Mods are not wrong to be weary of "straight-forward" reports. It's a lot easier (and more likely) for someone to fake one screenshot of a user saying "haha I scammed you" than to fake 6 of a more complicated and subtle scam.
If scammers were never banned, not only would that user still be here (kind of a large flaw in your complaint), but our ban list also wouldn't be as massive as it is. Whether you notice or not, even when not directly answering scam reports, we're banning quite a few users.
1. So if he hadn't flat out said thanks for the account, he would have been banned? So this is a lesson to all scammers: Next time you scam them flat out say it, then you can't get banned! Valuable advice, I should have made a guide for it and sold it.
2. He wasn't banned for scamming me, he was banned AFTER scamming someone else.
3. This site is years old, no duh the list is long.
Most people never give enough info/put it in the correct format. I wouldn't have banned based off that 1 screenie either. If everyone who reported followed the template then reports would be answered faster. If people checked the scammer section before trading then most people wouldn't get scammed.
1. I had plenty of info.
2. It had flow to it, I'm pretty sure a 5 year old could have found their way around my report.
3. Okay so now the scammer section is more to check to see if someones a scammer rather than a section for MODS to look at and for MODS to ban people? There are over 16000 threads of scammers and ban evaders. You want me to look through them?
No, you don't. That's the point.
Please, enlighten me, what more proof can you ask for. BTW this thread isnt to attack you, I see a lot of people getting off clean. I honestly probably wont send a ban report in the future ever again. I got banned today but will I bother sending a report that wont even get checked? Probably not.
Chat logs aren't accepted for a reason. They are as good as text files. If everyone would just provide the evidence we require, reports would be answered very quickly.
We aren't forced to do scammer reports. We'll do them when we have the time.
1. It wasn't a chat log, it was a picture. There is a big difference bud.
2. I followed all the rules and guidelines here:
http://sythe.org/showthread.php?t=207211
3. What is more important than answering scammer reports during your time on sythe? When you agree to be a mod your accepting that responsibility. Yes, you're right, you don't HAVE to do this and you AREN'T getting paid but does that argument stand at all? No, because you agreed to do it. No one made you.