This.
When it comes to hackers, exploiters, or just a serious douchebag, a permanent ban is always an acceptable choice.
Yes but, if they still play a whole year later, they might have learned better by then. I think a year is long enough to let somebody back on, as they have likely changes as a person over that whole year.
If you're absolutely certain you don't want someone on your server, you don't have to deal with them. At the same time, being a jerkhole isn't OK, so you should always be reasonable, but permabans are definitely a legitimate punishment for more serious problem users.
I can not imagine a senario where somebody could do something so horrible through a game, that there is a low enough chance they will ever change, and even if there is, and they still play all that time later and come back. Is it really that hard to ban them again, a whole long year later?
i dont do anything BUT perm bans.
if you forget around on my server, i want you gone forever. i dont see what the big deal is.
its not my job to give you a second chance to learn a lesson. that stuff is your parents job.
Nobody said this was a big deal, just discussing it is all. I personally feel like perma-bans are always overkill. If somebody is that much of an issue, it is not that hard to ban them again a year later, assuming they still play and assuming they still are just as bad as before.
