When Chute and I were talking about this in the last few weeks, he made a simple straight forward argument that I don't think anyone could argue against. Who enjoys being scammed? Simple anwser nobody. Nobody enjoys losing their hard earned items to some shady sleaze bag. The game at the end of the day should be about having fun and not having to constantly be worrying about someone manipulating you and stealing your stuff. With the rule added it allows the adminstration team to not only punish the scammers but also return scammed items to their right full owners. This process can always be streamlined going forward as we add better commands to these types of situation. But we won't know until we give it a shot. Considering the rule has just been added I don't think removing it now would do any good. I really do think removing scaming will allow all players to enjoy their experiences that much more.
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