There is a big factor everybody seems to forget in these discussions.Bozzax wrote:IMO
The good from exposing cheaters/exploiters in a player vs player game/competition dwarfs the bad from having the risk of someone being wrongly on that list temporarily. Typically timed bans or minor offences aren't worth the trouble but we talk about dupers, cloners or players running modified software.
You could even list unbanned players on top so anyone reading sees them first. Or simply have a 30 days grace period before they are listed. I doubt that "unbanned" will be a long list though.
It is just like any competition even though it is a game and letting for example Lance Armstrong keep his reputation and medallions is much worse. Secondly it may "help" other players to do the right thing when finding a bug (report it).
Still dev decide this.
The RoR team is going to extra lenghts to create Terms Of Service, of Privacy and all sorts of procedures that let them stay well low under the radar.
All it takes is just one guy who manages to stir up an hornet nest - maybe posting on some MMORPG websites as well - to have Game Workshop open an eye and look at RoR.
Give just them one split hair of a chance to force-close RoR and they'll do it, possibly with some unbelievable indemnity claims done to the Devs, in example with the excuse RoR "stole and smeared" GW's IP for <enter here whatever excuse including unjust bannings / scandals, allegged suspicious donations etc.>
I wouldn't certainly want to see RoR closed down, just to have the satisfaction of knowing that some "Harrbuzz1788" has been banned.
