Is it our duty to report people? Should it?

[Omi]

No.
Sanction reports are only meant to deal with malicious rule breaking.

I would assume that most rules are broken without knowledge and can be dealt with better by explaining the mistake and educating the player to avoid it next time.

This is my view on it, too.

I've only filed one report in my time here, and that was when I saw the same rule broken again by a certain person literally within two days of the first violation, and I knew for a fact that he'd been lectured on the rule in question on the first occasion.

Everyone - unless they are outright obnoxious and unrepentant - deserves an educational explanation first, in my book, before people start throwing out violation reports without even trying to talk things over.

This mostly just applies for new players and those otherwise ignorant of the rules, though. Anyone who could/would know better and/or seems to be wilfully flouting rules deserves a slap straight off.

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