lol nubcake, ujin must be my top personal banner punisher with tenne 
It's only because I care!
Anyway, I will say I am biased but usually in the opposite way to what you'd expect. The people that I like, the people that I talk to, people like my clan mates or fellow players I get along well with, I will come down harder on since I know they're good people and should know better, if you're in that position with me, it is a bad thing in that regard.
I also found what Grumbs said quite interesting, it has a lot of valid points but I believe the way that it currently is staged makes things much more open for the community, it's a close nit group of people really unlike the one that you were in. Due to the larger nature of it, I would assume that there were lots of smaller groups who would run around together, if one of those guys got banned, the admins would only have to deal with that close group, no one else would care. Here, because everyone pretty much knows everyone, even if you did something through pm's, you'd have their clans coming up against you, that would span out to the supporters of those clans and it'd be the same, only in private where people will be more inclined to insult and be a general twat because it's private.
I believe that would make our jobs harder, sure we get pillocks posting rubbish in the ban section (and I believe all admins should have basic moderator powers there so that they can warn those idiots off) and regardless of what happens, we get a few prats messaging us and maybe a few comments in game, but if it is out in the open, you lay out all the facts, reasoning and understanding for everyone to make their own decisions.
Word of mouth opposed to out in the open, the word of mouth will always be biased depending on who you talk to while you can't hide anything when you're posting on an open forum and as I say, given the tight-nit community we have here, everyone knows everyone and they'll get the word of mouth if it is private.
That's my view but I will say an interesting method, it could work but I don't think we'll know unless it is implemented, I am just speculating given our surroundings.
