I do agree that there's a whole lot too much law-mongering and OOC-playing going on. People want to win at any costs, including attacking their enemies on the forum and elsewhere.
That needs to stop. We really need a couple wars and destroyed realms, especially on the more stagnant islands, to shake things up and people out of this mindset.
I'm afraid we may need more than that, for this and other reasons...
The player density is still very low, Tom. We may yet need to resort to stronger measures to push it back up to less upsetting values in order to make BattleMaster play like it's supposed to.