The Xray's gone WAY too far

You haven't covered even half of the things we need to take into consideration.

How would you know, when we all go in poof immediately when we join a server the hacker is on? We're not going to publicly announce to everyone, including the potential xrayer, that we're online. If an xrayer knows a staff member is online, if they have the slightest ounce of common sense, they'll toggle it off.

In short: we catch hackers because we want to. It's not a job and we don't have to treat it like one - we catch hackers because we want to, and when we don't want to (such as just being burnt out, not being in the mood or just straight up just wanting to play Brawl for a bit), we don't.

Because someone has to.

The reason we're given these privileges is because the higher-up staff members responsible for promoting mods feel we're trustworthy enough to manage these privileges appropriately. Not because they think we're going to be constantly online banning hackers whenever we have the smallest amount of free time: but because we can meet the reasonable expectations they have on us.

The simple fact is this: if we're not being paid for it, it's not a job. The only incentive any of us have is that we want to ban hackers and want to help out. If expectations on us are too high, the motivation we have will quickly fade away.

I'm afraid the only thing broken here is your argument:

So are mods not responding to /report, or are too many of us in the "wrong timezone"? Your argument of us ignoring /report is countered by something you've said prior.

War 2.0's "crappy anti-cheat system" is no crappier than War 1.0 when it comes to player xray. War 1.0 has NCP, which doesn't deal with player xray whatsoever.

Considering that, apparently, it's our "job" to do so:

What do I believe?!

This is even worse: not only are you doing nothing yourself to stop xrayers other than complaining, but you've been contributing to the problem.

You're trying to say that the xraying in the war community is getting out of hand, and that the reasoning for this is that because mods are bad. It's blatantly clear what the intent of this thread is.

I've never been asked for proof of a ban and haven't had any. If you know which bans you should record for and which bans you needn't bother recording for, you'll never get asked for proof that you don't have.

In the event someone appeals and I don't have evidence for it, I look at their explanation (if they've given any: sometimes it's just "I don't hack I promise!!!!" and, in that case, I'll deny it) and see if it could contain any validity. Here's an example: say I banned someone for fly on Party. They appealed saying: "there's a glitch on Shoot the Sheep that let's you fly anywhere if you're spectating", I would test out the glitch to see if it's a thing and, if it is, unban them (slightly flawed example because I know of the glitch, but you get what I mean).

Keep in mind that about 1 in every 100 players I ban actually appeals, and that's usually because it's a "controversial" ban that we've been told (unofficially) that we must get recorded evidence of. And, in the very rare case that a new player did ask for proof and I didn't have any, I can trust myself that I'm not incompetent enough to false ban for a blatant hack.

As I've said before, it's been absolutely impossible for me to do this in the past.

It all depends on how good the appeal is. If the appeal is as simple as "I didn't hack" and provides absolutely no arguments or explanation, we could just as easily say "Yes you did" and it'd be just as valid. If the appeal is "I didn't hack, I..." then goes into detail about what they could've done, then we'd unban them.

Spoiler: Kinda rambling on about something, but it's relevant to this discussion

And trust me on this. I was false banned from Munchy and the staff member who banned me, Callahan, didn't record any evidence of my ban. After spending about 2 days just trying to figure out why I was banned (the "hack" I was using was withheld from me), I wrote a long appeal giving a good argument to prove myself innocent. This was denied by DreamOnPvP essentially saying "No you did hack", and that would've been the end of the that if I didn't have friends in their admin team.

I know what it's like to be on the "other end" and, ever since the incident I've described, I've vowed to take appeals seriously and ensure I have a counter-argument just as valid as their argument if I decide to deny the appeal.

I wouldn't say this is off-topic. This is just the course this thread has taken - ultimately it's still (... barely) relevant to the main topic.