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Niantic Facilitates Weaponised Reporting
It has become clear that some players are making use of the reporting system to “try it on” and see if they can get players they don’t like playing the game banned (or warned).
I’m all for having a reporting system but Niantic should not be just falling for eloquent arguments or pack reporting. There should be substance and evidence that is adequately reviewed before actions are taken like warnings or bans. Some things are obvious of course like clear comms abuse or where real evidence or incriminating logs exist.
Also the lack of ability to effectively respond or interact with Niantic is shameful when there’s a claim made where evidence could be provided without compromising the identity of the reporter. For e.g. repudiation of a spoofing claim, or where reasonable portal submissions are flagged as abuse by others because the location of the submission effectively identifies the submitter.
Niantic is facilitating players weaponising the reporting system to dispense with legitimate, fair and well-behaved (but challenging in game play) opponents.
This is victimising innocent players and creating bad will towards Ingress and Niantic and between communities.
@NianticThia I hope you will bring this up with the relevant parties to help create a fairer process with improved burden of proof and not just having a “talk to the hand, you’re banned” approach.
Re: Research Bounties activated
The complete a single Mission task should go. This doesn't make sense to do a single mission. I have completed over 3,500 missions. I have almost done less than 12 single missions. This is not a reasonable task because missions should be multiples of 6.
Re: The single mission bounty is not a very good task.
The requirement to do one new mission will inevitably lead to people unpublishing well honed and much loved banners to put up a set of convenient short missions that they can do and then unpublish, and create new ones to replace them, leading to churn for players and more work for mission reviewers.
I know people who have done every mission within 50 miles of their home.
There is also a privacy issue -- many people don't like being forever geotagged by missions and refuse to do them.
(Unlike many mission addicts I make an explicit point of doing single missions at times. Then I'm left scrambling to finish a row of 6 before the next banner. I've foregone some of my IFS banners because I was "out of alignment" -- finding single missions to do can be *hard*. I'm already trying to decide which popular banner to unpublish to make room.)
Re: The single mission bounty is not a very good task.
I've completed over 5000 and I agree wholeheartedly. I'm also hearing from some that it appears this must be a new mission. If that's accurate, it's even worse. If I can re-do a 6-mission banner for the bounty, then I can tolerate that. But if I have to go out and find a new mission every time this bounty appears, I'm going to run out of available missions very fast.
The single mission bounty is not a very good task.
The complete a single Mission task should go. This doesn't make sense to do a single mission. I have completed over 3,500 missions. I have almost done less than 12 single missions. This is not a reasonable task because missions should be multiples of 6.
Re: Research Bounties activated
It actually sounds good, tbh. And having its own metric hints us the posibility of a new tiered medal.
The only issue I see for now are the “complete 1 mission” tasks. Banner lovers aren’t going to like these ones, unless they have access to a banner they wouldn’t mind to repeat.
Research Bounties activated
Share which tasks you’ve got and rewards to help build up a list!
Re: Instant bans
The community did not ban you. No player has the ability to ban another player.
Niantic makes these decisions based on their own investigation.
Re: Research Bounties activated
Mission objectives are terrible when you've completed every single one in a 50km radius.
Re: Research Bounties activated
Going to echo that I don't know how good of an idea the "1 mission" objective is as well. Most agents are in two camps - want to keep their banners in order or don't want to do missions at all.
"Complete 1 mission" gives me less than 24 hours to find and finish a banner, which is a stark contrast from the rest of the missions in here. There will be some days that I cannot finish simply because of this mission.
I think the gear is good, though a mix of levels instead of just 7 would be nice (L4-8 resonators, any L8 cubes/bursters).
