Reports

A player can report another player to the staff. The report is kept in the database, so it survives a restart, and the staff are told about it right away.

Reporting

/report Steve Griefing the spawn

The permission is appeltools.command.moderation.report.

• The reason is the rest of the line, spaces included.
• You cannot report yourself.
• The player you report may be offline.

The cooldown

A player can report the same person once an hour. The second report in that hour is refused, and the player is told how long he has to wait.

The cooldown is per reported player: a report of somebody else is not held up by a report of somebody else.

What happens

• The reporter is told that the report is through.
• The staff are told in game, through the staff chat.
• On Discord, the report is posted in the reports channel and the staff roles are mentioned.

The report is stored with the reason, the reporter and the reported player, and with a status: open, resolved or dismissed.

Working through the reports

/reports list Steve
/reports remove Steve 3

The permission is appeltools.command.staff.reports.

Command	What it does
/reports list <player>	The reports about a player.
/reports remove <player> <id>	Removes one report from the list.

The id is the number of the report. The list shows it next to every report.

TIP

Removing a report does not punish anybody — it only takes the report out of the list. A player who deserves a punishment gets one with /ban, /mute or /kick.

The staff notes

The notes are the other half of the watch list. They are written by the staff, about a player, and they are the memory of the staff: "this one was warned twice".

/notes add Steve Was warned about the spawn before
/notes list Steve
/notes remove Steve 2

The permission is appeltools.command.staff.staffnotes. The command also answers to /sn, /snotes and /staffnotes.

• /notes add takes the note as the rest of the line.
• /notes list shows the notes about a player.
• /notes remove takes the number of the note.

A note is also posted on Discord, in the reports channel, with the staff roles mentioned.

TIP

The notes live in the database, not in the memory of the proxy, so they are the same on every server of the network.