You are really punish 95% of the users becouse a few People makes "interesting" things?
And you really think it is more easy to disable a nice RP-Feature (the Hello's, names, and so on) than writing good rules? (Someting like "you have to wait for an answer" instead "you have to wait a reasonable time to react"...)
When i count right, i saw 3? 5? Santions where the "automatic" messages where a point in the last weeks. Just to give an other count: I use a setmassage About 3-8 times per hour when i'm in Systems with some other players.
So sorry, but i see no Relations between the count of the over-reliance by some players in an attempt to bypass the server rules and the using for RP.
I have no numbers (but they are in the Server-Logs) but when you ask me, you will find more relations between Freelancer-ID's and broken Server rules.
Becouse you should not ask me how many Freelancer(-IFF)-Ships with a Hand full (or more) ID's i see per day…
And when this (seems like) new non-english Player don't respont, my russian or spanisch is really not good enough to type that message to them.
Result: I have to ignore them or write a Violation Report. And the secound option will bring more work for the staff and less new players. What a win...