I'm curious. Let's say 4 people get inside a t room and someone reports that person on forums, a staff member checks logs and it shows that he shot first and killed everyone, which could be seen as blatant rdm. He gets banned, he doesent get a say because he doesent have a forum account,2 days later he comes back and notices the 5 day ban, makes an appeal and forgets that scenario and his appeal gets denied. Questions How can this be avoided? Does the reporter receive punishment? Do staff get to see if he got reported on that round? Has this happened before?
1. By remembering the scenario. Also, if he doesn't remember the scenario we can ask the one who reported him in the first place on what happened. And, if it was said that they were in the T room he wouldn't have been banned in the first place. 2. No, they look less credible, but they might have been just wrong thinking it was RDM. 3. We can't see past reports. 4. I don't recall something like this happening to any ban appeals I dealt with as a moderator, but it could have happened before.
The only instance I remember anything like this happening was in this report http://www.seriousttt.com/threads/report-against-herr-fuchs-mr-fluffeh.16382/ It can easily be avoided if most people either make a forum account or people should know all the rules and realize being in the T room is a traitorous act. And like Blake said we can't see reports on last maps. Once map changes we lose all the current reports. All that we are able to do is go check the old logs and see what happened, and that alone would look like mass rdm.
