Captain's right. Cloaks were made to hide, we don't need more nerfing on them. They are already pretty useless, if you are very far away from "home". But on the other hand, I agree with Phantom (oh my God, write that in calendars): BS should be REMOVED from the players with really bad English and bad RP.
There's yet another side of the coin: sometimes player do not have time for reaction and it applies to both sides - attacked and defender. Like a situation in which target is escaping and you can't really follow your target while doing "essays", unless it stopped.
Overall note at the end: if it's fault of some bad players, why to punish everyone around?
