Quote from: Timelord2067 on April 11, 2022, 01:23:59 AM

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I do however, feel there should be some ground rules so that there are no misunderstandings about which posts are going to be deleted through moderation. (Hopefully these ground rules will address @holydarkness ' concerns)

No "Newbie" or, "Junior Member" can post an investigation in this thread. They can however post a link (once) to a thread in the reputation section where their investigations can be investigated and analised.

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Mostly, am agree with the ground rules. I appeal to reconsider this rule, though.

As previously stated and evidenced on reports and investigations made by, well... less-than-handful users, low ranked members sometimes can contribute on a well thorough investigation too. It would rather sounds unfair if they're not allowed to post a well founded investigation, and IMO, borderline exclusivizing high member rank. True that they can --by the ground rule-- post their link on the reputation board, but it would pose a possibility to drown the board with new threads as newbies will create new topics every now and then, disregarding the truth and quality of the said investigation, and thus, poses a threat to drown a more important reputation threads like this very thread itself. Further, it would beat the purpose of this thread --to report known alts of anyone, especially those who cheated forum rules-- if there are several threads with same theme.

My counter-proposal is, in the spirit to make this thread clean --which I'm more than eager to see it be-- to perhaps create two different threads that's "interconnected". Instead of asking newbies to create their own threads, just make one thread specifically to let them report or ask for an investigation for alts. Only after the findings proven to be true, the report is "copied" here, citing and crediting the original reporter. This way, this thread will stay neat and newbie can still participate in contribution to purge this forum from cheaters and rewarded --if that's their utmost intention.

Other suggestion is to allow them to post their reports here for couple of times, and if those findings keep showing a bad investigation like the case of teletalk.org, then they'll be evicted from this thread until 2023[/list]