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.

Do you have inferiority complex when it comes to discussing things with me? I have only argued my side by saying you are wrong with clear reasons why. Have you done the same? No. Your main concern in this thread was why I left a shadow copy in the general discussion. I have since removed it. Would you like to tell me how this steam form of reporting won't work here or would you like to carry on teaching me the rules.

I have given arguments to every post you have made. You haven't once replied back with anything that would suggest I am wrong. Responding back emotionally and expressing personal opinion to argue my fact and experience is hardly valid. Until you can prove otherwise, as it stands I have proved everything you said wrong. Again only Rating and Perronius have discussed valid points why my suggestion won't work. Again I admit I cannot disagree with the points they raised.

Edit: I've said a few things, like the bumps in the Bazaar, the entire Gremlin Chatter

Nothing to do with my suggestion. You are only clearly making it obvious people are rule breaking, so how does this method of reporting make that worse? Defend your case logically not emotionally please. Maybe then we can meet on equal terms.

You want everyone to adhere to the rules to the point where you're apparently wanting to have a way to flag the threads. And many people who use the forums do those activities that are against the LETTER of the law. In addition, I've also stated that the Community Managers read EVERY thread. It's their job. You used personal opinion by saying 'prove it'.

Omg. Are you serious. You are the one disregarding everything that is said. This is all your opinion and your personal assumptions. You clearly have no idea how this would work if people acted responsibly, you clearly can't prove how my suggestion would fail without assuming what you think I want. Dude seriously just leave. Accept you lost and move on. Don't keep coming back here to pick up on little things I say. If you want to stay give me a VALID REASON not based on ASSUMPTIONS and PROVE my suggestion wont work here. If you can do that I'll hold my hands up to it like I did to Rating and Perronius.

Ok still repeating yourself.

Now please explain how my suggestion will make what you said worse.

Why troll? Either discuss what you don't like about this suggestion or leave. It's posts like that which proves my suggestion would be a nice addition to this forum. I can't keep emailing OOO, and I don't think many others want to. If other people share my opinion that you are indeed trolling and used this system to report you for deliberately trolling, OOO will have enough proof to suggest action be taken. If you don't have anything to say other than make a fool of yourself leave.

Thank you for suggesting something relevant to my suggestion. OOO has mentioned this to me via email. But the possibility of implementing something similar but simpler is not out of the question. Do you have any knowledge of Durpal that could help add something like this?

I've taken a look at Drupal, and have concluded that what you suggest is not possible for OOO on their current budget, especially since they lack a web designer.

You looked at Durpal so if OOO had a web designer would it be possible to implement this system, can Durpal support it? Regardless of budget. Yes or no?

And the part about Community Managers? What I'm saying is that though they eventually check each and every thread thoroughly, bunches pop up while they go nappy and when they wake up, there's lots more posts. But if you send a report, it won't reach them until they wake up either.

Not true. OOO has stated in their emails to me in the past, that there is always someone online to help you on any queries you may have. However in case of the rare event every member of OOO staff are all asleep at the same time every day, then as I have stated many times before the reports all get sent to a separate sub forum. OOO can access them at any time. Just as I do. I wake in the morning after an eight hour sleep. I log into steam. I see a few reports and resolve them. It doesn't matter if it's 1 hour or 24 hours late. Bottom line is something gets done.

Are you telling me you are aware of every ban or warning that every player gets? How do you know people aren't getting a warning right now? How do you know that although someone has sent a report ticket to OOO right now that person won't get warned or banned by tomorrow. You don't. So again we don't need to worry about what OOO has to eat in the morning for breakfast, or what they plan on doing after work on friday night.

Edit: that's the difference between me and most of you raging for no reason. I give an answer to all of you without insulting or belittling you. If I have responded rudely it was in response to an equally rude comment. If I can't prove it I discuss an alternative reason to the one I am suggesting. Obviously I can't prove if OOO watch every post of not. I can't prove they are always online or not. But what I have done is used my experience as a moderator to answer your question. You obviously don't have that, hence why automatically people become defensive and hate on me rather than suggest why my suggestion won't work.

Again I repeat only Rating and Perronius have suggested reasons why this wont work and I accepted those reasons. Fangel was unsure at first but asked very clear questions without being rude or targeting me, and has not left unsatisfied with the answers I gave. You say you looked into Durpal. So why mention shortage of staff and funding? Those are irrelevant. Because if they did have both would Durpal still be able to support the system or not?

Edit: anyone is free to help out Sandwich-Potato.

Thanks. So I think the main issue is that Durpal won't be able to support this. Plus with a lack of a web designer OOO are kind of messed up when it comes to creativity and knowledge on designing and implementing anything internet/web/forum based. So switching to an entirely new forum is definitely out the window at this point, seeing how much more this game needs in actual content, I wouldn't want something like this to take up their time now. I only ask OOO to take this suggestion very seriously, as I am sure they have, based on emails exchanged.

Valid point thanks again.

I don't think that would be appropriate. I respect what decision OOO makes either way. Basically though. One member of OOO feels that the forums are fine. Another told me this was a great idea but due to limitations of this forum it would be difficult to implement. But they did say adding a chat filter on this forum is possible. Most of my other emails were passed over to higher members in the OOO staff. Not sure I will get a response from them. But I made my feelings very clear and I used this thread to prove what I said to them. Regardless OOO are the moderators here and they know what's best.

Honestly thanks to everyone who posted here. I hope I at least made you guys aware of how important it is to take care in what you say. You don't need to belittle someone if you 100% disagree with what they say. Argue your side as best you can, but with respect.

AKD

Don't quote a man who stood up to fight for freedom and what was right. He wanted independence for his country, you want to be free to say what ever you want good or bad, polite or rude, friendly or insulting. That isn't right. I try my best to speak to people as polite and respectable as I can. But I'll argue my side as ruthlessly as any other person here if I know my heart is in the right place, for what is right.

We all make mistakes but we learn from them. You will find people can act however they want on the internet. But when you get out there in the real world.......I wish you the best of luck. You say you are forced to speak rudely to people because of what happened in the past, but have you heard a famous saying;

"two wrongs don't make a right"

You're a good kid. Don't let things that happen in the past effect you moving forward. It's not good for you or others.