- Staff
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Let me start off by saying, I am in no way attempting to directly slander, belittle or target anyone in particular with this post. However, I feel as though this is an issue we should be addressing within our community. This has been a problem for awhile now, allow me to elaborate further on the problem, why it’s a problem, and other important notes.
At this point, a large number of reports, action requests, and fuck it, even IA’s are simple cases of Tattling. The fact of the matter is, in certain cases that I am referring to, there would be no real benefit to the reporter if the offending user got punished. To some people, reports have just simply become a way for users to “win” situations they really lost in, especially in the last few years.
Now, I am in no way saying “stop making reports, you pussy snitch bitch kid” because in many scenarios, the report functions are used appropriately to ensure users are handled by staff for breaking rules and negatively affecting other users. It also at times keeps repeat offenders who are generally displaying a toxic disregard to the rules in pursuit of “winning at the game”.Reports are good. We have rules, and the report functions bring incentive to play by these rules.
However, a common issue we have had on the server for awhile now, as corny as it is to say, is with officers. More so, the mentality of an embarrassingly sizeable portion of officers. Let me explain the thought process of these officers:
- Officer see’s crime
- Officer remembers 3.4 states people must follow gunpoint
- Officer draws their firearm to gun point the suspect climbing the escalation of force ladder whilst skipping enough steps like i skipped questions in my GCSE maths exam.
From this point, 2 things happen:
- Officer technically exploits a 3.4 loophole which forces the player to comply out of fear of a ban
OR
- The situation doesn’t go to plan at all, and they make a report to get said person banned because getting someone banned takes effort, and putting effort into having another player miss out = a victory Apparently???
Sure, if someone breaks gunpoint and kills you whilst you are an officer, or they kill you for an invalid reason, that’s a fine report. Despite the fact that you lost nothing of material value, you lost up to 5 mins of your game time + 5 minutes NLR to a rule break, and by allowing it to go unpunished, the offending player could well develop a habit out of that attitude and it could spread to become a normal thing in the community. It’s gotten to a point however, where players are making action requests for the dumbest of reasons. You have to ask yourself “are they making this report for the better of the community, or are they doing it for personal gratification?”.
Its obviously not just cops making these petty reports though, of course not. Plenty of reports made on other players are incredibly petty too.
An example of this from personal experience was when I played around with a voice changer for a few months. Sure, I occasionally switched to an unrealistic voice, such as the vocoders, extreme pitch raisers, voice filters with background noise, and voices that made me sound like a robot, or machine, and Yes, people did complain when I did, which I complied with and stopped doing because yeah it’s understandable dude, my voice changer was quite clearly being misused and users weren’t happy about it. However, there’s been instances where I used realistic voice effects and still had staff contact me saying I’ve been reported for using a voice changer. When I used a “male to female” voice effect, I was reported for using an “unrealistic squeaker voice” when all the filter did was raise the voice by about 2 and a half tones and make it softer. I wasnt that mad since staff seemed the voice effect to be fine however. On another occasion where I wasn’t even using a voice changer, but doing a Mickey Mouse impression with my vocal talents and got reported for “micspamming”
On numerous other occasions, I did busking roleplay, where I set myself up either in front of PD, Hospital, or another street where people walk past, built an amp out of props and played guitar over backing tracks with my mic in front of it. People reported me for “micspamming music” when in reality, if they didn’t want to hear it, they could just walk straight past me, i wasn’t in any intrusive places people would have to stand around at all. Only on 1 occasion was I asked to stop however, which I didn’t, I just moved somewhere else.
Its getting to a point where valid creative roleplay is suffering as a result.
Tl;dr:
Certain reports are petty, yet still resulting in players getting punishments, in some cases, disproportionately. How would you propose we fix it, and what Other input can you give?
So, what do you think about the reports people are making nowadays?
At this point, a large number of reports, action requests, and fuck it, even IA’s are simple cases of Tattling. The fact of the matter is, in certain cases that I am referring to, there would be no real benefit to the reporter if the offending user got punished. To some people, reports have just simply become a way for users to “win” situations they really lost in, especially in the last few years.
Now, I am in no way saying “stop making reports, you pussy snitch bitch kid” because in many scenarios, the report functions are used appropriately to ensure users are handled by staff for breaking rules and negatively affecting other users. It also at times keeps repeat offenders who are generally displaying a toxic disregard to the rules in pursuit of “winning at the game”.Reports are good. We have rules, and the report functions bring incentive to play by these rules.
However, a common issue we have had on the server for awhile now, as corny as it is to say, is with officers. More so, the mentality of an embarrassingly sizeable portion of officers. Let me explain the thought process of these officers:
- Officer see’s crime
- Officer remembers 3.4 states people must follow gunpoint
- Officer draws their firearm to gun point the suspect climbing the escalation of force ladder whilst skipping enough steps like i skipped questions in my GCSE maths exam.
From this point, 2 things happen:
- Officer technically exploits a 3.4 loophole which forces the player to comply out of fear of a ban
OR
- The situation doesn’t go to plan at all, and they make a report to get said person banned because getting someone banned takes effort, and putting effort into having another player miss out = a victory Apparently???
Sure, if someone breaks gunpoint and kills you whilst you are an officer, or they kill you for an invalid reason, that’s a fine report. Despite the fact that you lost nothing of material value, you lost up to 5 mins of your game time + 5 minutes NLR to a rule break, and by allowing it to go unpunished, the offending player could well develop a habit out of that attitude and it could spread to become a normal thing in the community. It’s gotten to a point however, where players are making action requests for the dumbest of reasons. You have to ask yourself “are they making this report for the better of the community, or are they doing it for personal gratification?”.
Its obviously not just cops making these petty reports though, of course not. Plenty of reports made on other players are incredibly petty too.
An example of this from personal experience was when I played around with a voice changer for a few months. Sure, I occasionally switched to an unrealistic voice, such as the vocoders, extreme pitch raisers, voice filters with background noise, and voices that made me sound like a robot, or machine, and Yes, people did complain when I did, which I complied with and stopped doing because yeah it’s understandable dude, my voice changer was quite clearly being misused and users weren’t happy about it. However, there’s been instances where I used realistic voice effects and still had staff contact me saying I’ve been reported for using a voice changer. When I used a “male to female” voice effect, I was reported for using an “unrealistic squeaker voice” when all the filter did was raise the voice by about 2 and a half tones and make it softer. I wasnt that mad since staff seemed the voice effect to be fine however. On another occasion where I wasn’t even using a voice changer, but doing a Mickey Mouse impression with my vocal talents and got reported for “micspamming”
On numerous other occasions, I did busking roleplay, where I set myself up either in front of PD, Hospital, or another street where people walk past, built an amp out of props and played guitar over backing tracks with my mic in front of it. People reported me for “micspamming music” when in reality, if they didn’t want to hear it, they could just walk straight past me, i wasn’t in any intrusive places people would have to stand around at all. Only on 1 occasion was I asked to stop however, which I didn’t, I just moved somewhere else.
Its getting to a point where valid creative roleplay is suffering as a result.
Tl;dr:
Certain reports are petty, yet still resulting in players getting punishments, in some cases, disproportionately. How would you propose we fix it, and what Other input can you give?
So, what do you think about the reports people are making nowadays?