An Approach to "Harassment"

I don't exactly disagree with Sticky Bandit for making those, either.

 

I mean yeah, a lot of them were just Sticky being petty but, he is bringing attention to certain things that needed to be said and have yet to be addressed in an open, discreet manner.

 

yeah but imo the way he did it didn't help his case at all, it prolly turned him into a meme

 

Regardless, I respect him for reporting the whole lead admin team, something that is LONG overdue if you ask me. If I tried to do that, I'd be banned LMAO

 

If there are any issues with the administration then by all means report them, but to do it in the same way that sticky did or by just spam reporting is just doing a disservice to the community, there were better ways to address it and get a better outcome

 

You would be banned because you are crazy Hongo, none of us have forgotten lol. This is a voluntary server forum website, not an infringement on human rights.

 

Actually its a video game forum, and staff have protocol to follow. Putting words in other peoples mouths and then banning them for it is not in the protocol, and if it is, I want it discreetly announced for everyone to see.

 

I'm tired of all the reports. I want a discussion, where all the staff talk about whats going on, why theres been so many reports (Even besides stickys little tirade) against the staff team, what they're doing wrong, and how it can be fixed, and who needs to go.

 

You might wanna reread my verdict on the report against slaps. It was only valid against Ethen.

Anyways I agree that punishing harassment outside of regular protocol should be saved either for severe cases or repeat offenders. When I handled the report against slaps, the amount of harassment I saw would have gotten him a warning at most if it happened while I was on the server, and I didn't change anything about that just because it was a forum report.

I know a lot of people don't want to be told to man up when they get harassed, but we're getting to the point where some players are basically weaponizing reports. If you try hard enough you can find something that can be called harassment from anyone, and we shouldn't be enabling petty harassment reports. There's a reason harassment is left up to the discretion of the staff member handlng it, and to be honest if people are going to use harassment protocol as a way to find something to report for instead of a way to keep people from bothering them then staff absolutely should stop punishing for minor offenses of harassment.

 

How do you define 'repeat offenders' though? Like, if someone is banned on an excessive punishment outside of regular protocol, would they be considered an offender?

We have rules for a reason, my dude. You shouldn't NEED to 'try hard enough' to find anything, you should refer to the rulebook instead of making them up on the fly and then banning people based on your own biases. From what I've seen in the past month, the rule book has been essentially thrown out the window and Admins+ have been making their own conclusions up.

You guys seriously need to have a discreet dialogue with the community about this, instead of making us spam the report page with reports regarding the piddliest little shits. Half of the harassment reports aren't even legitimate, they're being used by loopholers to get people banned because you guys (Staff) are enabling them the power to do this.

 

While I agree with you, discreetly announced is not what you want. Lol, same Hongo as always good to see you again you crazy mfer

 

People need to have some balls and also remember that this is just a gaming community.

These harassment reports are fucking petty.

P.S. if I get warned for this comment pls kys.

 

did you just say kys? I am very offended by that.

I'm going to report you now

 

100 fucking percent. And staff need to stop enabling them to do this

 

I mean, the fact of the matter is that the people who do report for 'harassment' are in fact toxic players themselves. Go ahead, you're staff, go look at their ban history. These are guys who DO use slurs in game, RDM, et cetera. Why is it then that staff are punishing the reported people with zero leniency, while enabling and actually playing into the hand of toxic players who are loopholing the rules and using you to get people banned?

I need you (The staff team) to address this discreetly so we can all see your thoughts, because if we're being punished and banned for multiple weeks for some phantom rule that makes no sense, then we have the right to know

 

Some people are victims of two idiots having a feud

 

https://www.seriousgmod.com/threads/report-against-pacifist.55742/

Instead of saying "this is silly" and closing it. Tell the person to cut it the fuck out. Seriously this shit is just annoying. Give them a warning point. By just saying "this is silly" we are allowing people to make stupid reports just to have them closed and marked invalid because they know they won't suffer any consequences or punishments.