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I have seen the signs of it from under my home on the Vetronia map to the temp maps of OR and SR.  Just a quick glance at todays ban page and the majority banned are xraying.  I have seen in the appeals of a couple that it was allowed on a server somewhere but I have in 2 years of playing MC and looking at servers yet to find one that allowed xraying.  My issue is it doesn't seem to be that serious an offense here.  People are sometimes simply asked to remove and stop, maybe a short temp ban, or they are banned but if they can make a passibly coherent appeal because their friends play here and they were just using it for single player then they get unbanned.  These same people about 75% of the time are banned hours to a few days later for breaking another major rule.  People who xray have no respect for the rules and are the saddest rule breakers because sweet jesus how hard is it here to get diamonds?  They are cheap, you can get them from chests in natrually created abandoned mines to digging/fishing/salvaging (when levels get high enough).  Oh and honest mining.  At current prices in shops a new player could vote one time and get a diamond.  Vote the full 7 and you got enough for a pick, shovel, and sword.  Basically there is zero excuse for doing it.

Asking for a zero tolerance policy seems out of the question with how lenient the server is but how about stiffer penalties?  Minimum ban times?  A week? A month?  If its not a nightmare for techs, how about zeroing their mcmmo levels?  All the other places I have looked at its a perma ban. with occasionally second chances provided for donors.  Can we do anything to make the punishment more severe to give some small measure of deterence to people thinking about doing it?  Right now someone loses their friend and immediately starts posting in chat asking for them to be unbanned and people just say "tell them to post an appeal"  There is an extremely good chance they will be unbanned, no matter what.  The only thing people can't get unbanned for at the moment is a chargeback.  Its disheartening to honest legit players to see no real consequence for cheating or to find signs of people cheating frequently when they are mining.  The server is picking up steam and growing pretty rapidly, I hope we can tighten the rules to handle the increase.