In an effort to help Truscott out, I'd like to address some of the points that were made.
Yes, sometimes the mods do make mistakes. For example, in UK 1 I was banned for multi-accounting. What had really happened is three brothers were playing the same world from the same computer and had failed to notify TW that they were sharing a connection. I sat one of the players for a couple days while he was out of town. Then I got banned. I figured out what must've happened, appealed, explained my side, and got unbanned and an apology from the mod.
Someone seemed to be upset by the appeal option, saying why appeal if you made a mistake. Remember there's always the second option of accepting the punishment.
Talking about how TWstaff should make scripts: Why should they? They are under no obligation to do so. Some do, but they aren't forced to. If you really wanted a script badly enough to do something in game, you'd make it yourself rather than complaining about how other people won't do it for you.
"Something that is bannable shouldn't be easy to achieve with the game." Oh really? Well lets start by going over some of the rules.
Rule 1: One account per player per game world. Its well known that many players play under aliases in different worlds. What's to stop them from doing so on the same world.
Rule 3: Can't attack, support, etc. same player with both accounts until 24 hours is over. TW can't do anything to keep you from breaking this rule. It would be equivalent of putting a ban on every player one accounts attacks so that the other couldn't attack it.
Rule 5: Communication. What's to stop someone from swearing or speaking in a different language. There is no way humanly possible that TW could read every single mail, post, village name, etc and then approve it.
Still feel like arguing on that point?
"Two accounts get banned for the same rule infraction, why are they treated differently?" This depends on any number of things. Maybe different mods banned them, and one might take an offense more seriously than the other. What if one account is a repeat offender and one made a first time mistake. Should the mods go easy on the one who's repeatedly broken the rules? What if one account takes rule breaking to the extreme while the other may just do barely enough to break it. One player might going on a swearing rant, using every swear word they know and several they made up to excess to cuss everyone out, while the other account may have dropped a single swear word into a conversation without really noticing it because that's the way they normally talk.
And lastly, transparency would help others learn what is breaking the rules? Really? I'm looking at the rule page now, and there are only two possible ways I really see someone breaking the rules.
A. They didn't read them at all.
B. They intentionally broke them.
So transparency solves nothing since it was that person's mistake in the first place. People should know the rules if they are playing the game.
