[Salty]

*TL/DR at the Bottom*

Hear me out real quick; MOST people usually don't need a gag to last longer than a 30 seconds to get an idea that they went overboard with what they were doing. The concept of gagging someone for a round is something that should only be done if it is a persistent issue. When you gag someone for an entire round, that not only irritates them, but it also irritates everyone around them, which can lead to more problems for staff.

I look at it this way: 

Micspam
1st offense (Depending on severity) Warn or 10 second gag (for more egregious offenses)
2nd and 3rd: 30 SECOND gags
4th: Round gag
5th: Map gag (I highly doubt you'll ever have to get this far, but it's possible.) 

Something about Micspam: A quick scream shouldn't be immediately gagged. Micspam is a subjective thing so everyone looks at it differently, but the only time someone doing quick screams should be addressed if they consistently do it after being told to chill out.

Racism
1st Offense: short gag (no longer than 10 seconds)
2nd: 30 second gag
3rd: Round gag
4th: Map gag
5th: Temp Ban (No longer than 3 days)

Harassment
1st Offense: warning
2nd: Round Gag
3rd: Temp Ban (No Longer than 3 Days)

Looking at what Jammin says, you're jumping from Maybe gag lengths of "1, 5, 30, and 1440 for micspam, 1, 20, 1440 for harassment/flaming, 5 and 1440 for racism/slurs?"

I'm going to assume he means minutes here. You're going to gag someone for an entire day after 4 offenses? Jammin I usually agree with what you say, but I personally find this to be WAYYYYY too strict. Racism should be handled the most severely, but I still believe a DAY gag is ridiculous. 

Each individual server group has their own communities inside this larger one, so something that works on TTT would not work on PH DR or Murder and vice versa, so I won't try making a statement that "all servers should staff the same," but I just felt like sharing my opinion.


TL/DR of everything that isn't guidelines: 

-Micspam should be something viewed with more flexibility, but we should be very firm/rigid about racism/harassment
-I believe a succession of quick short gags work better for solving problems than round gags, as these longer gags can lead to tension/divide to occur between players/staff UNLESS it is something that is warranted for longer gags (i.e. constant racism/harassment)
-Although I'm offering a suggestion, I understand that what works on one server might not work on others. This is just a "sales pitch" for a lack of a better term.

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or.... hear me out real quick..... 



we could just ABOLISH the gag and mute command perms from donors, then proceeding to only keeping gags as a short temporary thing. If you proceed with this kind of idea, someone will be like "well I'm gonna get banned so I might as well cause as much shit as I can while I'm still here."

Donors who think they're staff are a cancer in this community; they shouldn't be able to do anything other than queue music on TTT

Good luck getting that idea passed. We've all tried. The idea of a timed gag is really our best option.

Sorry I didn't even counter what you were saying. I don't necessary like the concept of putting trust in a system command because if that command were to fail, then it'd literally be a waste of time trying to bring it on the server. It also might cause issues in terms of screwing up the other current add-ons that are on the server, but I'm not well-versed in coding so I'll leave that kind of conversation for those who know what they're talking about.