Anonymity on Ban Appeals and Mod Apps

[Rogue_ArtParticipant Karma: 16 pts]

I’ve been thinking about stuff like this. Let’s say your friend gets banned, he’s your best friend, you’d just spam his ban appeal to make him get unbanned.

Or let’s say your friend applied for mod, even though he’d be terrible as one, you’d just make people vote up and do stuff like that.

I have came up with an idea to either make the people who post on Mod applications and Ban Appeals to have a steve head and have a username of “Anonymous”, or do that with the person posting the ban appeal or mod application.

I think this idea will prevent most of the hackers/rule dis-obeyers and from people being bribed and threatened to vote up for mod.

[TheHighOreoParticipant Karma: 1 pt]

Actually, I don’t believe that will help much.
Let’s say that both friends were online in-game or on Skype or anything like that. The one who posts the topic will tell his friend: “Hey dude, check out my ban appeal/mod app, vote up for me! 😉 ” Since they are friends they could tell each other that THIS was their topic, so that won’t help. So doing that will just confuse people a little bit, but they will still understand it. Also, if one of these votes was like a threat in-game, we know it that they did (We have special pony powers! 😀 ) Also, whoever votes up for him, maybe (or surely), he will say a couple of lies like um… let’s take imagine, that bob69, was a horrible player. He had a friend, called bobsfriend69. bob69 made a mod app and asked bobsfriend69 to vote up for him. His friend will be like: “He is helpful, he knows all his commands, he bla bla bla. Vote up. :3” of course since bob69 was a horrible player, we will know that was a fake vote, and the mod app/ban appeal will get closed. It’s easy to realize that players like bob69 will be the only people to do that. The good players won’t need to ask for votes, they already know that people are going to vote up for them, so why ask?
I hope you understand, and if there was anything weird/makes no sense in my reply, well excuse me, I am high. :3
EDIT: Of course, I am high, just as always. :/
I have forgotten to mention that we will know who is the player who makes the mod app/ban appeals since he includes his in-game name anyway. So, let’s simply say that there is no way for the one who posts it to be unknown. xD

• This reply was modified 10 years, 7 months ago by  TheHighOreo.

[FieryAnubisParticipant]

It wouldn’t stop anything due to the fact of them just pointing out which mod app is theirs.
Also how are we suppose to vote on how efficient, active, helpful they are if we dont know who it is?
And honestly, alotta the bias doesn’t matter anyway, cos the mod team gets a second opinion when someones accepted. And we wont let bias overrule our judgement.
And on ban appeals, the first ban isnt really based on the votes.
The second is more severe and votes are overlooked depending how bad it is.

[Xavier3479Participant]

I don’t really think this will do much good.. hows this supposed to stop biased votes? Also, it really dosent matter how much bias there is since there is always a second opinion. Also, players who bribe people into voting up for them will be caught and there app will be denied for voter fraud. Mod apps are supposed to be something you can look at and improve yourself. Whether or not it gets denied or accepted, its what you do leading up to it and after it that determines what people will vote. Sure it may not be the easiest thing to do, but it helps you make yourself a better person. Who you are when you make the app. dosent mean that’s who you’ll be if it gets accepted/denied. Eliminating the showing of names is kinda not needed. If someone harasses another user for voting down on there mod app, they may not be the best candidate. Keep this in mind.

[vsub391Participant]

Just a bit confused but how are you supposed to vote up for someone for mod if you don’t know their ign? Also, how are we supposed to promote them if we don’t know their ign?

[Rogue_ArtParticipant Karma: 16 pts]

Well. This is what I was thinking. Since moderators are flagged as Moderator below their name on the forums. I was thinking that the voters are anonymous, because the maker of the mod application could bribe/threaten people who voted down on their mod app. Let’s say your a person’s friend, you don’t want to wreck your friendship, if your vote was anonymous you can say the truth and the maker wouldn’t know.

For ban appeals, I’d say that that the the ban appeal maker was made anonymous so that its not like “Hey, its me Rogue, I’m yer best friend so unban me”, instead people would vote for ‘why would you want to be unbanned’.

[GrassFaeParticipant]

have you considered that even if they vote up, the reasons arent technically valid like bob69 was a terrible player. there is a guy called ysosrs and he votes up saying like:
helpful
good player
then that probably will be invalid and it also depends on whether that person is close or just a normal player who may have been bribed whatsoever but this will be kinda useless because maybe some people see it from a different perspective and go like your not good! maybe cuz that person made a past mistake and changed but the other guy does not believe it or witness something bad or stuff like that.
its really how you put it too, because whatever it is is what it is (that didnt make sense :/)
but technically you can see if they’re cheating its hard to explain but you get it

[WitherParticipant Karma: 14 pts]

Comments on posts are some thoughts from the community about a particular player. These comment don’t matter as much. But moderators will make the final decision and members only make parts of that decision on.

[FuriousKnightParticipant]

The anonymous mod app voters maybe a good idea, but for the anonymous ban appeal maker, how can they got unbanned if no one knows their ign or forum nick? ._. And they should put their ign in the template as well, so anonymous might not that effective since their igns are needed. And yeah, just like the others said.

Actually, I prefer a “post count rank” system instead. So, let’s say you got a “newbie participant” rank once you registered. Then after you have total of 50 posts and replies, you will be an iron participant, and you will increase to gold participant rank once you reached total of 100 posts and replies. Then, let’s say only iron participant+ can vote in mod apps and reply in other’s ban appeal, when only gold participant+ can make a mod app. Cause i think that way will show people’s activeness in the forum before making a mod app and will reduce those people that make a forum account just to help their friend’s mod app/ban appeal.

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[maxminoSParticipant Karma: 7 pts]

Notice how only mods replied in this topic?

Anyways, I agree with Wither. Members’s vote doesn’t matter much, but if that person gets voted up by many people, he/she won’t get promoted immediately, but they will be observed by the mods to see whether they are worthy or not.

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