User blog comment:XelNecra/Anonymity - The Source of all poison?/@comment-98.247.74.210-20130128101954

Pardon the irony of posting anonymously, I guess. xP

I don't like the concept. I'm inherently against any form of anti-anonymity policy on the internet in general, but in this case in particular, what you describe has no hope of being effective. I don't think much of anyone is going to pay to play on a special server where things are allegedly nicer when they're already playing League of Legends of free; clearly they've displayed that they're willing to tolerate the community. Beyond that, booting people out of the special server would do nothing except... allow them to play the game normally. Yeah, allegedly this would keep the server itself nicer, but that can still only work if you have an especially strict and effective version of the tribunal.

And if you're going to make a special tribunal for a special server... why not just skip the server entirely and just make the better tribunal for the rest of the game? The Summoner's Code already doesn't allow any of the behavior you're concerned about; the only reason the trolls and flamers are around at all is they haven't been reported enough yet. It's not going to suddenly become a more effective system just because it's on a different server. Effectively, that server will become exactly as the current server is -- you play unless you're rude too often and get reported too much, at which point you're kicked (with the added problem of them getting thrown back into the normal pool of players instead of just getting banned) -- except you have to pay for this one for some reason.

And, as others have outlined, anonymity is simply not the issue here. I've been on communities that are largely nice, where trolls are very rare (and yes this includes online games). And I've met people in real life who are worse than anyone I've met on the internet. Anonymity really just isn't a notable factor in something like this.