Zaphod22 wrote:
There should NOT be any question as to if these actions are permitted or not. By stating that there "might" be punishment, this is not a clear indication of the rules that are to be followed. It needs to be Yes or No, not "Well, we'll see what happens and deal with it then."
I go back to what I have said before regarding clothing, skin color, etc. "If it's not in the Relto waredrobe closet, it's not allowed in public areas. Magic / bot effects stay where they are supposed to be."
I was paraphrasing a conversation, because as forum mod my responsibility is the forums not in-cavern behaviour, so I can't speak definitively on Cyan's policy on that or on bans in general. I'd anticipate though that anyone "caught" by Cyan using custom avatars and restricted clothing items in public places would probably be taken to one side and talked to about it in the first instance. If there were persistent infringements then a ban would surely be the outcome. As others have already noted it is possible for someone to quite innocently move from a private to a public area and simply forget to change, or not be aware that it's something that is disapproved.
In many respects, it'd be more responsible for the bot operators not to routinely dispense these types of thing, at least not without explaining the potential consequences to the user at the time of the request. Well, that's my opinion anyway.
As for your the latter comment quoted, I'd agree, and would also agree with Tai'lahr's suggestion that a PM to the person first could avoid a lot of uneccessary aggravation.