Hello, Flood (and hopefully Ninjas). Last night, I conducted a little social experiment in #Destiny. The purpose of which was to test how effective Bungie.net's moderation policy is. Before I get too far into this, let me get a few things out of the way first. #1: To those who might say I am only making this thread because I'm salty about getting punished, please don't. I went into this situation hoping to get banned, or at least warned. I am happy to report "Mission accomplished" on that front. I now know that the "Report" function works. Or, it works whenever the Moderators decide they want it to work. The purpose of this thread is to constructively criticize the Bungie.net Forum Moderation Team so that they may better help us (the community). I certainly hope they don't take this as anything but constructive. It is not my intention to insult, flame or otherwise make derogatory comments towards them. #2: If you strongly believe that Forum Ninja's are perfect, and can do no wrong... please leave this thread. I am about to criticize them. So, lately Forum Ninja's have been getting a pretty bad reputation amongst the Flood. Claims have been made against them that they are biased towards new members of the forum (those who joined to play Destiny, or "NewFomans"). In the past, I tried to defend them as best as I could. I strongly believed that they were doing the best that they could, given the recent population explosion. But I began to get a little worried as the accusations against them refused to cease. So, as I try to be as unbiased as possible, I decided to run a little experiment before trying to defend them further. What I discovered was absolutely disappointing. I went into #Destiny with the intention of getting banned, and testing how biased or unbiased Forum Ninja's were. I wanted to see how effective they were at their duties (I don't want to say 'jobs' because they don't get paid to moderate). So, I intentionally baited #Destiny with controversial posts in hopes of getting one of them to Report me. It worked. I wasn't expecting a certain user to take it as far as he did, but whatever. You can view the thread [url=http://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/73257365/0/0]here[/url] if you wish. (Let me know if the link doesn't work.) I was immediately bombarded with insults ranging from cracks about my penis size, to my mother being called a [url=http://i.imgur.com/jYCOaat.png]whore[/url]. I intentionally held back on reporting that user to see if a Forum Moderator would come investigating the rest of the thread (instead of banning/warning me for the Report filed against me and then immediately leaving). They did not. As of this posting, that user still has not received punishment (you can tell if they have or not by looking at their post. If it has the 'I violated CoC blah blah blah' message or not). I would like to know why. I think that's a reasonable request. I was under the impression that the "Report" button was to bring attention to a thread that had violations of the CoC and that a Ninja should investigate it. Am I wrong? Please be transparent about this. My memory isn't the best, but I don't remember Moderation being this.... (I don't want to say unfair) lax during the Halo 3 and Halo: Reach population explosions. What changed? Were you told to relax on moderating newer members? Why was this person not punished for calling my mother a whore? As I said before, the purpose for this experiment was to test how effective Ninjas are and the purpose of this thread is to get some transparency on how Ninjas moderate. Thank you for reading.