OP

by

Firefly

12 minutes ago

Earlier this week I received a third-party report about a player's behavior. The report mentioned large scale criminal behavior. I immediately investigated the situation on my side and read a thousand of the player's chat messages. My assessment was that the player was very socially awkward and didn't respect the same social boundaries that I do. I read it as someone being isolated and being overly social. I saw no signs of imminent danger to anyone's life. I saw no signs of criminal intent. I saw no signs of the large operational scope the report claimed. Regardless, I immediately limited the player for a few days to take away their in-game chat. I messaged them about their behavior, explaining what I think they did wrong and how they could do better. Subsequently I started monitoring their chat and their alts every day. I have clear signs they read and understood my message and I haven't seen their problematic behavior return. My finger has been right on the ban-button for when it does. The third-party reporter disagreed with my assessment and approach. I took this seriously and used a local, state-of-the-art LLM to independently classify all of the player's thousands of chat messages to rule out my human bias and shortcomings. With a neutral prompt the LLM summarized: this is an extremely socially awkward and isolated person over-sharing and over-asking. There are no signs of grooming or predatory behavior. I informed the reporter about this. They disagreed with my assessment and approach. They wrote that they did not want to discuss the matter any further. I respected that decision. When it was brought up again on the livestream yesterday I said publicly that I stand by my approach and assessment in this case after spending many hours on it and analyzing thousands of chat messages. What others subsequently did and said is best explained by them. The floor is yours.