So ... why don't YOU /report?

So I am currently happily leeching Competitive Missions since I need the 10k Kurzick faction to advance some of my guys and well ... like I care giving an excuse.
Anyway, as I was happily standing at the respawn point looking all smashing as I noticed an interesting trend.
Nobody gives a shit.
People don't rage, people don't throw hissy fits and people do not report.
When I am playing, my fingers are glued to the /report command and I am VERY trigger happy. You leech - your ass gets reported.
Today - nothing. Maybe a person per game and that's it.


So ... why aren't YOU reporting the leeching bastards?

Welcome back Upier and wait a sec... did you just inadvertently call yourself... never mind!

OT, cause I'm afraid it'll backfire on me.

Well. First off. I hate you and your leeching bretheren.

But to answer your question. Yesterday I went on a reporting rampage of all the lame leechers in JQ. Got a bunch of Dishonorable and couldn't play for a while.

This was after asking team mates to also report.

One thing I noticed is that the Hex Discription for Dishonorable is INCORRECT. Nowhere in the discription does it say

"YOU HAVE BEEN GIVIN A TEMPORARY BAN BECAUSE YOUR LAME TEAM MATES COULDN'T BE BOTHERED TO REPORT AS YOU DID. MAYBE NEXT TIME YOU DECIDE TO USE THIS BADLY IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM YOU WILL THINK TWICE BECAUSE THE ONLY PERSON WHO IS GOING TO SUFFER IS YOU."

Eh waste of time lol, but sometimes I get reported if I'm standing still for like 3 seconds.

I try to report on all Guild Wars Welfare (AKA Leechers) most of the time. But I enjoy playing and there are times I don't notice that there are leechers until its too late. Also the time it takes to report multiple people delays me from killing things (example FA when you have 5 leechers and only 3 playing)

Have to play first to make use of /report.

One reason people don't report is because they don't know how. Even though it tells you at the beginning of every AB/etc match how to report, people don't read it. I say "plz report the leech in base" and get 1-2 people saying how?

Also, in AB format often times players will be miles away from base and not have the leecher in view....

because i'm not a self-important tattle tale who feels entitled to be randomly grouped only with players who play with enough effort/skill to satisfy my arbitrary requirements.

Turns out there's leechers in Random Arenas too.

As to answer your question, I report every leecher I see, and if I get dishonourable I just go grab a snack or read the forums.

i dont /report because i am strong and brave, and can make up for the leechers on our team

I don't report because four times out of five, other people won't do it with me in enough numbers to not get penalized for it.

I used to report them until some of them started using Iliililli Illililil for names and there were more bot leachers than humans. Now I just AB with alliance.

DoA, Deep, Urgoz, FA, and now JQ - great parts of the game, now pretty much useless.

I report every leech. It takes only a second to target and type /report and click the button.

Sadly it's a futile gesture.

The best I can do is complain to support and give them any information I can. Then they can give me the canned response they have been using for years about how they know the system is broken and to keep watching for game updates for any changes to the system.

That might answer yur question.

not worth it, plus i rarely do anything with people i dont know so its a waste of time

Because I've had the dishonorable hex for reporting too much a few times, while the leechers keep leeching. So in the end I decided it's a system that hurts the real players more than the leechers.

Let's not kid ourselves, the only reason /report exists is so that they can say that they technically have a report system. Not to actually be functional, but simply to exist, that's the reaosn there is a /report. When they give a presentation about features they can add the -report leechers and bots to the list.
Just like the search option is a way for them to say they have technically adressed the lack of an auction house. Although at face value it's not a lie, anyone who plays can immediatly tell it's a shallow or even so disfunctional sollution that it has reverse effects.

I'm willing to bet that because /report is know to be a farce, more people dare to actually leech themselves, so the problem becomes worse.

I do report, but I do see that is rather pointless. Places like FA are constantly full of leeches that never get banned. (Add one to your friends list and watch how they're online every day.) Its been a problem since Factions was released. ArenaNet has made it very clear they don't care about the problem. They've continously told us they're aware of the problem but don't know what to do about it. This has been going on for years and it doesn't look like anything is ever going to get done about it. Players have simply stopped caring. Why bother when ArenaNet isn't going to do anything to these people?

Getting dishonorable for reporting people pretty much ended my reporting, along with a lot of my FA/JQ play. Nobody else cares, so I just gave up.

One of these days there'll be a 0 on 0 match; I wonder who wins, the gatekeepers or the turtles?

If I /report, I lose my hourly ragequit.

Ragequitting once an hour when there is a leecher in the team does me more good than using /report. The leechers don't get banned, so there is no prospective long term gain for using /report.

Another approach:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action

Basically, the argument boils down to: I can free ride and let everyone else use /report, and it makes no difference as to whether the leechers get banned or not. So everyone free rides, and the leechers don't get banned.

Either argument is sustainable.

Really? No one reporting? Awesome, I'm gonna do that.

Thanks for telling me, I love free stuff, and faction is no exception