In game moderation team?

[summer rock]

Across multiple platforms cheaters are a problem but primarily on steam. I propose a non anti-cheat solution. A system where players can apply to be an in game moderator and time out players which are then flagged as higher priority to real moderators. If they get multiple successful reports then they should be able to use a ban command. This is a completely free way to clean up the population of cheaters because the game would be moderated by its own playerbase meaning the moderators are more active. There are some potential issues with false bans/timeouts which I don't really have solutions for.

I suppose you could incentivise in game moderators with a cosmetic item of some description. Perhaps a patrol type badge or police type hat.

It's an open thread so this could be a bad idea or others could maybe build on it?

[vale knot]

idk but

they better put the ban command away from the game

like putting the ban command on the server console

the moderators must not be the players

ban command in the game can be hacked by cheater too

imo

[vale knot]

and it has to be the real moderator

not the players itself

if so, they should make a sn moderator apply form

[vale knot]

but i dont think this could be a good idea too

if there is no other choices they could just add easy anticheat

[summer rock]

yeah thats what I was going for. I didn't mention votekicking cause it would be abused too much

[summer rock]

I would hope this would be thought through if they were to add this. For example steamID64 whitelisting?