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Would punishing people for reporting hackers discourage people from reporting anything?

I don't believe this was the intention of the original post. The question at hand is basically: "Should we punish people for calling out hackers OUTSIDE of adminchat?"

As for my view, I don't know if punishing people for it is the way to go. Maybe do something like what Nicol said and increase the rate of the "use adminchat" message if at all possible.