Sanction Suggestion

[DannyDelicious]

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No one likes being sanctioned. And not too many people like being publicly shamed, even online. So why combine them both?

I'm aware that sanctioning is a requirement within the Discovery community. But I don't understand the public display of sanctioning. I would understand if the "sanctionee" wanted it to be made public. But I'm sure it's also understandable that once you (as an admin/staff) read someones report and acted upon it. The person who made the report may probably be sitting there grinning while whispering to them-self "That's my doing. I did that." which encourages pro-sanction behavior for certain power hungry people or sadists seeking enjoyment out of others misfortune.

The majority of players can tell once they've been sanctioned by logging into the game seeing half their weapons missing or the warning within their cargo (if that still happens). And once they've received that any normal disco user would log into the forums and contact a staff member to find out what's going on, where matters could be discussed in private. Chances are if it's somebody who's completely new, and they've been sanctioned on the forums they probably don't even use the forums so it wouldn't grab their attention regardless of the post being public or not.

Just a personal belief but I don't think a public punishment is the best way to teach somebody that they've messed up. I believe it only panders to the enjoyment of the person who has done the sanctioning and should stay between the staff/sanction victim

Another point I'd like to make is that it may cause some animosity between players. For example if I'm fairly new and I read "Mr.Blablabwhoever" has been sanctioned. In my head I may think "Whoa. That Mr.Blablawhoever sure is a problem. They must be a dangerous internet terrorist" even though the offense may be excessively minor, like running around with two ID's.


Complete side notes of why I think sanctioning may of been made public
- To get the sanctionee's attention
- No better existing system
- For the sake of simplicity
- To prevent admin corruption / underhanded behaviour within the staff
- To stop people going "Ay what happened to ... "
- To show the admins are taking action against people who are breaking rules
- Some rich folk have 1 billion chars and may not see it for a year

I understand that there probably wont be any change in the system and just wanted to offer food for thought. More than happy for anyone to educate me on things I may be completely missing. Also yes I understand my examples may be a little extreme, but not entirely impossible :D

PS: I've not been sanctioned. I've just been reading a lot of sanction threads.

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