Had I not joined this forum 9 months ago I would not have had any idea that there was a even call for active moderation. I’ve been in the game for 18 or 19 months total and the first 6 or 7 of those was on a private unlisted dedicated server we ran just for a few developer colleagues and artists. When I heard there was a call for such a thing I winced, but mostly kept quiet thinking it would be to combat actual cheaters. When it became apparent that wasn’t the case I tried to make sense of it all. It seemed (4 or 5 months ago) that everyone but an exceptional few were trying to figure it all out too - and were having a hard time of it.
I thought I could helpful by documenting all of the reports here and joining a bunch of servers to see what I could see and document that as well - then forming a list of things people were actually being banned for - as evidenced in 30 examples, I could pass that and a text version around so people here could understand and players playing would know how to avoid the ban hammer. A few people were receptive and few not so much - so I just stopped after posting it in 6 or 8 different threads. Maybe @Umborls can take a look and say how accurate it is or isn’t and maybe also use a few of those things for his next round of image explanations…
I’ve gone back and forth agreeing and then disagreeing and vice-versa, with Funcom’s “rules”. But what I’ve never agreed with is banning people for first and second violations of almost any of them. This is what I would most like to hear @Umborls address - unless he already has and I just missed it.