Wow, Smooth, you're actually a decent guy behind all that misanthropic trolling.
You know when I was admin I ended up chatting with dozens of constantly banned or about to be permabanned people who all ended up being pretty similar. They really liked cRPG, typically got really good at the game, but would abuse people or rules in the small community cuz of silly shit like being bored by, yet obligated to playing by routine, griefing others to vent stress, or just not caring but ending up amazed at how admins could demand people to write essays about degrading things like "WHY TEAMKILLING IS BAD" or permaban you for being mean in the toggable server chat.
It was stupid but still funny to be like a cRPG Social Worker with repeat offending trolls coming into my Steam chat office to explain themselves, my admin uniform barely concealing the BORN 2 TROLL tattoos up and down my arms and understanding them pretty well.
I think the main thing is that its hard for many people to take a videogame seriously, but cRPG by its nature sucked some people into wasting embarrassingly large amounts of their time on it, becoming attached to their looms and levels as something that was theirs. The idea of permabanning anyone but malicious hackers or unrepentant repeat autoblockers and such is crazy to me, cuz you are taking away something that has meaning or value to someone else, for no purpose but to make yourself feel powerful on the internet. Its stupid. And its something the devs themselves have never done, but the "NA admin team" circus certainly has since I (deservedly) got the boot, and wouldn't want to see people with Strategus oversight powers doing the same thing.
Ironically I banned Kesh for the same reason Kesh made this thread, to basically troll the devs into using their tools to look at an issue in Strat that I felt was sucking out all the fun, but impossible to moderate on our own. Multiaccounting and account sharing in my case. But ideally instead of impotently trying to treat the symptoms, you recognize the causes and fix those instead.
