[Ryan]

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We don't do server-wide bans for racism/harassment/disgusting comments (extreme cases aside), which I consider to have a more negative impact on the server environment. If we do all-server bans for hacking, do you think we should also do it for egregious attacks on character and blatant bigotry?

For some of our perma-bannable offenses, yes. Things like serious pedo talk, extreme harassment, confirmed ddos/intentional server crashing, and doxxing should be global bans. I do believe, tho, that these are fights for another day. If this suggestion gets passed and we can write up a procedure for cross-server bans, then we should definitely visit some of these. The reason why I wanted to tackle hacking first is because it has the highest likelihood of being transferred from one gamemode to the other, and has a better chance of running people off the server if there are no staff on.

As for racism, if you are talking about someone that comes on, spams some slurs, and gets banned, I would vote neutral on that for this reason: while deplorable, their impact on gameplay, safety, and enjoyability are relatively short lived. 95% of the time everyone moves on and forgets about the guy that slurred 2 seconds after they are banned.