"Cold has listened to your attempts at being the game police with "politics and religion in the chat" reports" — Thank you for clarifying the perspective on my reports. It's helpful to understand this, rather than just being shouted down in my post without explanation. It seems the issue isn't whether the content violates rules, but rather the act of reporting itself.
It's really simple for me; I largely play on the weekends and strive to keep this community, much like a favorite bar, clean of troublemakers, especially when there isn't a steady admin presence. I like to use chat a lot, as a social outlet, and it has become a bigger part of my gameplay. A lot of us want to escape the news cycle and politics when we play, and for the past three years my reports fit within the rules and only recently started drawing ire for no apparent reason.
One begins to think things like, did I simply report Coldkiller's friend? Plausible because someone I don't know, immediately taunted me in chat stating that my reports no longer get answered (when it just started) alluding to side conversations with Cold about me.
Or maybe this is politics? As it so happens the rightwingers make the most frequent political comments, and it would be incidental that it would mean I would report them more often. But who's to say :/
The way
@SrOrgasmus states it, is that I should view all times Cold has punished from my report as some sort of favor to me personally - but no, expecting consistent application of the rules isn't 'special treatment'; it's a fundamental expectation for any community with stated guidelines.
But who knows this could just be an adjustment period for the admins that stuck around, let me know how I can proceed.
"(your gunner shot a millisecond before you got killed), doesn't mean that you are being targeted." LOL let's suppose the pilot, not me, was trying to hit the sniper. You can see on the map exactly what was happening. Confusion from being snipped. Why is the sniper there? I will tell you, to deliberately position themselves to eliminate newly spawning players and their gunners. You only highlight the uneven treatment of my reports.
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Since you are obsessed with my reports to go hunt them down, here's more!
Code:
https://banzore.com/forums/threads/complaint-from-gamophyte-about-player-vadr-wumperfruit-vadr-dr_throx-vadr-gramaphyle.20799/
Oct 25, 2024 — A player took on various names of my clanmates and other regulars to harass and disrupt. Report unanswered.
Code:
https://banzore.com/forums/threads/complaint-from-gamophyte-about-player-jenosidejoe.20827/
Nov 2, 2024 — I saw this player being disruptive and noticed they were ban evading when I did the typical searching I always do from my time as an USSA Admin (it takes literally seconds) - but the report unanswered.
Code:
https://banzore.com/forums/threads/complaint-from-gamophyte-about-player-akdav47.21569/#post-140713
Feb 28, 2025 — My report on this player resulted in me being reprimanded without explanation or action taken. Curiously, just days after my report, this user's chat logs were selectively wiped from all BZ servers for reasons unknown. This was my first exposure to something new happening at BZ; that merely being racist isn't an issue; one must use a filtered or egregious racial slur, effectively, the N-word, for action to be taken. Example they can use "yellow" or "black african american" as (or adjacent to) the pejorative and it's okay. I disagree with this interpretation of what constitutes racism, but I have noted the rule.
Code:
https://banzore.com/forums/threads/complaint-from-gamophyte-about-player-friendlychud.21664/#post-141215
Mar 7, 2025 — I encountered this player again months later and highlighted their persistent disruptive behavior, believing admins would also appreciate knowing about the ban evade as well. Instead, I received a seemingly incoherent and disproportionate response, including comments like:
- "The attempts discovered, by the way, have nothing to do with the information you submitted." OK.
- "As for the racism aspect of your report, there is nothing I find worthy of taking action for."
Oh yeah that's right, it has to be a filtered word.
- "Knock it off with the witch hunting bullshit as well."
This comment was completely unfounded, implying I had conducted extensive research or possessed an insatiable desire to get someone banned, when simply noticing ban evasion takes seconds.
- "It'd be in your best interest to just move forward with this, be civil with everyone, and let us handle the player as we see fit."
Again what was this even addressing on my end? You can see my reply of genuine confusion.
Code:
https://banzore.com/forums/threads/complaint-from-gamophyte-about-player-friendly_gnaw.21663/
March 19, 2025 A report concerning a racist post was ignored.
Code:
https://banzore.com/forums/threads/complaint-from-gamophyte-about-player-tank_repair_guy.21683/
March 23, 2025 A report on a player stoking reactions to world politics was ignored.