The rules, with I think the exception of the fleeing is equal to death rule, are well thought out, good for the community, well balanced, and when used properly they allow a constructive, fun, and amazing strong balance between RP, and in RP PvP.
jpo, your post and method for dealing with the issues you've run into are inspiring and absolutely fantastic.
This is a game, we take it seriously and work hard at it, but the main thing to remember for all those who are rule lawyerers or who are tempted to become like them, is that the rules are there to serve the RP.
Not the reverse.
To put it another way, the rules support the RP, the RP is the master of the rules, the rules should give way to the RP. The RP should not suffer because of the rules, or there is a problem. Since the problem isnt with the rules, it is with a person or persons who abuse them.
The long and short of it is, aside from totally blatant and obvious massive violations, just kindly mention the issue to the person, and if you get a nasty response move on.
I would propose that threats of sanction should BE a sanctionable offence, and that there should be a very very very stiff penalty for people who deliver a request for an illegitimate sanction.
Sanctions should be very rare, with the exception of one thing I have seen on server, and a few people who accidentally stepped slightly OORP, everyone I have met is dedicated to the community and their Characters, so a sanction should be a very rare thing indeed.
And threats of sanctions are un-necessary. period. the mature thing to do in the extreemly rare event that someone does something thats truly sanctionable, and excessively repeats this offence, targets you specifically, or causes major grief, is to simply go file the sanction. But only as an absolute last possible resort.
Sanction threats are nothing more than a low-brow way to cheat and powergame. End of story.
As for Lupusy's suggestions, remember, where something as complex as RP and community are involved, there is such thing as oversimplification.;)
"Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to several friends of mine, they like to keep a fixed distance from me most of the time, and they have a tendancy to spin and gyrate on multi-directional mounts faster than you can compensate for. They disgorge 75 isojoules of subatomic disruptive destructive energy. Fear the tachyon cannons"
