rulesneeded NEW REPORT-RULE: ONLY REPORTABLE WHEN INVOLVED

[Eliαs]

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Hi there,

my name is Elias and I'm playing TMP now for over 2 years. 

I'm one of the two Founders of the VTC "Thermo Liner Group".

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Long Story, short Text:

In the last time i saw many guys, who reported players, for example, ramming other players accidentally, but are not even involved or even took damage from it.

It's kinda ugly to do that and so I came to the idea: 
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What about making a rule, that says, that you can only report other players, when you are self involved or took damage?

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- Rule-Example to add in "§1.4" -

§1.4 - Reporting users

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• For reporting a user, YOURSELF need to be involved in a collision, took damage from the collision, had to avoid a collision or have been overtaken inappropriate. This rule does not count for reports with the reason "§2.1 - Hacking/Bug/Feature abusing", "§2.3 Blocking" and "2.6 - Inappropriate Convoy Management / Car Abuse".
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(Why should it be added?)
So what does this rule change and what are the positives and negatives aspects?
Basically, it makes guys that are not involved in a accident or had to avoid one, not able to report. Of course, this rules does not count for Game-Moderators of any kind.

Positive aspects:
 - Reduces the number of reports.
 - Reduces the number of "DC-Road-Report-Spammer" (Guys, that are driving up and down the DC-Road, only to make reports and spam the report-system.)
 - Relieves the Game- and Report-Manager-Team in the report-system.

 - Reduces the number of misunderstandings in reports.

 - Make it possible for involved players in a accident or collision, to "forgive" players, if they want to.
(If there are more positive aspects suggested, i'll add them).

Negativ aspects:

 - If the new rule get insert in the Service-Wide-Rules, many reports will get declined, till everybody has noticed the new rule, in the first time after the rules has been added. (But that is normally, when any kind of rule changed or has been added).

 

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What do you think about this rule-suggestion? Do you have any other good or bad aspects?
Please let me know!

Best regards, 
Elias
 

[James]

Hello there,

 

Thanks for taking the time to submit a suggestion.

 

After reviewing your suggestion, unfortunately, I will be rejecting it.

Of course, it would be a nice idea to reduce the reports, however that's not really a valid reason for this suggestion.

 

- If a user crashes into someone and that person isn't recording, then no action can be taken.

- Sometimes, GMs+ ask for additional evidence as it provides a better overview of the situation and occasionally different angles can show the context of the situation.

 

I hope you can understand the reason behind this suggestion being rejected.

Have a lovely rest of your Christmas and I hope to see you on the servers soon! 

 

Thanks for you understanding.

 

Kind regards,

JamesS014

TruckersMP Community Manager