Wow... I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy playing on this server for a long time to come with an admin that is so receptive to the players' feedback... thanks a lot.
By the way, I just macroed provoke overnight on two sheep. I made sure skills were marked down, and provoke was marked up. I didn't get any gains, and I'm only at 72 real skill. I don't know if it would be a good idea to make provoke that easy to GM though. Just FYI.