I'm trying to report a player for joining hundreds of tournaments with apparently no intent to play them, leading to thousands of automatically started games for them that just slowly time out leading to a lot of frustration from other participants.
Affected are not only the direct opponnents (who joined the tournament for the games and a good competition), but also all the other participants as
* one player gets an easy win, which is unfair
* because everyone has to wait the maximum game duration for no reason
* it is especially painful when the game is for 3+ players because it isn't even just a "free win" for those games when the competition between the other players on the table is being destroyed and a random player advance to next stage (in multi-elimination).
Even though that player is most of the time on 0 Karma, the Karma limit for tournaments doesn't work for them, because they just build up their karma short-term by playing some quick games to then join hundreds of tournaments within the short time they have the required karma. So tournament creators cannot evade them by setting a reputation-restriction.
It was said that this behaviour is not allowed, so I'm trying to fill a report for this. I'm encountering the following problem. When reporting, I have to choose a reason what to report the player for:
The marked categories are the only one's I could imagine to make any sense for the case. But unfortunately they are all a dead end. No report can be filled with these reasons. Instead if you pick one of those options, you only get to read a note that either the system is already handling the problem (which obviously it isn't) or what they did is probably not against the TOS. You're encouraged to give a red thumb and that's it.
So if the moderation system is supposed to be used for a case like this instead of discussing the case on the forums - what should be done here? All the other options make no sense to select for this case. It would be helpful if there was at least a generic / open category where a report can be filled. But as it is now, there isn't even a "next best thing" to pick.
Apart from that I believe it would be better if indeed the system would handle cases like this by not allowing to join so many tournaments or by improving the karma system in a way that it is harder to rebuild so quickly.
Affected are not only the direct opponnents (who joined the tournament for the games and a good competition), but also all the other participants as
* one player gets an easy win, which is unfair
* because everyone has to wait the maximum game duration for no reason
* it is especially painful when the game is for 3+ players because it isn't even just a "free win" for those games when the competition between the other players on the table is being destroyed and a random player advance to next stage (in multi-elimination).
Even though that player is most of the time on 0 Karma, the Karma limit for tournaments doesn't work for them, because they just build up their karma short-term by playing some quick games to then join hundreds of tournaments within the short time they have the required karma. So tournament creators cannot evade them by setting a reputation-restriction.
It was said that this behaviour is not allowed, so I'm trying to fill a report for this. I'm encountering the following problem. When reporting, I have to choose a reason what to report the player for:
The marked categories are the only one's I could imagine to make any sense for the case. But unfortunately they are all a dead end. No report can be filled with these reasons. Instead if you pick one of those options, you only get to read a note that either the system is already handling the problem (which obviously it isn't) or what they did is probably not against the TOS. You're encouraged to give a red thumb and that's it.
So if the moderation system is supposed to be used for a case like this instead of discussing the case on the forums - what should be done here? All the other options make no sense to select for this case. It would be helpful if there was at least a generic / open category where a report can be filled. But as it is now, there isn't even a "next best thing" to pick.
Apart from that I believe it would be better if indeed the system would handle cases like this by not allowing to join so many tournaments or by improving the karma system in a way that it is harder to rebuild so quickly.
