Why Niantic doesn't actually investigate the spoofers reports?
The current situation is that when spoofers appear and are reported, we get the same copy-pasted replies from notorious Lambert. Unless someone starts a topic on this forum, then the suspicious account all of a sudden gets investigated and what a surprise, he really turns out to be a spoofer!!!
It happened multiple times, not so long ago we had FreakyJugde (spoiler: he was banned through this forum) and at the moment there are two: horrorVacui and VsevolodKol. They both have had been reported multiple times and we still get the same reply.
My main question is: do you really care to keep the game fair? Because if you don't care, just say it, so we know what we are dealing with. Here, I wrote a new reply for Lambert to use "yes we know there are spoofers and we don't give a toss!"
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I support. In cell NR04-DELTA-05, the agents are not playing drones, not in "who will hack more portals", not in "recharging portals", here the agents play to the score. And this is precisely the basis of our favorite game.
People go to the streets and make big triangles, in any weather, they try, they are not lazy, and they do it honestly.
It is very sad and insulting that it is in this cell that spoofers like these two periodically appear, and the game rolls into a fight with the windmill. Becomes uninteresting.
This is far from an isolated case. Such accounts, which do not shun geolocation substitution, appear here all the time. We are periodically either crossed with spoof accounts, or triangles with hard-to-reach vertices are created in this cell.
It's a shame not only for us - not all of our opponents are like that, there are honest guys with whom it is interesting to play, but their efforts are devalued by the "work" of cheaters like horrorVacui and VsevolodKol.
It appears that someone's report on horrorVacui was successful as we have a reset logged for it.
And I highly doubt that FreakyJudge was banned via this forum. That is very likely the same, someone reported it via support and it got actioned. And in the meantime someone else posted on the forums, then saw it was banned and assume it was the post that did it.
4.10.2020 We began to report FreakyJudge via scaneer and support. We reported him really many times next month. I believe, there were several hundreds reports in next month.
5.11.2020 1:17 AM I created theme on a forum.
5.11.2020 11:46 AM He was banned.
Of course, he was banned by report, not by forum post.
Correlation does not equal causation.
I believe that it was pure coincidence, this forum doesn't have much power to ban a player.
I do support the Lambert part, support has sunk quite a lot.
And here we go again, same scheme - other spoofer keaRet
Last night, resistance takes down multi-layered BAF and at the same time a new green account is created and starts crossing the area. And crosses all the ways with impossible travel times. Yes, we reported. Yes, nothing happened. And even if the account is banned, niantic is not taking down the green crosses, so the damage is not reversed.
Kudos to the resistance agent who took his time to actually go and take down one spoofer's cross, that's an example of a fair play, but the spoofer continued in another area anyway.
@UltraViolator Can you ping me on TG please? Same username as IGN
@Azhreia may you continue public discussion, because resistance side worries about this situation too?
The resistance side can show the vert operator their disapproval of his actions, as CatVMeshke and Tony2001 showed yesterday
Проблема таки в том, что мы не знаем кто это🤷🏻♂️
You don't need to know who is it to destroy his links :)
I am assisting @UltraViolator with the reporting
Soooooo
I need to spend approx 3 hours to destroy links that easily can be created by that cheater again?
thanks for the offer, but I'll prefer to refuse it