[RussEfarmer]

oo I like this thread
You're absolutely right, we should not ban permanently for mass RDM on first offense. I think it is very stupid. I explain why here and here.

For VPN blocking, eh..  I don't see the point, We don't ban by IP often enough to make it that useful. In the situations where we DO ban by IP it would make evading the IP ban slightly harder, but it would also inconvenience people who use a VPN for other reasons.

If we did want VPN blocking it would be easy to set up (in theory). You would just have to pull in a IP address database like this one and block all data center IP ranges from connecting with the server firewall utility.

(FYI, bans are steamid based, not IP based)