Ideas for server rules

[PabloDons]

PabloDons - you said "if it's not broken, don't fix it", but it appears to be broken to me. If someone spams, is that against the rules? If someone tries to crash the server, is it against the rules? Is it against the guidelines? Rules aren't written down as a zero-tolerance policy, but as a "You can't say I didn't know" policy. Also it can be a guideline for banning people, not for admins that are lenient but strict people for "This is the soonest I can kick/ban people who are breaking the rules".

ok, I'm going to reply to get you into my train of though. first of all I don't want rules to be implemented because staff is surely capable of making decisions themselves. That's what I tried to point out.
The other reason is that rules make administration a lot stricter. yes, spamming is really annoying, but there's certain things that isn't against the guidelines like repeating something because you're trying to reach someone not noticing the chat. maybe not the best example, but it will do. About trying to crash the server, the guidelines are more than enough to deal with that. if you try to crash the server, you're being a dick and breaking multiple guidelines.
If you're going to implement guidelines for banning, it's going to become stricter over time. There's no doubt about that. People become too quick to issue warnings/punishments because they'd rather not be too easy on anybody because that would be unfair. If there's limits to how quick you may issue warnings/punishments, it would mean people would keep close to those rather than be too easy.

Not only sub-consciously, but staff would also expect others to keep to those rules to the word. which means of you step just a tiny bit over the line, there's no excuses or second chances. There's basically no room for apology. If you're going to draw a red line, you're limiting the room players can play on.

All in all, the guidelines are all you need to make a good and fair decision. If you're being annoying or disrespectful (that line is very clear, you have no idea), guidelines make room for apology and it's a clear way of showing respect and politeness to make yourself worthy of a second chance. That's what I love the most about the current system