Label spam is especially bad, because newbies don't know how to remove labels. I imagine it's rather discouraging to have a bunch of derogatory labels on your base for the whole game.

A partial solution would be to make labels disappear after a while, for example one minute.

When thinking about spam please also consider small games. In FFA and 1v1 permanent labels can be pretty helpful. (Note down units, mark buildings)

If you only implement it for clusterfuck(>4v4) that sounds perfectly reasonable.

I also encourage you to remove your markers when they're no longer of importance. That's what I try to do most of the time as to not overload people with labels.

Chesti why not warn and eventually mute these offenders instead of complaining about them on the forums? Don't tell me they're free to break three rules without getting any penalties while other people get one for not breaking any rule.

Probably depends on the kind of warning. Keep in mind I didn't watch the replay. All the information I got was from reading through this thread, so I'm not really in a position to give advice on precisely what action to take.

Things that might be worth taking into account are who started, concent on what exactly was written, the amount of markers/drawing done, whether any person removed their clutter, whether any person (eventually) tried to help the player and cooperate in any meaningful way, etc.

Just keep in mind the goal is to get players to change their behavior. They should be helpful to new players more than anything. Chances are role models and encouragement help. If people have trouble recognizing that they are harmful, remind everyone that a certain action might not be helpful in solving a newbie's errors.

quote: A partial solution would be to make labels disappear after a while, for example one minute.

Please please please don't (or at least make it configurable).
I tend to miss labels and find after a few minutes (or the end of the game in the worse cases) that someone asked for a Thunderbird or some other unit.

A few times it was still relevant when I saw it and affected the game.

quote: cure the reason not the action. So removing bad boys would solve the problem

lel

Another option:
Any experienced player should spend ~10s every ~5m to remove outdated/useless markers. In a 8v8 there should be more than enough APM leftover for that, especially when everybody has time to spam silly markers.

The reduction of disruptive noise for all teammates should consequently increase win chance by 10% and thus boost elo by 70.

Doesn't take admin rights to clean up markers, be helpful in chat and set a good example.

quote: the fun of being an admin

hahaha