[Anarchaos]

A quick glance at the "bans" section of the forum shows between 5-10 new ban requests a day.

These are something that admins/mods are expected to deal with relatively quickly by finding out a situation in-game and weighing the pros/cons, the situation, the context etc.

There are a few players who overuse and abuse this system by making numerous, futile and ultimately time-wasting ban requests for people who they dont like personally or have some petty squabble.

There is also a great deal of people posting in ban requests where they have no direct information or involvement, which is by itself a bannable offense.

Maybe a cap on the amounts of ban requests each player submits in a given amount of time would be in order to save admins/mods time and hassle?

I'm not referring to successful ban requests, but ones where a mod/admin has denied a ban. Should there not be a limit on the amount of failed ban requests per month? say 3 or something?

[Sianara]

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Maybe a cap on the amounts of ban requests each player submits in a given amount of time would be in order to save admins/mods time and hassle?

I'm not referring to successful ban requests, but ones where a mod/admin has denied a ban. Should there not be a limit on the amount of failed ban requests per month? say 3 or something?

Just a stupid question from my side: Before posting a ban request, how would you - as the one posting the request - know that this ban request will be denied? If you don't post it, there is no chance of finding out. And most of the ban requests I have read seemed to be at least some kind of reasonable.

[Anarchaos]

Hypothetical scenario:

Players A and B playing at the same time.

Player A: I like Pepsi!

Player B: I like Coke!

Player A: I hate you player B, and I am trying to get you banned!!!

later...

Player B does something that player A doesn't like.

Player A: What you just did is harrasment/griefing/racism/hacking! I'm posting a ban request!!!!


I mean there's obvious cases where someone is hacking, flying/duping/x-raying etc. Then there are cases where you just do something that someone else does like and they try to get you banned for the biggest of longshot/irrelevant reasons.

[mitchie151]

This completely irrational, not liking coke, or Pepsi, in your example, is not reasonable grounds for a ban request. Constant disrespect of other players however, is.

The players that post the ban requests, often know what the other player has done wrong, and THAT is the reason that players can post ban requests in the first place...

Additionally, this thread seems like its entirely made to help out YOUR case, because you, at the moment, are one of those people with a ban request on your name.

[CirJohn]

This idea might have had some merit if it weren't coming from a currently-banned habitual troll.

Good luck with that appeal; you'll need it after spending a few hours annoying the Luelle and Shamps the other night.

Edit: Actually, bad luck. Be nice to see this Kress-clone die early in his trolling career.

[hippoface]

This idea might have had some merit if it weren't coming from a currently-banned habitual troll.

Good luck with that appeal; you'll need it after spending a few hours annoying the Luelle and Shamps the other night.

Edit: Actually, bad luck. Be nice to see this Kress-clone die early in his trolling career.

Kress was better than that.

Anyway, I agree with everyone else.

[lizardsrock4]

This completely irrational, not liking coke, or Pepsi, in your example, is not reasonable grounds for a ban request. Constant disrespect of other players however, is.

The players that post the ban requests, often know what the other player has done wrong, and THAT is the reason that players can post ban requests in the first place...

Additionally, this thread seems like its entirely made to help out YOUR case, because you, at the moment, are one of those people with a ban request on your name.

QFT

[Anarchaos]

You can hate me all you like, but the idea still stands as perfectly reasonable.

[TechnoProdigy]

You can hate me all you like, but the idea still stands as perfectly reasonable.

Maybe to you it seems reasonable and perfect, but to the general player base (Myself included) this idea is completely moronic.

[Anarchaos]

but to the general player base (Myself included) this idea is completely moronic.

You're saying this purely because I hurt your feelings once, because you don't like me, and because you love to act like a mini-mod.