Sanction Reviews

[Enkidu]

 
Good afternoon,

I would like to propose that the Administrators facilitate some kind of appeal system for sanctions. I firmly believe that the current methods are flawed.

As an example, I used to work with an anti-cheat community for another on-line game and we had a very, very simply rule of thumb: 100% or they're innocent. We had to prove absolutely convincingly that the player had cheated and we had to submit our evidence to the community, otherwise nobody would have paid a blind bit of attention to our decisions.

Here, many sanctions are being made and the threads closed when the accused has tried to put forward their defence. That is not my idea of a fair trial. If the accused has reasonable grounds to issue an appeal, it ought be heard.

Some sanctions are being enacted with minimal evidence, although there may be instances where additional server-side evidence supports decisions. Well, I'm afraid to say that this evidence really should be disclosed if used to uphold a complaint. If it cannot be disclosed then the decision cannot be valid.

I do understand that some things cannot be disclosed by the Administrators. Going back to the anti-cheat community I worked for, we actually used a tool to detect cheating which itself could be used to cheat on-line. As such, we could not under any circumstance publicly discuss that tool. In any case, the manner in which we put forward our evidence was sufficient in its integrity and depth, in so much that the common members trusted the outcomes. That is what we need here: trust.

To conclude; I am urging the Administrators to have a good, long think about how reports are approached, how decisions are finalised, how they are delivered to the community and, further, how the community itself can provide feedback on the results.

Thank you for understanding my concerns.

It's a well-thought-out, good idea, but the more open you make things, the greater the risk of TBF from my point of view; people (me included), sometimes can't help themselves when it comes to taking sides on sanction issues.

Why else do people browse the sanction report threads?

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