Good morning KDice community. I'd like to take a few minutes of your time to let you all know what I feel needs to be done to create a community that does it's best to eliminate cheating, scheming, and anything else that detracts from the fairness and authenticity of the monthly competition.

First, I'd like to give you a background on the business of my life these days. This will give you an idea as to why I'm not around much and probably won't be until April at the earliest. I'm 29 years old. I have a full time job. I'm married with a son who is almost 3 years old. I am in my senior year of college trying to earn my business degree, and my wife and I are trying to sell our house at the moment. You could eliminate any two things off that list and I'd still be pretty busy from day to day.

I tell you all that to explain why I can't be here to watch game after game or very few tournies. I know Ryan is an equally busy man and I can't speak for any of the other mods, but outside of me an Verms the rest were originally appointed to moderate sites other that KDice. I have asked Ryan many times to appoint more moderators and my request has been denied every time with the exception of Vermont. Even if we had 5-7 active KDice mods, we could still only watch about 3-5% of the thousands of games that are played every day.

I've also asked Ryan to allow the mods the ability to dock points and implement rc's on specific players. He hasn't said yes to either of these and I don't really expect him to. He doesn't have any reason to trust me, or any other mod more than he already does and I can understand him not wanting to give us too much power that can be easily abused.

Hopefully you are still reading this wall of text up to here, so I'll go ahead and get to my point. The only way KDice is going to be properly moderated is for the community to take charge and self-regulate the site. Now I know the forum is filled with PGA accusations and copy/pasted chat logs every day, but all of these posts are circumstantial at best and I WILL NOT moderate based on them. Screenshots must be taken and must show enough evidence to incriminate whomever you are trying to catch. The only information that can simply be posted on the forum and warrant a ban is a login ID and a password to prove an account is shared.

I personally do not know how to take screenshots and upload them to a website that allows you to share them. I am offering up a ***contributor badge*** to the first person that creates a post on the forum explaining how to properly do this. It should include the following:

-how to take a screenshot
-how to save a screenshot
-how to upload it to a website and save it
-how to share it with others
(please include a list of websites that can be used to upload screenshots)

If you are fed up with cheating and scheming, educate yourself on how to gather evidence and report it to me, or Verms, or any of the mods.

If you do not want to publicly post this gathered information on the forum, feel free to e-mail it to me at [email protected]. If you know login/password info to other players accounts (shared accounts) and you do not want to post it on the forum, feel free to e-mail it to me at [email protected]. I will be happy to keep my informants anonymous if you are worried about your internet ego. If you don't trust that I will keep your identity anonymous, create a fake e-mail and send me the information anonymously.

Please keep in mind that if you are trying to catch someone PGAing someone else, I will need a series of screenshots showing the entire game(s) and not just one screen shot of the end of the game. One screen shot isn't enough evidence to prove PGA.

While I may not be able to watch a lot of games/tournies, I do check the forum multiple times every day and I check my mod e-mail at lease once every day or two. If you want me to get information from you, either method is fine.

A long time ago Ryan said that he hoped the upper players would choose to self-moderate each other rather than allow the continual cheating and scheming. I think the site may actually be ready for this. Please share your thoughts/ideas regarding this wall of text.

Thanks,

Thrax