Moderator "Andy"..

[Kurum369]

So for absolutely no reason at all, I have just received a racist and derogatory remark via private message. The sender also felt the need to tell me to "get the f*** out" of this community.

I chose to escalate this and reported the message using the report function.

This is the message I have just received from the moderator who viewed it;
"Your recent report has been resolved: Conversation Message in 'Osrs gold' - just block them and move on - Andy"

Is this the correct way to treat racism and abuse in this community?? I haven't been here long and until recently was only a guest, don't think ill bother staying much longer.

Sort your staff out!? - where would we be in this world if this was allowed everywhere!
I believe Andy should also have some sort of action taken for dismissing this as though it is nothing. Failure to uphold his duty.

Taken directly from the sythe supposedly "member rules";

• Flaming, Harassment, Trolling:
  • Using excessive profanity, insults, or derogatory comments towards another user.

 

[Kurum369]

@Sythe

- @Andy

 

Generally infractions are given out when the negative behavior becomes extreme, and if it had continued and was reported again he would have been infracted as such.

However, the user you reported has since been banned for something else as seen here: Osrs4life11

So I guess you could say this is resolved.

 

[Kurum369]

Generally infractions are given out when the negative behavior becomes extreme, and if it had continued and was reported again he would have been infracted as such.

However, the user you reported has since been banned for something else as seen here: Osrs4life11

So I guess you could say this is resolved.

I would think racism is pretty extreme? Not sure where you draw the line?!

Also; had you assessed this members behaviour from the original report, maybe you would of found out for yourself, that he was infact a ban evader. Therefore you would not of had to rely on another member's report.

 

[John Devola]

Generally infractions are given out when the negative behavior becomes extreme, and if it had continued and was reported again he would have been infracted as such.

However, the user you reported has since been banned for something else as seen here: Osrs4life11

So I guess you could say this is resolved.

Private messages are not the spam forum and its against the rules to PM hate speech to someone else. Ridiculous suggestion to "just block him" with no infraction and OP is completely correct that you are in the wrong here.

 

[ariabot]

Didn't YH get banned for a racist PM?

 

The user was already being looked into for being a ban evader. The report that @Kurum369 submitted was during the time that the @Osrs4life11 's report was being reviewed. Regardless the user was perm banned for evading, additionally a warning was added for being racist if he does attempt to pardon for his mistakes