Is Something Being Done About the False Flaggers of These Forums?

[Rhaumiel-proudmoore]

I have noticed that many players on these forums will report any opposing view to their own, and false flag another players opinion to have them silenced on these forums. This is similar to how players are falsely reporting players in game to have them silenced as well. Is there any repercussions to falsely reporting another player?

People who report other users that are not breaking the TOS should have to face some kind of ramifications. These forums are meant to give players “in all walks of life” the ability to voice their own opinion to help further the topics of discussion (as long as it isn’t break TOS), it isn’t made for a certain group of people to gang up on others and try to have them silenced to create their own echo chamber every time a view point conflicts with their own. These types of players should not be able to abuse the report feature and get away with it.

Update My post has now been falsely flagged 4 times, hidden and then restored since it’s creation. I hope this OP helps highlight that there is indeed a dark side of this forum where people are abusing the report feature for their own personal gain. I wanted to say thank you to the GM for reviewing my post and restoring it to not allow these false flaggers to get away with it again. Let this be an example that this is very common on these forums (and also in game) and should be addressed. Thank you.

[Foxsc-lightnings-blade (Foxsc)]

Let me strap in for this one

[Briselody-lightnings-blade (Briselody)]

There’s lots of things that can be reported. For example, your thread violates the CoC:

Discussing Disciplinary Actions

This category includes:

• Creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a player, including chat logs and email correspondence between a player and a Game Master (GM)
• Creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a character or account on the forums

If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:

• Be given a temporary ban from the forums, depending upon severity

so it could be flagged as “Inappropriate” and that would be a perfectly valid flag.

I’m not going to, but just sayin’

[Rhaumiel-proudmoore]

@Briselody-lightnings-blade

There’s lots of things that can be reported. For example, your thread violates the CoC:

Discussing Disciplinary Actions

This category includes:

• Creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a player, including chat logs and email correspondence between a player and a Game Master (GM)
• Creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a character or account on the forums

If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:

• Be given a temporary ban from the forums, depending upon severity

so it could be flagged as “Inappropriate” and that would be a perfectly valid flag.

I’m not going to, but just sayin’

Oh so I can’t use my own example as part of my own post. I gotchya, I also didn’t use any chat logs or emails between me or a GM. But thanks for not false flagging me.

[Briselody-lightnings-blade (Briselody)]

@Rhaumiel-proudmoore

Oh so I can’t use my own example as part of my own post.

That’s pretty much verbatim what the CoC says, yes.

@Rhaumiel-proudmoore

But thanks for not false flagging me.

It wouldn’t be a false flag. That’s the whole point?

[Rhaumiel-proudmoore]

@Briselody-lightnings-blade

It wouldn’t be a false flag. That’s the whole point?

Thanks for trying to derail the conversation. Got anything else to add or are you just going to keep bringing up TOS?

[Nate-senjin (Nate)]

I looked through your history, and it looks like you like you made what you considered a “funny joke” on the thread that was happy about trans representation in the game.

You’re leaving out pertinent information, OP.

The report feature has this category:
“It’s Trolling
This post is inflammatory, extraneous or upsetting.”

Why do I feel as if a reasonable person could find your “music lyric” on the trans rights thread to fall into that category?

[Briselody-lightnings-blade (Briselody)]

@Rhaumiel-proudmoore

Got anything else to add or are you just going to keep bringing up TOS?

But you brought it up first?

@Rhaumiel-proudmoore

People who report other users that are not breaking the TOS

[Rhaumiel-proudmoore]

@Nate-senjin

I looked through your history, and it looks like you like you made what you considered a “funny joke” on the thread that was happy about trans representation in the game.

You’re leaving out pertinent information, OP.

The report feature has this category:
“ It’s Trolling
This post is inflammatory, extraneous or upsetting.”

Why do I feel as if a reasonable person could find your “music lyric” on the trans rights thread to fall into that category?

Can we stop using me as an example please, this post has nothing to do with it. It has to do with false flaggers, unless you both are trying to defend the system for some reason. Hmmm, I wonder what that could be.

[Oshuni-aerie-peak]

@Rhaumiel-proudmoore

Thanks for trying to derail the conversation. Got anything else to add or are you just going to keep bringing up TOS?

Didn’t you just try to shut down an opposing view?

[Mokrawr-area-52 (Mokrawr)]

@Rhaumiel-proudmoore

just going to keep bringing up TOS?

Isn’t that what your whole post is about?

You claim “false flagging” but making an offensive joke and being flagged as a troll is exactly the opposite of false flagging.

[Rhaumiel-proudmoore]

@Mokrawr-area-52

You claim “false flagging” but making an offensive joke and being flagged as a troll is exactly the opposite of false flagging.

Where are you getting this offensive joke from?

[Shirt-wyrmrest-accord (Shirt)]

If your post isn’t against CoC, it will be unflagged, just as many of my posts in a particular thread you’ve been flagged in was unflagged.

Maybe stop posting offensive stuff and people won’t need to flag it?

[Annastasi-proudmoore]

@Rhaumiel-proudmoore

Got anything else to add or are you just going to keep bringing up TOS?

makes a post complaining about people not followng the ToS
rolls eyes at guy talking about the ToS

okaayy…then…

[Nate-senjin (Nate)]

@Rhaumiel-proudmoore

Can we stop using me as an example please, this post has nothing to do with it.

So clearly you made an edit to your original post. I can see in fact that you did make an edit.

@Rhaumiel-proudmoore

Where are you getting this offensive joke from?

Your original post incorporated you as an example for posting a “song lyric.” You said you were completely innocent.

Stop trying to change your story.

[Rhaumiel-proudmoore]

This is exactly the example I was talking about, instead of adding to the conversation, they try to bring up my post history as their example of why this system is good. I bet they are going to try to silence me again lol.

[Oshuni-aerie-peak]

@Rhaumiel-proudmoore

Can we stop using me as an example please

If you can’t set an example, why would you expect others to follow your post and use other peoples’ words as examples?

Lead by example dude, and maybe everyone’ll take you seriously. In every thread.

[Briselody-lightnings-blade (Briselody)]

@Rhaumiel-proudmoore

I bet they are going to try to silence me again lol.

I think you might have a bit of a victim complex there, bud.

[Caelus-proudmoore (Caelus)]

No punishments are served if the post is found to be not breaking TOS, though.

[Rhaumiel-proudmoore]

@Caelus-proudmoore

No punishments are served if the post is found to be not breaking TOS, though.

That is not true, if you are silenced for being falsely reported, it can take days in order to get a GM to review it and then determine if it was breaking TOS or not. So in the mean time, you are being punished for something you didn’t do.