Why is it that users can file a report up to seven days after the offense has taken place?
It doesn't make sense to me that the time period is that long. It should be reduced to 48 hours at the most.
The only thing that seven days allows someone is the chance to dig into the game records and see if they can get them banned.
Shorter reporting periods will allow users enough time to report offenses but also help to reduce report spam when people find each and every violation a person has committed in the last week.
The reason, though, that we can't just say "Only people in this game can report for violations" is because if there was a game full of friends, they can't break rules and get away with it.
By reducing the time to 48 hours or less, it leaves just enough time to report the violations and also keep out the report trolls who just want to try to get people banned and overuse the system.
but 1 more thing. if u play with friends and your friends are always grs'ing for you. that's gonna give u an unfair illegitimate high win rate, and possibly put u on the hof win% unfairly.
i dont see how thats fair
Ultimately, it's like this.
The people who are present on the table are essentially trading their time for enjoyment. Reports occur when they feel like they are not getting a fair trade, and that somebody in particular has caused them to feel as such.
In this respect, if somebody at the table commits a GRS and nobody reports it, why should somebody external of the situation feel that it is within their power to determine whether or not the offence was worthy of a violation? Yes, they might have broken a rule, and yes rules should be enforced, but ultimately this is a mafia website and people come here to have fun. If people are still able to have fun, and no one is offended or upset, or feel like their time has been disregarded, then sometimes it's best to just let bygones-be-bygones and get on with your day.
" people come here to have fun" lol. not everyone comes here to have fun, speak for urself
I was going to make a thread about people who report other people's games even though they weren't in the game themselves. Personally, I think it's petty and spiteful, and I am definitely looking to discourage that type of behaviour. I advocate for less strict policing, and less spiteful behaviour in general.
I think reducing it to a 24-48 hour limit is actually a good option to resolve those kinds of issues. I'll have a think on it.
plz show me a report where someone who wasnt in the game got another user a trolling vio for something u think was "lightly trolling"
Sometimes I'm busy and it actually takes me a long time to remember to think about whether or not I want to appeal a report or something like that. I appealed for a refund 6 days after the original report was closed and got the refund. I had to spend some time thinking about it too. I don't think it's bad, if the deadline is shorter, people would just do what you're saying they'd do in the OP..... faster.