Revision as of 09:14, 26 September 2012

How To Write A Report

Source

Report Format

Step 0: Create a thread in the Mafia Player Reports section of the forum (Use this link). You will have to be signed in as a user on the forum or your report will be ignored.

Step 1: Set the thread prefix to whichever crime you are reporting the user of.

Step 2: Make the thread subject according to the following template:

Offender Username: #-S2-1-#######

Exsample:

JoeGreen: 1-S2-1-1234567

Step 3: Paste the following into the body of the thread and then fill in the form:

[b]Account Name:[/b] 
[b]Account ID:[/b] 
[b]In-Game Name:[/b] 

[b]Crimes Committed:[/b] 

[b]Your Account Name:[/b] 
[b]Summary:[/b] 

Example:

[b]Account Name:[/b] JoeGreen
[b]Account ID:[/b] 1-S2-1-1234567
[b]In-Game Name:[/b] Pelvic Thrust

[b]Crimes Committed:[/b] Game-Throwing

[b]Your Account Name:[/b] DarkRevenant
[b]Summary:[/b] At the beginning of the game, he repeatedly posted the names of all of the Mafia,
then left. The Mafia were then lynched on the following two games.
Clearly, this is a cut-and-dry case of game-throwing.

Step 4: (IMPORTANT!) Attach a replay of the game in which this player committed the crime(s). StarCraft II automatically saves replays, so if you forgot to create a named replay in-game, you can still find it. Unsaved replays can be found in

Windows
\Documents\StarCraft II\Accounts\#######\#-S2-1-#######\Replays\Unsaved\Multiplayer

Mac:
\Users\Library\Application Support\Blizzard\Starcraft II\Accounts\######\#-S2-#-#######\Replays\Unsaved\Multiplayer\
Note to users of Mac OS X 10.7 and above:
The library folder is hidden in Finder by default, to un-hide it open the terminal and copy
and paste in "chflags nohidden ~/Library/" without the quote marksand press enter.

Make sure to view from a player's perspective in order to see the game in a replay.

Step 5: (Optional) I highly recommend that you attach screenshots (especially with stuff circled, and other annotations) of the crime occurring.

Step 6: Post the report and wait for a moderator response.

Crimes

These are general guidelines. There are some rare, unlisted crimes that are given punishments based on severity.

General crimes sorted by severity:

Trolling

Trolling is acting like an idiot for the pursuit of hilarity, or otherwise screwing with people in a manner that does not ruin the game.

Example:

• "RED IS ALWAYS EVIL!"

Severity: None (Yep, that's right, nothing will happen to regular trolls.)

Role-Quitting

This one is obvious. This is for all those people who ruin games and setups by leaving just after seeing their role card.

Example:

• "DOCTOR? Fuck this, I'm out."

Severity: Low (Role ragequitters are bad people. But don't bother reporting them.)

Griefing

Griefing is similar to trolling, but actually results in the game being ruined. This is trolling taken too far.

Example:

• Person is not actually sheriff, red is actually not mafia. "I AM SHERIFF, RED IS MAFIA"

Severity: Medium

Cheating

Cheating is using methods unintended by the game (such as abusing Skype, lag screen, or forcing players to read their role cards) to gain an unfair advantage over other players.

Example:

• "my brother was the GF, and he says Deantwo is SK."

Severity: High

Game-Throwing

This is intentionally playing to lose. An example of this is a Mafioso giving out the names of his fellow Mafia to the town during his trial.

Example:

• "You got me. Boss is Godfather and Deantwo is Janitor, kill them next."

Severity: High

Abuse

Abuse is abusing donor or (more seriously) moderator abilities. This includes kicking people at random, cheating with the mod message system, etc.

Severity: Very High

Hacking

Hacking is obvious: getting moderator abilities, modifying bank files, mining players' roles, etc. are all examples of this.

Severity: Very High

Punishments

Watch List is a list on the website. For various reasons, people on the watchlist are no longer added to a list in-game, to save time and effort and focus on the real punishments: kick-vote and ban lists.

Watch List

Low or Medium Severity: Multiple reports

High Severity: A confirmed report

Very High Severity: A credible report

Click Here to visit the Forum for Watch-list Reports

Point Ban

A player will receive a point ban if he/she is found to have modified their bank file to gain points unfairly.

Duration in days is equal to the number of points gained unfairly.

Kick-Vote List

Medium Severity: A confirmed report and a criminal history

High Severity: Multiple confirmed reports or a criminal history

Very High Severity: By Administrator decision

Ban List

High Severity: Multiple confirmed reports and a criminal history

Very High Severity: By Administrator decision

Punished Players and Appeals

The punished players and appeals forum contains threads for approved Point Ban, Kick-Vote list and Ban-List reports.

This forum gives players the opportunity to appeal their sentence.

Click here to visit the Punished Players and Appeals Forum

Length of Punishments

Dropping from Ban List to KickVote List or from KickVote List to Watch List will result in a sentence equal to double the time spent in the previous punishment level (i.e. someone sentenced to 2 weeks in the KickVote List will then have 4 weeks in the Watch List after the first term is up.)