under that and is way too light a punishment still.

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I've been saying the punishment scale for things is screwed up for years at this point, and yeah it's improved but it's still pretty stupid. Ranking on how easy it is to be banned, the most severe infraction on this server is mass RDM, which is an instant permaban... meanwhile to get a permaban breaking other rules, I would have to get warned for harassing someone four times, saying a racial slur eight times, making a pedophilia joke four times or threaten to leak someone's home address three times (key word, get warned for, and as we've seen recently, not all staff pay attention.) Obviously a good moderator will probably know to ban earlier/later for some of these things, but based on the staff guidelines alone, that's pretty dumb

I do think the warning system we have is pretty good I did not mention the in-between bans you need to actually get to the permaban, but compared to the instant ban clauses we have in our rules still, mainly for mass RDM and RDM and leave, what

EDIT: Just saw the response to Kaiwan's thread, a whole one week ban for harassment... wow so scary. We're putting transphobia by a regular player on the same scale as leaving with an unserved autoslay? Who's coming up with this?

The fact there’s a system set up at all now is the step in the right direction but I think the severity of it is superseded here and toeing the line of community ban consideration since this seems like the kind of player who would take it outside the realm of server chat and would be just as harmful on other platforms