Bad agent is killing the game
Hi - we have an agent in Birmingham who has been reported hundreds of times for his behaviour and also multi-accounting. This has gone on for at least two years now and Niantic have given comms bans for periods at a time but that is all. This behaviour is killing the game of ingress in Birmingham and there is now only a small handful of players in what is meant to be Britain’s second largest city. The comments attached were posted overnight after no provocation or exchange on comm and J hope you will agree with me that they have no place in ingress. If you agree and can take the time to report these disgusting comments I would appreciate it. Whether it is me (in this instance) or another player it is unacceptable. Thanks for help and support. @NianticThia
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continue to report him for harassment but dont reply to him in comm.
We have been reporting him for at least the last couple of years.. there needs to be a point where enough is enough!
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This is very disgraceful and harassment to next level. This agent been behaving like this for nearly year now and only comm bans every time. Wonder how long it takes for niantic to take some permanent action for agents like these?
Step 1: block them in comms & don't respond to them
Step 2: report
Waiting for Niantic to close this thread without any advice on how to get the player banned. Bad actors are a reoccurring theme with this game lately.
I mean they have stated many times they want reports to be sent through support because of names and PII.
Good on you for not replying and taking the bait. Disgusting comments that have no place in Ingress.
I hope they are able to get the help they need and stop using Ingress as a platform to bully and **** others.
When you try to call trolls out in public like this, you're just feeding them, they love this kind of thing. I would suggest deleting this post, reporting them using the in-game mechanism, and lastly blocking them in comms forever. Don't remove the block.
Question. If a blocked agent tries to send you messages, can they? Or do they just get sent and you never know if they're still being a **** without any way for you to know or report?
You just never see it. The person sending the messages has no idea that you've blocked them.
Of course they can. Blocking does not prevent them from continuing to do public shaming in the COMM.
I mean the author of this post has clearly stated that support is not effectively helping by doing permanently ban.
This agent been behaving like this for nearly year now and only comm bans every timeHarassing someone for years in comm is weird niantic dont enforce their ToS more. Because that is very easy for them to take actions since they have all data store what is written in comms so that shouldnt be hard to punish those that behave badly so im not sure why they are still not banned. And now u read legit ppl that got banned without any warning before but those that **** in comms nothing happens to those... 😐️
From my experience, if the target of the harassment doesn't block the harasser in comm, Niantic isn't inclined to do much about it. Why bother if the person reporting it isn't blocking? Then coming to a public forum posting multiple screenshots of it? That might seem like you're trying to run and tattle on them.
Screenshot, report, block.
Do I agree with that? Nooope! However it seems to be Niantic's usual way of handling it, so if you want to see the change, play by their rules.
I don’t think anyone wants to see that in comms. If it was local to me, I’d report it too. We also don’t know if the agent was sent those screenshots by someone else. Would you not share those with an agent if you saw them?
On the other hand, there is always two sides to a story, though, this seems pretty obvious to me. Who knows!
I'm not saying they shouldn't show the screenshots to anyone, just don't bring it up in the public community forums. More private channels of communication are outside of Niantic's sphere of control. Aside from the reasons I already listed to not bring this stuff up on the forum here, it can also lead to bandwagoning and such, which never ends well.
Report, block and move on.