Improving the Ban/Evidence System

I'm not sure if you are already aware of this, but Moderators only need to record evidence for their bans for 2 weeks after their promotion. After that, they don't need to record evidence, even though it is preferred if they get some.

The main criterias for becoming a Trial Mod is helpfulness, activity and maturity as we believe that it is most important that the staff members will make fair and correct decisions and maintain a sufficient activity. Exceptional knowledge about hacks if of course good, but not one of the main criterias.
To become a Moderator, the main criteria is getting a good grade in one of the hack quizzes we create every 1 - 2 months. The prior criterias are considered again as well, but for becoming a Moderator you do need to know a lot about hacks.

As you can see, we ensure the staff members who have the power to ban hackers are also qualified for it. As knowledge about hacking is not a key requirement for JMods, giving them the permissions to ban hackers doesn't really make sense.

TMods and JMods are allowed to ban hackers for one hour after they recorded evidence and if the player is blatantly hacking.

By the way: Trial Mods simply have a JMod rank but only on one server, so there is no difference in permissions.

 

I like the idea of junior mods being able to temp-ban hackers in a server. This could be good because when I am fighting a hacker in HG, I try to last as long as I can, but sometimes a mod can't get to the game soon enough to ban the hacker before I die. If junior mods could temp-ban/kick hackers form HG games, it could lead to happier players since the response time would be quicker.

Edit: nvm. This is what I get when doing this while I'm in school.

 

It can not get any more simple then this about Trial Mods: Trial Mods simpely record the hacker, then they ban the hacker for 1 hour if you're sure their hacking. Then in that hour you report the Player right after you banned him and then MOD/SMOD's have 1 full hour to see the report. Of course the Trial Mod uploads the video and shares it on /staffchat, slack, etc. The same thing goes for Junior Moderators, they can do the same thing. And for the MOD's however, that's pretty obvious.

 

I just think we need MORE full mods. I sent out some reports the other day when there was a full hacking team on. Only one mod came to my assistance even though I stated there were multiple people in multiple places hacking. Although this isn't about WarZ, this also happens in many gamemodes. This may also be tricky due to timezones (even less mods on one time due to timezones [for example cloudy is a US time zone while ritzy lives in the UK, which can be 5+ hours in difference]). So while I do think your idea is fine, it also has a share of flaws:

JMODs often get accepted with little knowledge on ban protocols/commands as well as general knowledge about hacks. In turn, hack quizzes are made to teach and promote these JMODs to a fitting rank once they've captured more knowledge. I've witnessed many false bans from JMODs relating to hackers - with some not even recording/reporting the evidence.

So while I think this idea would be fine if we accepted JMODs based not only on chat stuff, but hacker stuff as well, I don't think it would work out with the current system we have.

 

I really like the idea, but there's not much different from what you think should be the way it is and what it actually is on Brawl. The only major change is the ability for JMods to ban for up to a day. I strongly agree with this because a JMod has gone through the process of applying and getting accepted, meaning they are active and loyal to Brawl which means they wouldn't just ban a bunch of people like crazy. This is a good idea and I hope Signatured gets a hold of this thread. +1 from me

 

And then there's @SouperUraniumDE who gets banned for "autoban evidence"

 

Oh yeah. I received a PERMABAN because I got autobanned various times. The perma-ban was given on the KitPvP server from Brawl, which I don't even play on. Then: I tend to get banned for "FF" after mouseabusing really, REALLY hard. And the perma-ban: "Autosoup." WHAT?!?!?!?! The first person who can explain that gets a cookie, and the person who implemented that should really think about their career.

 

The evidence system sucks.
Neither of these were accepted:

 

None of those was clear evidence. The killaura guy could easily have hit you (I can say myself that I have managed that) and the sprint hacker is a known bug.

 

Sprint hacker is not a known bug and moving objects can be hit from 3 block distance.

 

No sorry, I meant hacker. There is a graphics bug where you seem to be shifting but have already left the shifting state.

 

I like this new idea for the ban system