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by rogerbinns 4710 days ago
> We have a number of banning mechanisms ..

Did you try the other approach taken by many sites of making their posts/activity hidden from others? Initially they can't tell the difference between being ignored and being hidden. It also has the advantage that if they were incorrectly hidden you can turn it off and their activity is still present.
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jeremysmyth 4710 days ago
We did this for social contact (channels, forums, and other forms of communication) for a while, but because it's a MUD, it's a shared world with persistent effects, so it's impractical to make all activity invisible. Blocking social communication just resulted in other forms of griefing as a result. Griefers gonna grief.
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whatusername 4710 days ago
Could you spin up a griefer instance of the MUD?

So all they interact with (and can disturb the world of) is other griefers?

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