I´d would like to point out why I highly dissagree with the recent opinions:
I was a part of another big Forums in the past, and the reports there were handled by the Moderators and Moderators only.
As the game itself was built on popularity of two big YouTubers, whose general fanbase was on average 12 years olds, there were on usual around 30 reports per day. Thing with that was, that Moderators were unable to keep up with the amount of reports that popped up.
So I, as a regular user who was Moderator for an allied server, made a deal with the Moderation team. Since my server was very smallish and I was easily able to handle my forums on my own, I would venture to theirs and I´d post the summaries for Player Reports in comments for their reports. I did it in mutual respect to them, being the Staff, and it helped improve the efficiency of reports by a huge amount, because soon after, other people with intentions to show they are capable at these things (they used to have annual Moderator application elections) started posting on those as well, bringing in a huge amount of additional, re-structurized information.
Now I am not saying the same is happening here - the Staff here is far more competent then the previous server ever was at the time, but that doesnt neccesarily mean one thing:
I may have long experience reviewing reports, but naturally Mods will have better experience in this field then I do, because they actually handle them, day-to-day. But nobody is perfect and everyone can make a mistake. And mistakes like that do happen... in all the time I´ve been around Player Reports I remember at least a 10 times reviewing closed Reports and reporting them via the Report function because I noticed something didnt add up - and some of those reports actually got re-opened, too. Now I am not trying to blame Staff for not paying attention, they do... but nobody can be 100% of times correct. Some of those reports were not re-opened because I was too eager and missed another point that actually put all of the report to sense, so I ended up being wrong myself...
However, if there is a good enough comment that highlights all the important points in the Report, a mistake is much less likely to happen.
The server I talked about didnt end up keeping that system - they ran into similar problem, with people mini-modding all the time...
However, before events that followed (refer to my story on the Like-dislike system I talked about a week ago) I was actually able to suggest a different system - the two person system.
Two person systemBiggest issue with that server used to be that their punishment system was unfair. They didnt put any effort into investigating the reports. Because of that, there was incredible amount of people unfairly punished.
I would hate for this to happen here - and its already happening as we speak. Look at the Maddona incident - we all know at this point that Maddona set up most of the people who ended up getting reported, by aggravating them purposedly, then reporting them on Forums with skillfully removing all kind of evidence of Maddona´s involvement.
We can suspect this because majority of people who ended up being punished by Maddona came back and their stories all say the same thing.
A User not long ago approached me in PM, I will keep their identity hidden, but this is what they shared with me, after spending a number of time investigating the withnesses and all Maddona´s reports.
...I think you will agree with me if I wrote that Madonna is a deeply subversive troll. I will not and cannot defend anyone in the reports she has made but I would not be surprised if she purposefully baited most of them...
...She loves to attack other players very crudely and her play is borderline gamethrowing (like Bishop Edwards if you ever had the misfortune of playing with him). I find it incredibly hypocritical that she reports people for using the same language she often does...
...Her entire persona is a giant trap btw. Her in-game names often reflect this. She brings up controversial and inflammatory topics intentionally to troll other players in-game (like ranting on the stand she was being lynched for being transgender instead of simply not giving her role). I think she reports so many people because it lets her troll under the guise of not being a troll, but that trick is wearing itself out...
Those are just some of the points that were given to me, and I have to agree with them to the most point. Thing is, due to the system´s hole in it, Maddona was able to operate as a "Player Reporter" for too long.
The two person system basically means that at least two people
who know what they are doing review a report. Now it would be inconsiderable to ask Moderators to do this, be it two Moderators who scan a report before Shapesifter decides on it. Hence, having regular users do this can be of great benefit. If a regular person first notices something unusual, they can bring attention to this fact and Moderator will have less time on their hands, properly scanning the Report on their own.
This also brings another good point - I mean, being succesful at noticing these things shows that a certain player has a "Moderator potential" - naturally, there is more to it, but still, this is something that definitedly should be seen as a good plus.
So, having proffesional comments on Player Reports can have a great benefit. It doesnt really matter if they were added by Moderators or regular users, I mean, for as long as they are of use, why should people be restricted from making them? Sounds contraproductive to me...
Thats all that I have to say on this subject. If you have not changed your mind at this point, I dont think I can convince you, but I did my best.
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@KIllstory - now I dont consider your input on this matter to be of any worth at all.
The reason for that is that you have been telling people continuously over and over again to go play MafiaScum instead, because this game is "shit".
Yet, you are still here.
So, one would be allowed to consider whether maybe you are not saying these things on purpose to damage this community. I mean, whats your motivation to try and suggest "improvements" if you are so determined this game is such "shit" and people who still play it are clearly stupid?
If you like MafiaScum more, wouldnt you want MafiaScum to be better then Town of Salem?
Just trying to find logic here.