shorter chat spam bans

Make it a mute for 1 minute. Doesn't make sense to ban for spamming unless it happens more than once.

thinking we get a gradually elevating mute that turns into tempban then 24-hr day ban
each offense accounts for a day of constant rapid spamming

For example:
Offense 1 - 1 minute mute
Offense 2 - 2 minute mute
Offense 3 - 5 minute mute
Offense 4 - 10 minute mute
Offense 5 - 1 hr mute
Offense 6 - 24 hr mute
Offense 7 - 10 hr ban
Offense 8 - 24 hr ban

@Vacon#3356 I think this should be up to the discretion of the online admins. Automating administration too far can also be dangerous.

It depends on what you believe is chat spam, lets say for example; Saying the same thing 6 times, usually I hand out warnings asking not to do it again, in the case they continue - I start to punish with mutes that don't last very long (Usually TFM unmutes them later on

@Vacon#3356 that’s wayyy too lenient

Currentlly, the automated bans go like this:
Kick 1 - 5 minutes
Kick 2 - 10 minutes
Kick 3+ - 24 hours ("$name has been banned.", which isn't exactly clear as to the duration)
...with the kick counter only resetting, as far as I'm aware, when the server restarts.

On its current hardware, the server regularly lags badly enough that players can plausibly type 9 messages within 20 ticks, which triggers the autokick, with no intent to spam, and "regularly" here means it's also plausible that it could happen 3 times in 20 minutes. The fact that it issues 24-hour bans for this, well ... isn't great, and definitely means it should—at the very least—be disabled when there's more than one admin currently online.

(reminder to myself to avoid taking 30 minutes polishing unimportant details again)

I definitely agree that this should be shortened. The server lags too much and bans people like I said on my SERIOUS ban appeal.

I've approved a version of this.

The approved version is:

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When someone is spamming chat, the server should now mute them for 2mins rather than kick them.

I'd also like it if possible to double the time muted every time it happens within the server rebooting.

FS-97 raised with that as the description.