Quote:Ask yourself the following questions - If your answers to these might be a little sketchy, odds are your report will be too: 1) Am I filing a relatively petty report because I’m currently angry?
If you’re a little hot under the collar, the Sandwich Rule* always helps to keep yourself from looking silly. Just step back for half an hour, then come back and decide whether or not it’s worth pursuing. 2) Do I really have enough evidence to make this stick?
Sanctions won’t go through unless sufficient evidence is provided of the report. You were there for the entire incident, yep, but the administration was not. All we have to go by is what you give us. Is that enough? 3) Is what this person did really worth removing all his credits and guns?
That’s the standard punishment for server offenses. Is what the suspect did serious enough to warrant this sort of punishment? 4) Is this person clearly just a new player who doesn’t know better yet?
You should know by now that while most of the rules are common-sense, we’ve got a lot of ‘em. Go ahead, swap tabs to that list you’ve got open. There’s a lot of them, and to new players that can be daunting, or perhaps they haven’t even seen the forums yet. If you suspect someone of being a new player, unless the violation is serious, you’re better off pointing them in the right direction than slapping them with a violation. Remember, we were all in their shoes at one point.
Consequences:
You are generating a lot of Violation Reports, sometimes 2 a day. Please note this:
Quote:Remember, each member is only permitted to file one rule violation report per day. Any more than that and your additional reports will not be considered. This is done to prevent malicious reporting or multiple reports of extremely trivial behavior. Just go out, play the game, and have some fun.
We feel, as soon as you see anything, that you jump straight to the Violation Reports and post. Please read the Rules Violation Report Guidelines, carefully, and think carefully before you send any more Reports in the future.
If you require evidence, you may request such via PM from a Staff member. Only the accused or an official faction leader of the accused person's faction may request such. Once you have the evidence, and if you wish to dispute it, you may post in the Sanction Thread below. Do not continue PM'ing a staff member, as that will result in your Appeal being denied. If you PM a staff or post in the sanction thread and you are not directly involved, you are consenting to be subjected to the reprisal of my choice which may involve in game repercussions up to a ban. Blaming members of your immediate family, neighbors, friends, pets, and assorted Orcs, Trolls and any other legendary creatures may result in the use of Admin Right #CTE 750AE
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