Something I enjoy doing on my priest is lifegripping the heros that don’t change targets or tunnel on target to get max DPS. Most of the time they are just clueless and go attack whatever I grip them to

“Why not? If we, the players, got to decide when to ban someone for their behavior”

Fixed….

Bizzard will NEVER implement this system. PERIOD. End of statement. Turn off the lights. Go home.

Why not? If we, the players, got to decide when you ban someone for their behavior, anyone spending more than 30 seconds in a major city would find dozens of people to suspend. Thinking that there are more rational gamers who simply want to play a game than there are trolls and degenerates that spend all their time in /2, most of the people in /2 would be suspended. Eventually, that 3 hour suspension would turn into a permanent ban.

This would cost Blizzard thousands upon thousands of subscribers. Their numbers have been falling enough without this. Guilds would suddenly find themselves without “Jimmy, the Supertank” because he was suspended/banned for his behavior, thus they’d complain to Blizzard, which could leave to more people leaving the game for some other universe in which to play, one where “Jimmy, the Supertank” can be as big a jerk as he wants without his guild suffering for it.

NOW – That said. I WOULD LOVE TO BE ON THE COMMITTEE OF THOSE WHO GETS TO CHOOSE WHO TO BAN. I don’t mind off-color jokes, etc, but some of the stuff I read in /2 is just, wrong. Wrong for private conversation, definitely wrong for “public” conversation. And it doesn’t have to stop there. Some of the people I’ve joined in pugs are terribad. No, not their DPS/HPS/TPS, their attitude, that they don’t have to do anything and can get carried to gear/points.

Like I said, it’ll never happen. Blizzard won’t do anything to hurt their subscription numbers right now. Would be lovely, though.

I remember when I first heard about this system. In my opinion, it’s absolutely brilliant in its efficiency, and at the same time terrifying in what it represents. To tell a person to do what they think other people would do, rather than trust in their own opinion and judgement. To tell people straight faced that conformity is the highest priority, justice secondary.

Thought to be fair I’ve yet to find an Oceanic server I didn’t acutely dislike. Nagrand is probably the least-unpleasant, I suppose. Maybe playing on an RP server has given me unrealistic expectations. =P

I’m not sure why they think the judges need rewards for this, maybe because it was a GM job before and now it looks like they want that work done for free?
I’d believe, though, that player engagement in governing the games they play themselves is hugely underestimated. Think of the MVP status on the WoW forums, people are very willing to provide helpful advice on the forums, and if they were allowed to do the same for the game in terms of keeping harassment etc down, I’m sure they would grab it in an instant, I know I would!

In WoW I’m not really sure what a suitable reward would be perhaps a small token of VP/CP your choice, but it would have to be fairly small so that running a dungeon or arena would still be more optimal. If they offer an exclusive title/mount/pet I think it would end up a disaster.