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A lot of things, especially regarding chat based offenses, there will always be subectivity and context.

If I advertise, Hey please go to X awesome server!
Im obv gonna get banned.

If Im talking to a friend and accidentally say something like 'Im going onto x server want to come' and do /g instead of /r, which happens all the time, Im extremely less likely to be banned but will likely be warned to be more careful.


Also, there is an entire page worth that every staff has access to with guidlines on what to ban for each offense, how much fines should be, when to perm, when to warn, etc.

All staff have to post on the staff only section of the forums every single ban that is over 6 hours with proof and the whole deal. This allows admins and smods to moderate bans to make sure they are fair.

The reason that it is so subjective is youre asking a bunch of mostly kids who are volunteering on a mc server. It really really does not matter and if someone is being unnecessarily toxic they will eventually be removed.

Overall... Chill. Its not a big deal. There already is a page that is exactly what you described.
Let staff do their job.

 

For the previous two years I have been a part of the team, staff have had guidelines for bans. Hackers are permed, dupers are permed, xrayers are permed. Thefts have set amounts. Caps in global? Inappropriate content in global? Chat based offenses are far more subjective. Should someone who's done this same thing six times be banned for longer than someone on their first?

When dealing with anything chat related, there's always going to be variation, but it's not as if some staff are saying "yea you can go dupe" and others obviously tell you not to. Each case is wildly different, simply due to the fact that there are different severeties, banhistories, forms on punishment, and a number of other contextual differences. The team has had outliers, but as a whole the system works, and there's no need to change it.

 

Denied, we already have these things in place, it's up to staff to enforce them correctly.