So it makes no sense in the situations that you listed, but what about these below?
1. New player repeatedly begging for ships/credits.
They should be helped. Learn to admin. Get better Moderators. If you don't want to help players, that's fine but its a poor service to a community. Rules are explained. That's it.
2. Random player logging online with a chatbot to repeatedly spam "DICKS".
This is an obvious Ban. It not even worth mentioning
3. One player kills another, the other player proceeds to rail on said player. (with or without ALL CAPS FOR EMPHASIS.)
Both players are warned. repeat offenders are kicked, then banned if they proceed with this behaviour. All ban are 30 days with half reduction for "good behaviour" or it becomes permaban. How many slots do you have? compare that with the number on your whitelist. If you have no whitelist you might reconsider that. Unless it's too hard to manage.
4. Several players engaging in a debate in a controversial subject. And by "debate" I mean screaming at each other in ALL CAPS FOR EMPHASIS while making comments on each others' mother, genitalia, and sexual orientation.#
They are warned and if they continue. Kick. Then Ban. Same as the above. For the same reasons. All reasons stated are ground for immediate ban. Read a Forum Eula sometime.
5. Chat is scrolling by too quickly due to high server traffic making keeping up impossible. If only there was some way to block some players who don't contribute much...
This makes no sense but I will assume you mean a lot of chat is on the screen. You can actually scroll down and it stops new chat until you release the mouse. I have never seen this to be a problem because spammers get kicked. then banned. etc.
6. Players talking about their personal lives. Bragging about "how many girls I nailed" is annoying, but is it worth banning?
Yes it is worth banning. If they value playing on your server they will abide by your rules. again. you have more players trying to join thatn you have slots. Why would you want those kinds of players. There are plenty of "Chaos" servers they can troll on, for everything else there is single player.
I fear that you continue as you raise little to support the idea that ignoring someone makes the problem go away. Just read that and listen to it out loud.
And please don't tell me you're expecting an admin to be on at all times.
Yes I do. Get more admins. Thats what you should be doing already.
Feeding trolls is the last thing you should be doing. That's what makes them act up in the first place. If anything I'd like things like Hellbanning to be in place so we can lock problem users in their own personal hell.
Arbitrary use of terminology is meaningless. You have the ability to ban and all the example you give are ground for that. If you want players and don't care how they act, don't expect them to respect your rules.
(Hellbanning is when a player is put on a global ignore list, they can chat, they can see other players chat, but no one can see theirs).
Permaban is by IP and starmade account.
Ban is temporary
Kick is a wake up call
Change_sector 1000 1000 1000 can actually help a lot
you could try actually taking some time to do speak with these players as often they are feeling ignored which causes thie kind of behaviour.
Treat the Symptoms?
or Cure the Cause?
I can't be an advocate of any anti-social tools / lazy admin commands. Which is what any "player_ignore" is.
If you ignore them they will eventually leave. So why not kick / ban in the first place.
If you can't take those decisions maybe you need some admins that can.
