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I would argue as I always have that you don't need the forums whatsoever.
PotM is ingame, not here. Not even the IC-oriented posts need to mean anything for you. Anyone who minds the rules and respects other players has nothing to worry about.
I second this, as it totally reflects my experience too. There is a non-negligible portion of the player base that do not even look at the forums and gets along fine (myself included up until quite recently).
I'm also very much on board with what Lev is saying, I'm not pedantic enough to report every perceived rule-break I come across. In fact, I didn't feel the need to make a single report in my ~3 years thus far. It would take some legit harassment or hounding for me to take that step. The way I handle players that ruin my experience can be described in stages of escalation:
1.) Avoid the person.
2.) Send a tell to the player describing my gripe and try and solve the issue with them.
3.) If no satisfactory conclusion I'd probably continue my avoidance strategy where possible, if not I would likely start the report process.
I can count on one hand how often I had to take it to escalation stage 2 and found each one of those people understanding or at the very least willing to compromise on a solution that suits the both of us. Like said, it never actually got to stage 3. Then again, I don't get myself wrapped up in many plots/factions because my sporadic time constraints would just force me to let people down.
I get that it's not always possible to just 'sort it out among yourselves' when you're wrapped up in plots/factions where these conflicts are more likely to occur, so I get the necessity of an effective report system. --BUT, what I'm reading between the lines here, is that apparently we have such a large volume of reports coming in, that people argue we need a ticket system to handle these efficiently. It really begs the question for me, do people speak to each other and say: "Hey, you're doing xyz and that infringes against the rules/ruins my immersion/crosses a line for me. Could you stop that please?" before they take screenshots and file a report? Perhaps this is me just being stupid/blind, but I seriously can't imagine that (if people actually respectfully spoke to one another to try and solve the issue before resorting to reporting) there would be such a vast report volume that would warrant an urgent need for these proposed reporting systems.
I'm (perhaps naively) of the opinion that resources would be better invested in working on other things.
