Is it our duty to report people? Should it?

[sindroms]

I've been wanting to post this thread for a while now, but I figured out it wasn't my place to suggest something like this, given my history on our server. But I would like if we could just set that particular topic aside for a moment.


How many times have you seen someone, low ranked or not, breaking the server rules? And how many times have you reported them? Even more so, how many times have you tried to PM the guy and help them?

I see it all the time. On my lawfuls, on my unlawfuls and on my freelancers. People doing stupid things. Just yesterday on my Rogue (Before getting my face pounded in by Hastings on his Libby *fistshake*) I met three people over the course of twenty minutes. Some rank 38 camara tried to shoot me without a word. Was going to tell him something, but a Ptrain rolled up, carrying Helium 3, so I ignored that camara. Too bad, since the Ptrain F1ned. No biggy, suddenly a rank 75 BW Trans with human organs comes along, calls me a N, jumps to NY.

Since that sort of rage does not happen too often, I decided to report his ass, but when wondering if I should have submit a report on that camara, I was all...cba. He was a newbie anyway.




Was that a good thing to do? Because in a few weeks that guy would probably get a cruiser or larger, depending on how much he trades or mines.

But seriously, we can talk all about how the server's level of gameplay is slowly decreasing because of the influx of new players. The problem, obviously, are not the players themselves, but rather the fact that they are not educated. Forum visits are not mandatory, nor they should be imho, but if you have tried talking to those people you'd probably know that "If you are not an admin you have no reason to tell me what I'm doing is wrong.". Heck, it was something I used to think when I first joined disco and had people PM me about things like that.


Question is, should we start focusing on these people? Just actively cleaning up the server so to speak. Some time ago, Jax joined up with a pirate group, invisible on his admin ship, and ended up bastilling 7 people over the course of two hours. It is that bad.

End question is pretty much obvious. Should we focus on sanctionlancing for a month or so, just to weed out the server. Will be a rather horrible month for anyone processing sanction reports, but perhaps it might be worth it, if we want to keep the ingame more or less sane.



EDIT:

Something that a friend of mine brought up is that they have a feeling that the reporting system is way too ''feedbackless''. If you submit a report it and it does not get processed, there's a smaller chance you will submit one again. Not to mention having to talk with the player already is a risky buisiness, because people could misinterpret you trying to help them and end up being sanctioned for posing as an admin.

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