The biggest problem is most of us want to encourage new racers to learn. We are willing to allow exceptions for them, even when they brake way to late for turn one and take everybody out. The wrecker idiots take advantage of this niceness in all of us. This then in turn makes a lot of us react negatively to honest mistakes. Our first reaction upon getting hit is to call the other driver a wrecker. I personally think this is the biggest damage that wreckers do. Not ruining a few pick-up races on a server, but they cause disention and disrespect amongst honest racers.
So, the way I see it is to do one of two things: Be very liberal with bans and realize that if you make a mistake and take out other cars, that you most likely will get banned from a server, even if you are not a wrecker. Live with it and try not to make big mistakes in the future.
Or, we can just keep trying to be nice and deal with the wreckers like we always have. Once they are identified, ban them and try to spread the word with other server admins. This can be frustrating, but is probably still the best way to go.
One thing that would help is to have a website address in the welcome message for all organized servers and on the website have a "contact the admin" email link. That way it would be easier to contact admins. Or, just post that email as part of the welcome message.
So, the way I see it is to do one of two things: Be very liberal with bans and realize that if you make a mistake and take out other cars, that you most likely will get banned from a server, even if you are not a wrecker. Live with it and try not to make big mistakes in the future.
Or, we can just keep trying to be nice and deal with the wreckers like we always have. Once they are identified, ban them and try to spread the word with other server admins. This can be frustrating, but is probably still the best way to go.
One thing that would help is to have a website address in the welcome message for all organized servers and on the website have a "contact the admin" email link. That way it would be easier to contact admins. Or, just post that email as part of the welcome message.
