SitcomLaughTrack wrote:I'm not in any communities outside this forum but this just doesn't look good. It's one thing to say the staff hasn't had time to review people's reports, it's another to say they didn't get any reports.
That the staff takes so long to see things that could be time-sensitive is worrying combined with this rule change and the lack of clarity about what it means.
Say User A gets in touch with User B and sends them death threats for being gay. That's something the staff needs to deal with quickly. If not, User B shouldn't be banned for bullying if they warn other queer users or if they call out User A for sending death threats.
I mean... maybe this is about specific things I don't know about but this is how it's coming across to me. :/ It would probably be helpful if you had a specific plan and explained what's going to happen and what does and doesn't count as bullying.
I've seen times where users who had been trying to warn their friends and other users of players who had been dangerous, aggressive, or even just done something morally wrong (but not specifically against cs rules like ninja trading or appropriation) but the user who had been trying to protect their friends had received a warning for minimodding, spreading rumors, or bullying.
Likewise a good example of where this rule might clash, is trying to explain why a user is banned or blocked, it's been classified as harrassment by the cs staff. With this rule in place it seems even going offsite to discord or toyhouse will get a user warned, even if the blocked user harassed and threatened the user warning people.
If someone has to rely on the block system to avoid terrible people, then cs staff arent doing everything they can to make sure this a safe place for children. A child cant tell if another user is bad or not without other users telling them that. I personally didnt know about the subtle forms of harrassment like gaslighting or guilt tripping until I was talking about it to users offsite, and I'm a grown adult!
While I understand cs cant take legal action against a player, they can still remove that user from its playerbase, as well as telling the reporter to discuss the matter with officials so legal action can be taken.
Cs has plenty of ways to remove users from the community, I've seen once, and only once, where a user had been making so much of a storm that -while cs should've temporarily banned the user- cs had placed the user the COPPA group, keeping that user from causing more distress. It was only after the user threw public fits and started harassing others that cs finally stepped in. I've seen staff remove posts, transfer the contents of people's accounts (not just pets, oekai posts, threads, forums, all of it), as well as just make the user nearly unidentifiable, changing a users ID number and account. Staff have ways of keeping users out of the chickensmoothie community.
Sorry if I ramble here, I havent eaten yet today, and it's like 6:30pm
