Volunteer moderating point of view.
There are so many complaints about a "suicide" that aren't a suicide. A lot of sore losers will just use the report player option and it will unjustly reflect the wrong fair play score for a player. The minimum of 2 players reporting works, because the players in the game itself know what's going on in the game, if its obvious and they care, then it likely a justified report. Not every suicide game is for a moderating staff to be the police, read game logs, and leave warnings and such. That's just work, and we are all volunteers and players. The reputation scores, ranks, games played are meant for an indicator of your opponent, where you can decide to play them, avoid them etc. It's all designed for the site to moderate itself in gameplay. If a players fair play is getting too low, or staff gets the same complaints about a player, it will always surface, and we are active players ourselves. It's easy enough for the staff to restrict them to 1v1 player games so they can only ruin their own games if they want to suicide/miss turns etc. They can claw their fairplay score back to something respectable in 1v1 games, and maybe get that privilege back.
New players often mess around with the buttons too, while getting use to the interface also that could ruin a players reputation score unjustly if it only required one report. The 2 report system prevents that stalker that chases you from game to game.
If a player feels they would like a 2nd report and doesn't want to bother another player, the moderating staff are helpful, as long as a reporter is helpful. Just sending us a link isn't going to cut it. No fun for the moderating staff to look at a gamelog and end up finding nothing. "Aint nobody got time for that!". Please provide as much information to assist us.
Volunteer moderating point of view.
There are so many complaints about a "suicide" that aren't a suicide. A lot of sore losers will just use the report player option and it will unjustly reflect the wrong fair play score for a player. The minimum of 2 players reporting works, because the players in the game itself know what's going on in the game, if its obvious and they care, then it likely a justified report. Not every suicide game is for a moderating staff to be the police, read game logs, and leave warnings and such. That's just work, and we are all volunteers and players. The reputation scores, ranks, games played are meant for an indicator of your opponent, where you can decide to play them, avoid them etc. It's all designed for the site to moderate itself in gameplay. If a players fair play is getting too low, or staff gets the same complaints about a player, it will always surface, and we are active players ourselves. It's easy enough for the staff to restrict them to 1v1 player games so they can only ruin their own games if they want to suicide/miss turns etc. They can claw their fairplay score back to something respectable in 1v1 games, and maybe get that privilege back.
New players often mess around with the buttons too, while getting use to the interface also that could ruin a players reputation score unjustly if it only required one report. The 2 report system prevents that stalker that chases you from game to game.
If a player feels they would like a 2nd report and doesn't want to bother another player, the moderating staff are helpful, as long as a reporter is helpful. Just sending us a link isn't going to cut it. No fun for the moderating staff to look at a gamelog and end up finding nothing. "Aint nobody got time for that!". Please provide as much information to assist us.