Discussion: Should ID theft be punishable?

I keep hearing from friends of T5 guilds who get their ID's stolen by T6 guilds on ally side. People who are stealing ID's will weasel their way into the ID by saying they need to hand in a quest or whatever. This hinders progression of the T5 guilds and basically just harms the server, because there will be less and less players attuned for MH/BT.

So should or is ID theft punishable?

I agree it probably should be yeah and you or whomever it has happened to should name and shame the pieces of **** doing it.

I feel like this would be pretty low on the totem pole of Warmane's concerns, and would be a waste of time and resources to set up some sort of kangaroo court to determine who is at fault and what punishments there are (it can be argued that every member of that raid has equal rights to the raid ID and whatever they wish to do with it).

I presume you mean that a character from your previous, uncompleted, raid is inviting someone else that hadn't participated in that raid in order to save them to the Raid ID for the week, and then that stranger is bringing an entire set of stranger folk to clear out the remaining content of the raid.

You might have a chance at getting a ninja-ban action happening if you were to somehow record evidence at start of raid stating that all loot items were reserved for members of [GUILD NAME], and all 25 folk agreeing to these terms by the onset of the raid save ID. Then providing evidence of someone having looted items to members outside of that guild (I can't see this bit as being functionally plausible unless you've got a real douche-canoe guildmember recording his or her own misdeeds).

Apart from that highly improbable case, I'd say it's just a matter of "tough luck" and be careful who you trust.