Personally, I think this rule change has made all the countless hours of work that every Game Moderator/Admin or any Moderation staff in general past and present completely worthless and gone to waste - including myself.
You have single handily made the community have to endure all those people AGAIN that were banned deservingly to begin with! And now they are allowed to come back and cause havoc to all the genuine rule biding players to have to go through the painstaking process of reporting these players AGAIN that was obviously banned for good reason in the first place - just for the sake of getting numbers back and put more pressure on the staff involved. If these players were banned 5 times in a row, they obviously didn't understand the rules and clearly had no care about actions.
Yes, some may come back and will think again about what they have done, but that will be a very small percentage.
These decisions are easily made by higher staff because they are the ones who make the decisions but don't have necessarily have to go through the heartache and countless hours that the Moderation staff has to go through - yes I understand they signed themselves up to do this voluntarily - but don't you think you've made all their work a laughing matter for all those who got banned permanently for a good reason to now go to waste?
I don't think a lot of thought has been considered in this for the people involved in the Moderation team, especially now for the GMM's because they are probably now the ones that are going to be involved quite highly (for those repeat offenders) in this to make sure if there are players out there that are just coming back to blatantly not abide by the rules, to have to re-do what's already been undone!
Why would do this to all these members of staff past and present? I know you may need numbers and you want to expand your player base - but surely there are other ways to entice more genuine players/new comers by other means. I really do feel sorry for the Moderation staff at this time.
I feel in some ways this has been a reckless decision for the majority, but I suppose it will be nice to have some old faces back and maybe they will think twice - I don’t know… only time will tell, I guess.
I have been here since May 2014 and have seen good and bad changes in my time - but overall this has to be a bad one, unfortunately, and hopefully, this be clear very soon and this rule will be amended again in the near future to compensate this. Perhaps, with an increased punishment like six months and then a year or just simply revert it back to how it once was?
But hey, now all those rule-breakers will now be rubbing their hands with glee, ready to once again ruin it for others for the sake of numbers.
However, this won’t stop me (and many others) from playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 with TruckersMP because I do love the community and always have and that's why I have been here as long as I have, despite the people you encounter that ruin gameplay, that's normal for most online communities, but I don’t know how I feel knowing that I will have to encounter all these rule-breakers, wind up merchants and deceitful players that I once banned myself or have reported in the past. Because I can tell you one thing, the things that have been said over the CB and in the chat over the years have been absolutely disgraceful to witness and before this rule change, a lot of those people were banned permanently and forgotten about, but they are once again allowed to come back… I won’t name any names, but if you have been here around here as long as I have, you’ll probably know who these people are! But if you're a newcomer or someone who hasn’t been here for a very long time you probably won’t understand, but watch this space, you will now encounter probably the worst in a long time!
These are my thoughts and opinions - make of that what you will - but everyone's views have to be heard, whether you agree with them or not. But it has been great to see people here who honestly care about this community as much as I do and don't want to see it fall because of these rule-breakers return.
Thank you for reading and have a lovely day ahead!
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