I feel like some of the magistrates need to look less at the letter of the law and more at the spirit and the fact that this is supposed to be a game amongst friends.
To me, Woelfy is playing a game with friends. When people are being irritating he's trying to work it out instead of calling in mom and dad to fix everything. The people on the other side who are continually filing reports about him are not playing like friends, they're playing like socially deficient internet trolls who are trying to use the authority figures in the game to further their aims.
This, I think, is the most important part of this post to take note of, and it has actually made me change my mind on the question of whether any punishment should be levied upon Woelfy/Kyle.
If the Magistrates treat the law like a straitjacket, being bound by the feeling that they
must punish
any perceived violation, then they are abdicating their responsibility to provide
justice, and not merely punishment.
As has already been pointed out, Kyle has
voluntarily taken the second-worst action that can
ever be used as a punishment in BattleMaster: he has deleted his character. The only punishment we have that is worse than that is a permanent account lock. So aside from telling him, "Please don't do that again," what, exactly, do you think would be an appropriate punishment for Kyle at this point?
Justice requires more than an iron grasp of the law. It requires compassion, and the ability to see when someone is, despite what their immediate actions may be, a victim, for whom a punishment for their actions will simply serve to alienate them from the community and cause further stress—in other words, to amplify significantly the effects that those harassing him have already been having on him.
