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Hello,

Can a moderator please review and provide feedback on any action that can be taken on a player who griefed a game?

Please send a private message and I can send the table ID.

ath5063 wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 02:11 Can a moderator

Lemme stop you right there. This is a player forum, for users to discuss things amongst themselves. Yes, BGA staff sometimes surface but this is not the way to contact them, and especially not the way to report players. (Look around, nobody else is doing it, and if everybody did, this forum would be useless for any other purpose.)

“If you want to report misbehavior from a player, go to his/her profile page and use the 'Report this player' button.” is what the Contact Us page (link at the bottom of the screen) says about how to accomplish what you are looking for.

No lemme stop you right there.

There is toxic behavior in games and there is novreliable means to properly report this through those avenues. Griefting is unacceptable and is painfully apparently in my game.

So report the player. But not here. Doing it here is complaining, not reporting, and nothing will come of it.

Did you even try doing it the way I (and official BGA documentation) suggested?

ath5063 wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 02:40 No lemme stop you right there.

There is toxic behavior in games and there is novreliable means to properly report this through those avenues. Griefting is unacceptable and is painfully apparently in my game.

Moderators are looking for legitimate reports. They don't have time for silliness. If someone can't even bother to use the appropriate channels it doesn't bode well for the chances that their report is worth reading.

We members of the forums have had a good time with the "obvious" issues in games. One of my personal favorites lately was the thread about the obvious bot user, who they managed to catch with their amazing skills using the evidence that the username had bot in it.

Is toxic behavior not legitimate?

Lemme repeat, "appropriate" channels do not exist to report toxic behavior that is NOT inappropriate (cursing, rudeness, hate speech, etc). I am talking about people abusing game mechanics to ruin the normal flow of gameplay like purposefully losing but not quitting/coneding/etc.. Please try to report such an occurance with the current choices and please report your results.

ath5063 wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 02:40 No lemme stop you right there.

There is toxic behavior in games and there is novreliable means to properly report this through those avenues. Griefting is unacceptable and is painfully apparently in my game.

Your case is not special. Report it the same way everyone else has to.

ath5063 wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 03:07 Is toxic behavior not legitimate?

Lemme repeat, "appropriate" channels do not exist to report toxic behavior that is NOT inappropriate (cursing, rudeness, hate speech, etc). I am talking about people abusing game mechanics to ruin the normal flow of gameplay like purposefully losing but not quitting/coneding/etc.. Please try to report such an occurance with the current choices and please report your results.

If you actually have a legitimate complaint, you still go through the same process. Just because there isn't a drop down menu item exactly named "people abusing game mechanics to ruin the normal flow of gameplay like purposefully losing but not quitting/coneding/etc" doesn't mean it can't be reported. I even once reported someone who had already canceled their account before I even had a chance to report them.

You find the option that is closest to the behavior you want to report and use that. It doesn't have to be exact.

In fairness, there's no way to report griefting.

MarkSteere wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 04:42 In fairness, there's no way to report griefting.

There is a way to report it (whatever it is). There's just no category that specifically says that.