So to go off what you're working with here, something like what you're proposing would have a somewhat significant risk for abuse. Another site I used to go to had a similar system for reporting abuse. Basically it was a three strike rule doubled over. It actually worked really well, especially since the strikes were anonymous. The way it worked was as so . . . User 1 posts or comments something objectionable. If three users striked it as such, user 1 gets a strike. Three strikes in a 24 hour period and they couldn't post anything for 48 hours. However, let's say user 2 strikes user 1 even though user 1 didn't post anything objectionable. If three other users unstrike user 1, user 2 gets a strike. Once again, if it happens three times in a 24 hour period, user 2 gets a time out. Even though the system was anonymous, it worked quite well and was fairly balance. I never saw it abused. At the same time, people were very careful how they spent their strikes, for fear of getting timed out themselves. As a result, it was pretty much never used during heated debates, only really when people posted NSFW content, personal info, etc. I could see something like this working well for spam.Spitballing.
I like it. One of my cousin's friends came up with a "genius" system for traffic enforcement - every licensed driver gets an official DOT paintball gun and three official DOT paintballs PER MONTH. Anybody who acts like an asshole in traffic gets shot with paintballs. Cops to pull over and ticket anyone with more than, say, five hits on their car. Aside from the fact that it encourages drivers to shoot at each other (among other dire problems), the limited quantity of paintballs would cause drivers to take their shots seriously (assuming the paintballs couldn't be easily counterfeited, at which point it starts to sound like the Joker's fever dream). So - limit your available strikes and have them replenished by the system in response to legit hits.
While I love the "tag the asshole system" probably best to do it electronically / metaphorically - the idea of giving drivers paintballs horrifies me. I went to a game once where several people were hospitalized when someone swapped his paintballs out for marbles.
I used to a lot! My friends out here aren't into it, I'd be game for playing again though. I mostly used to do scenarios, Oklahoma and Skirmish dday. Doesn't seem like a lot of that out here. But I would love to see a hello kitty themed Tippman, I didn't know that was on my bucket list until this moment. My last Tippman was a 98 custom :)