[Don Debienne]

Agree. Simon and Russell are on point here. The only way to change behaviour is to apply a penalty that results in changing behaviour. The only penalty that seems to work is the ban resulting from the protest form. Most of us are semi or fully addicted to this sport and SRS is a good platform for getting more competitive racing and quality than most public servers (not all the time however!). So taking that away for a time has an impact. The points restrictions or more complex points systems likely won't have as much effect as the ban. I have been taken out by drivers exercising terrible judgement who have point totals in the 700 range and incident rates below 2.0. On the other end of the spectrum some of the daily races have incident totals in Server 1 of 95- 100 (DTM's). That is an average of 4 per driver and a good number of those points represent some pretty bad racing.
I received one 7 day ban long ago for an unsafe rejoin and let me tell you, before I go back on track, I am looking at the track map, out my windows and making sure I am not going to mess up again. It works because no competitive person likes to be banned from their sport. So...put the protest forms in. Once you learn how to do it, it is pretty simple. If you are on the receiving end of the bad driving, well, suck it up, don't give up, keep racing and you may be surprised with some of the great racing you can have even in mid to back pack.