Problem with that theory.
If you allow bonus balling, you get fist fights, nastier rants and the refs, and all that happy horse dung you talked about. And why? Because the players HAVE NO RECOURSE to pursue!
If a man steals my wallet, I have a legal avenue I can go through to punish the man who stole my wallet. I tell a cop, the cop investigates, and if I'm right I get my wallet back and the man goes to jail. It's not MY JOB to sent the man to jail.
So what gives me the right to exact justice on a paintball field? If a man steals my wallet I do not have the right to beat him to a bloody pulp and kill him. What gives me the right to pass judgement on another player who may or may not be innocent?
Give the players a recourse, and it will stop. GIVE THE PLAYERS some reason to believe that the referees will step in and DO SOMETHING on their behalf, or that they can lobby the refs to do something, and it will stop.
Paintball is a case where the inmates run the asylum. Isn't it time for the authorities in paintball actually DO something, and earn the authority they've been given? While they're at it, they can enforce the rules in the rulebook too, and show that they've got teeth. I wouldn't mind seeing a ref crew that ENFORCED the rules to their fullest extent...
-Tyger
