@Sunny said in How To Treat Your Players Right:
How do you do that if the complaint is anonymous, man?
@faraday said in How To Treat Your Players Right:
@Tinuviel From whom? If the reports are anonymous, who are you going to ask?
Have neither of you ever used a job system before? It's an anonymous job, not a shout into the void.
@faraday said in How To Treat Your Players Right:
I can't even imagine how you would respond to "Bob is being creepy" in a constructive fashion without logs or details.
You... ask for more information.
@Sunny said in How To Treat Your Players Right:
but what it boils down to is that anon complaints are disappearing into the ether; if the person is anything but very publicly banned, complaints become meaningless because there's no conversation, no way to get further information, no explanation, no dialogue, no nothing
Not necessarily, but your overarching point is still good.
The only real way to unequivocally "prove" that an interaction occurred is to log everything server-side and have someone go through it all. Then that becomes a freedom vs security debate, which is older than time.
@deadculture said in How To Treat Your Players Right:
Also, the log itself should count as proof that said behavior happened
Unfortunately editing logs is exceedingly simple. It can count as evidence, sure, but not proof.
@Runescryer said in How To Treat Your Players Right:
The anonymous reporting sounds like a good idea, but imagine what it would turn into in the hands of a toxic player. Think of how it could augment the whisper campaigns of Persons Who Shall Not Be Named, But We All Know Who We're Talking About.
I would rather err on the side of making things easier for complainants. It would still be up to staff to investigate the accusations.
I would advocate for some ability to allow people to put in complaints of this nature anonymously, and staff with the wherewithal to act on anonymous complaints to the fullest extent possible.
@Tempest said in NPC Roster:
Staff has to read all the logs? Idk!
I would say that instead of reading logs, there should be a list of NPC reports stored somewhere. Staff that use the NPC (or player storytellers too, depending on where you want the plot-generation focus to be) write a brief little report of the scene they just had with the important tidbits included.
"Had scene with Fabian Valentine regarding political appointments, Fabian was a dick to NPC-Prince." etc etc.