The suggestion is that when you speak in GC a timer starts and after an hour it expires and then you are silenced from GC for 5 hours.

So a new player would in effect only be able to ask a question once every five hours?

No! They could ask questions for a whole hour and then go to work and ask another hour's worth of questions after work. Most people don't sit in GC all day.

Can you tell me the second worse one - so I can see what I'm up against?

However, I will explain my viewpoint in a bit more detail.

You propose a universal limit on how long people can talk when there is a perfectly adequate solution already in place.

For those who are somehow unaware of it, in Illyriad there is a block function. If you add someone to your block list, you will not be able to see them in chat. They then cannot harass you unless they start IGMing you, at which point it sounds like something to raise with the devs.

In addition to this, I dispute the idea that chat is 'dominated' by anyone. There are significant dead periods in chat pretty regularly these days. If people really feel the need to talk when others aren't around, there is plenty of time to do so.

You have claimed to have talked to 'lots of people' about this, but a few anecdotal accounts of the worst thing in illy isn't really enough to go off. If you want to lend weight to your claims, stick a poll up. 

Not mentioned here are the numerous potential side effects and the reasons why this idea would likely not be successful in its aim. If you'd like to know more about these, send me an IGM and we can arrange a private chat. 

The personalities in GC can get strong and potent at times but it makes it Illy.  I have had plenty of time to observe GC and know that the personalities are not always repugnant because the vile ones do take a break and the kind ones do get to come out and play from time to time.  You have to remember that you don't know what goes on in peoples real lives that make them act the way they do in GC.  I think GC was better when we had Moderators that could cut the bullying and boasting when it got out of hand.  Filing petitions against players is time consuming and you don't always get responses in a timely fashion.  It think we should just bring back moderators.  They make GC more fun because they keep the BS to a minimum.

I vote to bring back Moderators to be honest.  Let them make the decision as to how long to silence someone if things get too nasty.  Stop letting the computer do all the work.  A Human touch is always better.

Of course I would have been out of tokens in no time ...

I don't necessarily support limiting talk in gc (you can always block people who annoy you), but if it were considered I would suggest the above method.