Now I see it! Not a bad idea and thanks for suggesting something that stays on topic and is relevant to my suggestion.
So what you're saying is basically people will abuse the system by reporting people for very 'minor' things. Be it because of personal attacks, trolling, unaware of the standards set by 000s, or just because of pure ignorance. In doing so this will slowly build up a list of reports filed up against someone.
To answer this is very simple because I had a very similar problem over at the Don’t Starve steam forum. I made a note of the players who were reporting things I believed were for minor things. I looked into the reasons why they were reporting it. Most of the time it said things like "trolling us", "spamming" or "swearing". I looked at the actual post to see how severe or minor the offence was for myself. In this cases I saw many reports where the person reporting players was indeed abusing the system. As I am not an official member of Klei and I too need to abide by their rules, I passed on the names to Klei support staff. I presume they resolved the situation as the same people abusing the system never did again. It's been a good few months now. They weren't banned (I would know if they were) they must have been made more aware of the sort of things Klei regards as being a blatant attempt at rule breaking. Now the perk of this system is clear. As all reports are listed in one separate sub forum. I could easily see every detail I needed to make the call. It's all arranged in a way that things such as names, reasons, threads, exact post are all easy to access for future reference. In essence it becomes a library of reports.
I separated the two things you rose. One is initiated by both player and resolved by a GM/CM (above), the other only involves the warning being initiated and resolved by a GM/CM (will explain now).
You raise a valid point of how the warning points a player gets, shouldn't remain, and every so often (5 months) a warning point or all warning points should be removed. Well this can also be easily explained because again I have experience in it. Warning points are only given to those players who 000s and 000s alone deem to have severely broken the rules. For example a personal attack on a member of 000s staff. The severity of the situation is only determined by 000s. In which case they add a warning point to their name. Now if someone knew that after 5 months a warning point gets knocked off and they know that after 3 warnings they get a temp ban, it's obvious they will play the system. The only way to agree to having points deducted or removed after a period of time to ensure players don't pretend to act good to get points removed then misbehave again once the points are removed, we set the number of warning points lower, before you get a ban and increase the period of time before a warning point gets deducted or reset.
I hope I cleared that up.
Not needed the forum community is way to small for all the extra effort. If you find players breaking rules on the forums just send the GM's a support ticket, and I am sure they will look into it.
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