To add on, putting the exact time of when you can clearly see the rules being broken in the time stamp spot helps a ton when handling video reports. That way you don’t have to spend time editing as well as we will just skip right to the correct time which allows for reports to be handled much more efficiently.
I use OBS. I don’t record much at all any more, but when I was making reports back before I was staff, it worked quite well. And having optifine also helps with the zoom feature so you can easily zoom in on names to get a clear shot. If you use 5zig, it also has a feature which allows for up to a 12x zoom (has a slider for how much you want it to be).
I used to report teamers and cheaters, but that was before the punishment update (teaming used to be 1 day only, now it stacks leading to permanent bans, so as you can image, lots of people teamed with a punishment that short) and before sentinel really became good (there used to be cheaters 19/20 games or some ridiculous number, but now I rarely see them outside of assassins). With all the changes, I would probably say the majority of reports are now chat related (swearing, spamming, advertising, etc).
Probably biggest tip is that you don’t need to go all out. Some people spend time editing their videos and doing all this neat stuff, which is cool, but you are just making reports. You could just upload the raw evidence, put a time stamp in, and submit the report and it would have the same result, which saves a lot of time on your end. Though if you want to do all the editing, go for it.
Definitely this. I sometimes feel bad when I have to give a staff warning instead of being able to mute a player for the stuff they say in chat. If you are able to warn them and report them, then it garuntees they get a punishment instead of just a warning. If you aren’t able to get a warning in though, you can still report it, they just most likely won’t get an actual punishment but just a warning so future offenses will result in a punishment.
