[Henry]

Staff discretion is already in effect. There are many instances where staff discretion has prevented players from receiving an "escalated ban." Everything is done in a case by case basis. No two instances are the same. Players playing for only a few days doesn't mean they'll keep playing. Also, there is a reason why permanent bans are called indefinite bans. They can be appealed (not including players banned for cheating). Players consenting to fight each other is not RDM. Context is also very important, and is taken into account, which is the reason for death cams. 

Here's the staff guidelines
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qJLp...o6d3Q/edit

In which case, that's great, and exactly what I want, but that is not immediately apparent and I feel some recent bans fail to take context into account. I would still very much like to see ban time reduced so that "indefinite" isn't the default and I would like to see more leniency for returning players. I also think that though the rules and guidelines say that the rules should be applied consistently between players, I still think its obvious to most regulars that they are not applied evenly in practice, but that most often these occur when staff are offline. I think its worth encouraging a culture of reporting all rulebreakers, since right now it seems more common for donors and regulars to get away with a fair amount before any sort of ban request is filled out, and new members can be reported and banned almost immediately.