I just tested "report to admin" feature and unfortunately it has 2 problems: it can only be reported to those with forum admin and it basically just sends me a PM with a quote which could be faked too so yeah :/
Ptole gave us a good idea which the one he is going to make report he will have to fill few informations which are the message from X, to Z in the Y date. By filling the staff will have search engine if the information are correct he will access the message.
Profile > Modify Profile > Personal Messaging > Receive personal messages from: > Buddies and Administrators only
The concept of this suggestion is to make Forum PMs punishable. Already staffs saying the same thing in any complaint related to this subject. Read the suggestion before replying please.
Provide SMF mod for sending PMs to non-administrative staff and suggest it after. Private Messaging speaks for itself, if it's PRIVATE no staff should have access to your messages and if you're getting annoyed by players, either ignore them or disable receiving messages from everyone. This suggestion is nothing but to add a useless, childish rule for people who seek to get others punished. Soon you'll request discord messages to be monitored by staff, grow up.
As you can see above, these uneducated players heavily attacked the X player by flaming his family, disrespecting him. But all you have do is to add him in ignore list, and the one that flammed mustn't be punished. Just he is free to do that, any logic on this?
we can avoid a lot of toxic player including one of your group's leader that was reported by Dogigos for flaming his whole family heavily.
you need to back off and watch the words, you mentioned to me twice which is unacceptable, you called me an uneducated and toxic player while you never know if the PM is real or not so just fucking grow up and stop mentioning me in your senseless posts because that won't give you more attention when you start mentioning me in every single post you write.I already said that I agree about having the possibility to report to admins so, just grow up and stop mentioning playersyou need to care about your groupmate because I'm that kind of crazy guy that can share to any curious staff his forum password and let him get into my account so your groupmate can get what he deserves for the pms he sent
As an option, a new complaint format could be created for such cases, where a complainant should be asked if he agrees to having his profile checked by a staff.In case the complained player denies breaking the rules, a staff would open complainant's account to verify the content of a personal message. Logically, one of the players will have to lie in such a case, so either complained players won't even deny anything (and then the account check is not necessary), or someone will get warned for lying. Knowing both sides might get punished, people won't risk it (except those who don't really care about punishments), so it seems like a win-win. Haven't really thought of any downsides though.
But I think my idea about adding search engine is perfect.
Or we might add format in complain board specifically for forum PMs
You would need access to the site's database, I assume only administrators have it. Giving it to other people is a security risk, so I guess that would only be possible if Arran himself dealt with all the complaints, which is obviously not possible. Arran can correct me if I'm wrong though, maybe there is a way to use the database in a better way.That is exactly what I meant. Doesn't have to be an administrator, any staff can be of use (I guess). Something like this:
This will cause a security risk, just remember what Precious did with his powers as GLM. I'm not saying that staff members aren't trusted enough to handle someone's account, but this is definitely not the best option. An ex-staff member gave his password to someone so that person could participate in scamming, etc. Just imagine what someone can do with all of the passwords... I know that you'll have to change it later, but there are always people that forget to do that. What do you think about a remote call using any program like google meet/Microsoft teams/Teamviewer? If you're interested in getting someone punished, then you'll do whatever it takes to do that. You can give perm to the staff member through those programs, he'll check your PMs and then, they'll decide about the case.