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Telling People Youve Reported Them

- Not against the rules

- Gets suspended for it many times

What's up with that?

September 7, 2012

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Pavchka

[quote=xDracius]Iunno, some biased mod might consider it trolling since it could piss them off.[/quote]

We don't have the freedom to be biased like that, we'd be found out in an instant. I hate bias more than anything else. We have lists of suspension degrees (which I wasn't allowed to publish here). We can't move outside of those lists unless we run into something that's not listed. In those cases we have to improvise. I hate improvising. I'm very much a "by the book" kind of person.

This case is on said lists. Saying you reported someone is useless as far as the thread topic is concerned and is flame bait- it only angers the person you supposedly reported and serves no other purpose. "Reported, enjoy your ban. Look at what I did, I made sure you won't be able to post for the time being, gna gna gna!" Even if you're not trying to say that, you're still coming across as such. We, that means the mod team plus MrBasil, established that. It's not something that comes out of the blue. A large number of "Reported!" comments stem from so-called spite-reports; reports someone submitted not because the uh... reportee broke a rule, but because the reporter dislikes the reportee. The reporter abuses the reports system to "remove" users from the forums! It's not rare at all.
Of course we don't immediately assume everybody who says "Reported!" is a spite-reporter, but nonetheless we don't allow users to say they reported someone.
It's curious that you didn't stop telling people they'd been reported after having been suspended for it "many times" (I don't know how much is many because your account is very new). Those suspensions were trying to give you a message.

If you have any other questions please contact a moderator. As far as I know all of us can be PMed (except MrBasil).

Reply September 7, 2012 - edited
xDracius

Iunno, some biased mod might consider it trolling since it could piss them off.

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