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On 9/29/2023 at 9:12 AM, blabberbeak said:

 

The fact that overtaking is not prohibited by a traffic sign does not relieve the overtaking person from his obligation to ensure that no road traffic user is endangered or impeded during the entire overtaking maneuver.

 

I could imagine that the country you live in has a law which contains one or more of the following.

 

In general, overtaking is not permitted if the traffic situation is unclear or if overtaking is prohibited by a traffic sign.

 

The person who wants to overtake must behave in such a way that following traffic is not endangered or impeded.

The overtaking person must drive at a significant higher speed than the person he intends to overtake.

The overtaking person must keep a sufficient side distance to other road traffic users.

The overtaking person must get back into the right-hand lane as soon as possible.

The overtaking person must not endanger or impede the person being overtaken.

 

Failing to comply with the above fufills the offense of inappropriate overtaking and reckless driving.

And in the scenario I described, which of these standards would make it illegal?

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6 hours ago, Be4rdy said:

wait declined reports dont return that available report slot back?

 

well thats me screwed since i can only do 3.  guess ill just stop reporting folks

If the declined report is rated negative then you will lose that report slot, yes. It's the purpose of having a rating system.

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15 hours ago, blabberbeak said:

 

Inappropriate overtaking is a violation of national traffic laws, which players are required to follow according to "§2 Game only rules":

 

"Traffic laws and road signage must be obeyed. This means European road laws and signage must be followed in ETS2 and American road laws and signage must be followed in ATS."

And what law would they be breaking if they are overtaking in an area where overtaking is allowed? Are you not allowed to overtake multiple cars in your country? I have never heard of such a thing.

[Fed up with trolls]

There is an automated system now that prevents ban evasion. I am sure it is not 100% accurate, as no automated system is perfect. But ban evaders definitely are not that big of a problem anymore.

 

Permanent bans are still issued to users with an extreme ban history.

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13 hours ago, Be4rdy said:

You know fine well what i mean by powertrip, youve got certain mods out there who like abusing their power because they can for the slightest mistake, banning people because their friends with the person who reported, So yea id like to know who it was that banned me

 

another thing that i have never got was the appeals process, You should not be appealing to the person who banned you to unban you that is never going to happen ever, So either let us know who it was or change the appeals process where it is dealt with by somebody else who can agree or disagree.

Tbh i dont care these days im avoiding going on tmp its just no fun anymore, nothing is ever done about the folk who are out to cause trouble but  dont dare call them a name because that report becomes null and void, 

Banning people because they are friends with the one who reported?

 

What does it matter who reported? If the violation is banable then a ban should be issued. Doesn't matter who reported it.

If the violation is not banable and a ban has been issued then either the moderator will correct their mistake in the appeal, or the moderator will be told off for their mistake.

If there is clear evidence that the moderator purely abused their power to issue an invalid ban, they will be removed from the team depending on the severity, I assume. I am not a manager so I don't know what internal standards/procedures they have.

 

Most cases of "power abuse" I see seems to be people not agreeing that a certain action is banable even though it is.

That is not the moderator "abusing" their power. That is you disagreeing with management's moderation policy.

 

Appealing to the moderator who banned you is because the moderator that issued the ban can explain his reasoning the best. Plus, they are the ones that should add the evidence during the appeal if they haven't already.

 

 

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On 9/1/2023 at 7:08 PM, MartinV90 said:

The only thing I do question, sometimes is the inappropriate overtaking, I have seen people who have overtaken 10+ trucks get no action, but surly that is classed as inappropriate overtaking and driving the wrong way for that amount of time? I personally feel you should only be allowed to overtake two trucks.

We take into consideration if it was a heavily populated area (25+ players) and if there was any real danger caused.

 

In some situations this means it's technically fine to overtake multiple people. If there is nobody else around then you should be able to.

[Harsher bans for car users]

People are just going to stop using the car, but keep their reckless behaviour in a truck.

 

Then what?

[Give Admins Options for a "Police Truck"]

We've been wanting this for a while just because it's a fun perk.

 

Even if they intend to add it, the priority is going to be very low I assume as there are more important things to work on rather than a police truck.

 

Fingers crossed.

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12 hours ago, Foobrother said:

Yes on paper, you're right. And I can see that now the web-report system is at "Normal". But I'm still waiting to see any improvement on the road.

I've been playing regularly on CD during peak times (with 3000-3500 players connected) over the last week to see if GMs are more present and if my in-game reports are processed.

While I've seen a bit more GMs playing, I've not seen more active moderation going on and my in-game reports are still timing out.

 

Also, to continue with the logical thinking, if we have more moderation (in-game) that means we would have more people punished and banned? At the end of the day, the offenses remain the same as if they were reported on the web system?

So that should translate to:

More in-game moderation (kick & bans) + new, more performant, system preventing ban evading = less total connected players compared to before September (when the latest update was deployed)

Unfortunately when I'm looking at the public stats I'm not seeing any decline in number of connected players since the update announcement on 1st of September:

Maybe because there are more new players than in the previous months which would compensate the banned players (who, by definition, should be less connected)?

Or simply because we are still not processing more offenses than before the update

 

Or another reason I've not foreseen?! 

The amount of new players probably compensate for it.

 

TMP ID: 5200000 is from 2 September.
TMP ID: 5219635 is from a few minutes ago as of writing this.

 

19635 new players in 20 days.

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Just now, L-DragO* said:

Naa..

 

Just giving out my point of view

My thoughts

I love thinking out loud

That's fair. But I think letting the community decide on moderators is just going to become a popularity contest.

 

Btw, are you even aware that punishments are not anonymous internally? If you submit a feedback ticket they can still see who messed up.

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47 minutes ago, L-DragO* said:

@Mavi~ and @StateCA [NL]

You guys get promoted behind the system..

 

But.. your promotion should come from our ratings we the players Community...

 

That's how a good system is supposed to be .......

or at least a bit of contribution from players / community....

Nepotism.

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24 minutes ago, L-DragO* said:

I have been answering those simple questions..

 

But u've been ignorant to acknowledge them ...

 

 

 

You know what I give up.

 

You're correct. I am a cowboy and I can do whatever I want. I could ban you right now and if you submit a feedback ticket there is nothing management can do because I am anonymous! Haha!

 

Let me log in on C-D and ban everyone on sight now since I am anonymous anyway, right?

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30 minutes ago, L-DragO* said:

Please don't quote me wrong ..

I never said u should unban trolls in the game ....

Yes .. people make mistakes..

But not trolls.. they ram drivers intentionally

Stop using that as a mind game..

Doesn't work on me 

Only if I don't want to talk about it ..

 

Every moderator have their first sentence mind game....

 

Don't be sorry it's freedom of speech (democracy) 

Because you are a moderator you no it all

Me As a driver or player without any post I no nothing 

 

You Moderators always feels y'all knows all.. and your say is final...

 

And where did I spread misinformation?

 

If what am saying it's getting you angry ...

Deal with your feelings....

Fact or no fact 

Am saying my piece

I own the game and I play the game ..

 

Why is it not my right to know the moderator that got me banned...??

What is TMP up to? That as players we don't have rights ?? Only moderators.

 

Am giving an argument for sure..

And it's getting into your feelings

 

Anonymous encourages abuse...

Because...we can't talk about you 

About un-necessary ban

Getting a player ban ... by wrong id

Ban ..using the rules as an excuse..

 

Maybe you can't do whatever you want ...

But, you sure do silly mistakes with the power of a mod..

 

Yes ..Management don't find out till you get reported..

 

And not all reports get you scolded

That's why you guys brag about ..using the word....  "you can creat a ticket..but it will be waste of time.. because it won't change anything..... 

 

 

 

Internally we do know which moderator has issued the ban.

 

Why exactly do you need to know? How does it prevent abuse if you know? Why does it prevent you from contacting management to report abuse?

At what exact stage in the feedback process is it necessary for you personally to know the name of the moderator that issued a ban incorrectly?

 

Why are you unable to answer these simple questions?

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1 hour ago, L-DragO* said:

First of all am not in anyway been dramatic..

 

But if I am .. so are you ..

 

Soo u have the right to ban us anonymously but we don't have the right to no who u are ...

 

That information is very important to us..

So we no the kind of moderator you are ..

 

"If the vast majority?"

 

if you say vast majority abuse the information only to  harras moderators ... then you guys are doing everything wrong ...

Talking about abusive system..

Same as you moderators you abuse your power...

And it's a live simulation.. where you drive with different characteristic of people..

Same in the real word..

But in simulation you are untouchable just 

Exchange of bad words

 

You can't excape abuse...

That's what makes us human ...

 

 

Yeah fair, it's perhaps not the vast majority. But it's not a small minority either.

Getting harassed is not a rarity, it was almost a weekly guarantee depending on how much work you do.

To "victim blame" us for claiming we don't do our work properly and deserve the harassment is ridiculous. I should start unbanning the trolls that intentionally ram people on C-D because I got harassed? Clearly the ban must have been wrong, you are correct. Excellent logic.

 

I am sorry to be this frank and perhaps rude. But you have no idea what you're on about and it is extremely frustrating to read. You're genuinly spreading misinformation and acting as if you're spitting facts.

 

It's not your right to know who banned you. And if you think it is, then why can't you give an argument of why it should be your right?

How does making us anonymous encourage abuse in any way?

 

I seriously don't get it. Do players really think we are cowboys that can do whatever we want? That there aren't strict internal rules and procedures to prevent abuse? I honestly would not even know of a way where I could abuse my power without management finding out about it.

 

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1 hour ago, L-DragO* said:

Same here bro...

I totally was not in support of hidden a Moderators name ...

They have to take responsibility....

Good or Bad ....

 

But..TMP hard to give them more powers.

 

And drivers like u and I..

Mean nothing...

U don't have right to say anything

U don't have right to complain

 

    " Do not talk about ban here or there"

 

The time we complained about them..

To a certain extent...it made some of them rethink there harsh ban ..

When it was not really necessary..

 

Then TMP decided to hide there names..

 

We who play are also not humans ..

We don't get treathten by other players

Only moderators... 

 

U made them moderators

U gave them power

Then u hide there names..

Who does that...

 

How do you want them to take correction?

 

We should creat a report / ticket or whatever its called...

Naaaa....

 

"We make up the community"

Not just TMP dev alone

 

The real word police don't hide there face or identity...

Even with there guns ..

When they are wrong people tell them in their face ...

 

#ShowTheirNames

They should scrap out web report...

Let they be only in-game report...

 

TMP has turned from gaming to report system

 

Scrap it out ..yes I said it

And am chilling why saying it

Stop being so dramatic. I really do not get the point.

 

Why should the person who got banned have to know who issued the ban? What do they gain from that information? Why do you care to know? If the vast majority only abuse this information to harass the moderator, then why would you ever insist in good faith to keep such an abusive system in place?

 

What did you lose from this change other than the pure privilege of knowing who was the moderator?

 

Please explain, because I am lost.

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On 9/19/2023 at 11:39 PM, Be4rdy said:

and now mods can have their powertrip and not worry about being found out by the user

Define "powertrip". And why should the user have to know?

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On 9/15/2023 at 10:00 AM, CLUSTERTRUCK said:

The moderation team are to blame for this culture, they created it, not the clients...
I hope that explains my point for the dumb dumbs..
 

 

Anyways

 

You've said this already. Again, I invite you to bring something a little bit more constructive rather than just pointing fingers without reason and then exclaim you do not want to argue with idiots and get mad that we do not "fix" things.

 

Your comments/insults are not feedback. They don't help whatsoever.

 

How did we create this culture?

What needs fixing?
How do you propose we fix it?

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46 minutes ago, CLUSTERTRUCK said:

I was taught never to argue with an idiot, so i won't...

Not much of an argument anyway when you are just throwing random insults at people

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Just now, CLUSTERTRUCK said:

 

Why am i not surprised...
... If you don't understand the problem how do you expect to fix it

> Walks into forum
> This toxic behaviour is due to your own GM Team!
> Refuses to elaborate

 

"Why don't they understand the problem and fix it?"

 

10/10 my guy, keep it up!

10 hours ago, ZachSkinner02 said:

while they're at they should bring down the ban term from 3 months to at least 1, because its just way too ******* excessive within a few weeks any bad blood between players is already gone and by then the ban is just completely pointless, especially if it was for a small mistake (see my most recent ban for just how power hungry some of these mods are in-game) another suggestion: if banned you should the very least still be able to play on the arcade server (which has no rules)

Please make your ban history public and show the world how "power hungry" we have been with your bans.

I am sure people will agree when they see the videos.

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11 hours ago, Foobrother said:

He/she wrote "this toxic culture that your moderation team has let develop"

"toxic culture" = reckless driving and racing which is becoming more and more the norm in TMP. And, as a result, does generate more and more reports

 

And the 3 phases I described are showing how/why it happened. And why he/she says this blog announcement & changes are felt more like a "blame" to people reporting rather than something to really stop this "toxic culture".

I disagree that's what he is refering to with toxic culture. But no point in discussing it with you anyway because neither of us knows what he truly means.

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22 hours ago, Foobrother said:

First, I think he/she meant the moderation rules/strategy and not the team itself.

But it's fairly simple to understand:

- Phase 1: we had more new bad players during COVID for many various reasons

- Phase 2: TMP became less attractive, and it has been decided to reduce the punishments, cancel the existing permanent bans, increase the speed limits on EU SIM2 & Promods and organise more racing events

- Phase 3: this new blog message whining there are too many reports. And announcing TMP is making it harder for people to report with bigger limitations (number of reports and age of offenses) and new reporting ban rules (which are harder than bans to prevent you playing)

But none of this has anything to do with the toxic side of the web reporting system.

 

So I am not sure what he meant with it. Sounds like he just wants to trash talk the team for whatever reason and can't be bothered giving anything constructive.

 

 

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20 hours ago, CLUSTERTRUCK said:

Sounds like your trying to blame us for this toxic culture that your moderation team has let develop

How exactly? I don't understand this statement.

[Rename server names from "Simulation" to "Arcade"]

What specifically has changed about Simulation 1 that requires it to be renamed to arcade after all these years?

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9 hours ago, Foobrother said:

You didn't understand what I said. I said the opposite: more racing profiles now than to 2 years ago (kept on growing over time)

Yeah. I assumed when you were talking about more simulation oriented people playing that you meant TruckersMP, not singleplayer.

 

If you believe people on TruckersMP are more casual and not that interested in simulation, then why are you against these changes?

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19 hours ago, Foobrother said:

I would say that it actually goes in my favour! If there are more and more videos like that and they are more and more popular (more than the pure simulation ones), it means that players in majority are interested/attracted by the chaos/offenses of C-D and find them fun (as I explained earlier).

How exactly is it in your favour when your entire argument has been that changing to 150 is stupid as it attracts more reports, and is not in line with the community because there are more simulation profiles now than 2 years ago?