Blocked wrote:
Harsher punishments will bring no good whatsoever.
If you were to harshly punish a new player, he would end up leaving the server as no one would want to be jailed for 5 minutes for such a simple mistake they've made when they could've just been told not to do it again and simply read the rules.
If you were to harshly punish a troll who clearly came on the server to troll no good will come either, if you honestly expect the troll to behave then you are mistaken, he will only keep on trolling and try to loophole more and more, unless you try to reason with him, I've personally reasoned with many people who came on the server to troll, some ended up leaving, others actually stayed and became a part of this community for a good while.
If you were to harshly punish a community member who has been around for a while you will only cause them to resent you more and more, causing this hate mob mentality towards staff members to spark more and more, I've been a user and I've been a staff member, and I know what users say about staff members, and none of it is good.
If you actually expect that harsher punishments will stop rule breakers, you are very wrong, if you try to reason with the rulebreakers however, some good might come of it, but nothing bad will.
TL;DR: Try reasoning with rule breakers instead, in the end it's a game, stop taking this too seriously to the point where its like a government job.
Perfectly said