I need some advice... worst game of my life

[AmericanDream7]

This user cursed me, tried to harass me on social media outside of the game, and wasted 55 minutes on pause on purpose... 

[Akentas]

I am really sorry you had to experience this. There is a very high in increase in alt fake accounts these days and this this type of behaviors. Good that you recorded the Convo and posted here for awareness. Whenever you face this type of situation, record or SS these then DM @Dunedan here in forum. He is the moderator who looks into these. And I see you spent lots of time with him, my personal suggestion is when you get into this situation, use in game settings like MUTE - it will mute that user for you so no matter what they says you won't see and BAN - this will ban them from the games you host or KICK - to kick that user from your game.

How to use - type in chat box "/ban <userName>" 

Or /mute, /kick

 

Also for the 0ad community, specially who been playing regularly and seeing this alt fake accounts behavior everyday, what do you guys think we should do on this matter? How do we keep the community respectful. Gaming heated argument or nub remarks, trash talks are part of online game I think and should be forgotten, not taken seriously. BUT harrassment should not be tolerated. This is my personal opinion.

Edited 3 hours ago by Akentas

[Atrik]

@AmericanDream7, @Akentas, sorry you guys had to face this. Indeed you should not hesitate to mute and ban from your games, players that seemingly just want to harm. In most cases they, themselves believe you did something wrong and their answer is to be toxic, which is obviously them not being reasonable.

For my take on this, I certainly don't want to push toward having more policing, but we should work toward having more efficient tools to blacklist-whitlist players. (See this opened ticked)

[Boudica]

The background noise definitely adds to the dramatic effect. Is that cosmic noise?

[Akentas]

@Atrik i agree with you on most of the things, but on this policing thing i disagree because i have been getting harassed for 5 days now constantly. For using a in game setting "ban" to keep away harassment from the game i host. You been online, you have seen all the death threats, cursing about me and my my mod, all the disrespect and harassment even though i haven't said a single thing towards him accept to "Leave Me Alone". Not just you the whole lobby been seeing these for 5 days, but where are the in game moderators? I have been pinging @Dunedan all the time but he responded once only in game and just said follow the instructions if you want to report anything while there was bad game name on top of it, dia cursing my mom, for him to see and it stayed there for a long time. But nothing happened, no one watching anything in game and people getting away with harassing others. You know me, all other regular player knows me, Tell me what have i done to deserve this? How do i respond toward this?

He did the same thing in 0ad enjoyers discord Infront of the discord moderator @TheCJ and got banned for it. 

Making nub remarks or debate over game on online games are common and normally people gets over it next day. But these are not okay, attaching some ss from last 5 days below. They are cropped because of upload max size, if anyone wants i have 76 ss zipped from last 5 days. I can show u where i haven't said a single bad thing towards him, only banned him from my hosted games to keep harassment away, and i got cursed at, disrespectful words towards my mom, multiple death threats and constant harassment from his alt accounts. I am getting exhausted of all this. And if anyone curious about why i banned him, here is the context how it started well explained,
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Akentas]

I was not planning to post about this on forum, because its very dirty and black part of 0ad. But someone needs to do something about it. i been playing this game for 2 years now and i love it. These are all the dirty truth that should come out and aware the community. Instead of observing drama and laughing at it, players who enjoy this game, care about it, spending time on it should come forward, discuss, take steps to find solutions. AND IF I HAVE DONE ANYTHING WORNG towards diagonalo, or wronged anyone else in a way, they can come forward with proof, I will apologize publicly for my mistakes.
@Chasca @MarcusAureliu#s @Dunedan 

Edited 1 hour ago by Akentas

[Dunedan]

15 minutes ago, Akentas said:

I was not planning to post about this on forum, because its very dirty and black part of 0ad. But someone needs to do something about it.

The best way to report abusive behavior is to send a private message including screenshots and other details to one of the lobby moderators here in the forums.

That's much more effective than pinging people or complaining in public posts. And if you ping moderators in the lobby please include what's the issue. You can't expect people to be looking at the lobby at that moment, neither can you you expect people know why you're pinging them when you just write their username.

[Akentas]

Thank you for the clarification @Dunedan . I have sent you a private message with explanation, context, screenshots and zip file with all ss from last 5 days. Text me if you need anything more. Have a good day!