Why is it that users can file a report up to seven days after the offense has taken place?
It doesn't make sense to me that the time period is that long. It should be reduced to 48 hours at the most.
The only thing that seven days allows someone is the chance to dig into the game records and see if they can get them banned.
Shorter reporting periods will allow users enough time to report offenses but also help to reduce report spam when people find each and every violation a person has committed in the last week.
The reason, though, that we can't just say "Only people in this game can report for violations" is because if there was a game full of friends, they can't break rules and get away with it.
By reducing the time to 48 hours or less, it leaves just enough time to report the violations and also keep out the report trolls who just want to try to get people banned and overuse the system.
Player A decides to look through Player B's games to find any evidence against them which warrants a violation.
What this rule does is extinguish spiteful antics such as this.
Whilst I understand your concern, Kerry, in the case of runners - runners' games get investigated anyway, and as such, this type of behaviour can be appraised by a moderator rather than someone doing it out of spite. Further to the point, it is near enough impossible to fill a ranked game with only your friends, and even in such cases where a table is full of friends, it is far less likely that they are collectively sacrificing the game at the cost of one person in particular, so it therefore becomes an even playing field.
I apologise if I'm not being coherent enough, but I don't really want to sit here all day arguing about it and discuss it on Skype simultaneously.
"i don't care that a game was thrown which unfairly affected my round score because i have no intention of winning and i just wanna play mafia"
*end of round* *behind 2000 points in 2nd place by ~40 points*
"i care about my round score, and i'd have a fair footing if that game that was thrown was refunded, but i can't do anything about it because it was more than 2 days ago"
if you're aware someone has broken a rule as a moderator and don't opt to punish that behavior you're just encouraging people to get away with breaking rules in ranked games, most likely with friends
All this change will do is stop people from filing bogus reports about things they actually dont care about at the time, which is a good thing IMO
deletedover 8 years
I think the rules are fine the way they are, but that user was obviously just going through dozens of old games to get harod banned, so I wasn't going to encourage that behaviour at the risk of being overturned. The OT was completely understandable and I support a 7 day statute of limitations.
Its just pathetic to dig through games to find refunds in general nor was the report system made for that purpose. If you feel like someone broke a rule, just report them directly. It takes less than a minute if you really care.
If you sincerely spend your time reading random games to find rulebreakers you should problably think about what choices you made in your life that got you to this point.
deletedover 8 years
personally when i report ppl for breaking rules that werent in my game, i aint spite/grudge reporting. im just tryna purge the site of all the notorious rule breakers
the thing is, in a competitive scene, every game loosely impacts the whole round itself. for example, we just reset this round because some players were given an unfair advantage
GRSing in this game may not have impacted too heavily anyone else in the round, but if another runner was to get an advantage by any of the town losing there, there is somebody elses time/enjoyment being impacted because they wanted to win a trophy.
anyways, to your later point on why somebody externally should be able to report the situation is because people just want things to be fair. people go grudging around on reports because they feel something was unfair usually. shortening this time length to 48 hours is going to even more people off, because thats a reasonably short time period where people will actually find the games but now be unable to report
i really don't see what is wrong with leaving the time period at 7 days. a users enjoyment is going to be impacted negatively by finding out other users are getting away with vios in conclusion
edit: im going to bypass, is pi$$ seriously censored?? lol
deletedover 8 years
yes they will, they will rotate with their less try hard alt
If people are looking to point farm, they're normally looking to do it in unison. You won't have people GRSing from games to ruin their accounts at the cost of amending their friends' pie charts. You're coming up with a hypothetical situation that has no sincere validity.
