Also, why doesn't advertising need warnings (and why is the mute for that longer than other "more serious" offenses)?
When a user advertises another server on Cubecraftgames, it can hinder our playercount significantly. Advertisements are always irritating to see and are seen as spam, and usually advertisers have absolutely no interest in our server at all aside from attracting our large playercount, and therefore strict punishments are given to those that advertise, since they usually don't care whether they're punished or not.
1) It's obvious it should be avoided.
Minecraft is a game, and some users take it incredibly competitively. It is therefore understandable that some users will occasionally verbally retaliate when beaten and/or taunted, as to vent their anger. Additionally, there are numerous servers that do not disallow swearing and offensive language, and therefore it wouldn't be fair to justify a single inappropriate line of text with an immediate mute. Racism, death remarks and seriously offensive language to some extent, may still result in an instant mute and said mute may last longer than a typical mute punishment, depending on the offense.
3) If a victim doesn't know about the warning rule, they won't be able to seek moderator action against bullies.
We try our best to make our rules as clear as possible, however I would agree that some users simply don't know how to access the rules, and some rules are simply vague. If however a user feels as though they're being attacked, they are under no obligation to remain in the same lobby, and under the circumstances that a player is verbally attacked in-game, they are able to change lobbies to avoid it from continuing. I will see if an advertisement of the server's rules could be implemented as an occasional global announcement so that this hopefully can be avoided in the future.
4) The rule is abusable (somebody can clearly know bullying is against the rules, he will bully people until told to stop, then he will stop immediatly so he can get away with it).
If a user accumulates enough warnings, regardless of whether they were all given at one time or not, they are eligible to be punished since it is clear that they are intentionally breaking the rules. As previously mentioned, some chat rules may not necessarily require evidence for a punishment to be issued, depending on the offensiveness of what was said.
