Minecraft Name: chessgeek10 Suggestion: Only tagged users are allowed to post on ban appeals/complaints (besides staff). Reason: After having 3 or 4 users post on my complaint, to make a total of 2 or more pages, they are really beginning to annoy me. I have seen so many people get away with posting on ban appeals/complaints, yet very few of them get punished. Even then, I have never seen a player be punished worse than a warning for repeated offences of this. Most posts are pointless anyway. It is the mods job to deliberate, isn't it? So I suggest that a player must be tagged first by either a moderator or the player reporting, to prevent situations like what was mentioned above from happening. I don't see how this could be an issue, because most of the time, the staff tags the user to find their side of the story anyway. And if someone else has useful evidence or information, they could just pm the moderator or player with it, to ask to be tagged. Any Other Information: All said above. Link To This Plugin: I don't even know if this is possible with XenForo. It is simply a suggestion.
-1 for 2 reasons: 1. Players are allowed to contribute relevant evidence, and this would prevent them doing so. Relevant evidence often times helps staff deal with the issue. While it could be pm'd to the staff member handling the situation, I think this would make the process slower than it needs to be. 2. After you accumulate a certain number of forum warnings within a certain timeframe (I think 3 or 4 a month), you're automatically tempbanned from the forum. So further punishment does happen, it just can't directly be seen.
I have never seen any actual evidence presented by someone else. Most likely it's an opinion, or saying he saw something happen, but without any proof at all. It will make the process slower in that 1 time out of 20, but it saves time for the staff to not have to deal with people who break rules. As for number two, I never knew that. To me, that seems a little light seeing how rarely people are warned, but that's not what I'm suggesting here.
While you may not see it, and it may be rare, it does happen. As for dealing with people who break rules, is that not the very jobs of staff? Enforce the rules? When people are warned it won't always be visible to you as the "Warning: Don't do the thing" banner at the top of the post. Warnings are issued when they need be, no more and no less.
Not sure if it's possible(just like the original suggestion) but what if it was set so anyone could post to a type of queue so it won't actually show up until a moderator approves the message to be added? That way things don't turn into a flame war and the mods can sift the troll posts out. If possible have a per thread permission system so the OP and mods and whoever the mods deem necessary have the ability to post... All other posts are need to be approved. Anyways, it's all really complicated and probably won't happen, so unfortunately I will have to -1 this one.
Honestly that sounds like the same system we have now, with the exception we can see posts before staff handle them. Staff still have to review each post, how would that be faster?
This would be a nice feature. It would cut down spammish replies and would prevent flaming. I personally would not like this because i want to post on a complaint right when i want to, and how i want to. Now, when i say that, i mean posting eveidence or saying that i am invowled in this in whatever way i am involved. Adding this feature would make it way too difficult. Say, I have evidence. I am a 'newer' player , and i don't quite understand what a 'Tag' is. Or, say i have evidence that would resolve something. But hey, ive gotta get online and request a tagging and wait and all of that crap. so... why bother? Or, I only have a phone right now. I cant get online, and i have forum pmed a mod. They wont answer, so i will pm another. They did answer so ill pm another. (by then you will have tons of mods with irrelevant tagging requests. -1 for me, too complicated. BUT, i would like it if you could mute certain people....
