-1 for now
If you see no reason to submit the report, do you also see no reason to respond to the report? Responding to reports is part of the admin's responsibilities and would be something you are expected to handle as well. Furthermore, many of the appeals we see can be linked to a corresponding report. I do not see how the report system can be useless if banned / silenced players are appealing when their ban / silence originated from a report. The report system works. It may not work to your liking but, it does a pretty good job and it is thanks to the community that it has worked so well.
Of course there are players that can avoid the ban and come back like selkies did for so long but, patrolling wouldn't solve the problem either. They can just come back or switch to the skial servers where an admin may not be present until alerted. The damage will still be done in those cases.
Overall, I've seen you around the servers and think you are a nice guy and a great player. but I do find it concerning that you think reports are useless.
I personally, find ban reporting on forums to be not only far too slow, but completely useless as far as practicality. Individuals who cheat on a server usually cause chaos throughout the server on a specific account they made, then they leave, most likely never to return again. On the off chance that they do return, it will probably be under a different name. Let's say hypothetically, the individual is banned. The truly adamant have no issues making a new account, running their game through a VPN, or changing their IP address, thus rendering any ban Skial provides to be useless. Of course, this is with me making an assumption that you ban via IP and Steam account. The point is, I see no reason to submit a ban report on the forums as an individual has to review my post, check my credibility, review any evidence provided, and then proceed to ban the individual.
If you see no reason to submit the report, do you also see no reason to respond to the report? Responding to reports is part of the admin's responsibilities and would be something you are expected to handle as well. Furthermore, many of the appeals we see can be linked to a corresponding report. I do not see how the report system can be useless if banned / silenced players are appealing when their ban / silence originated from a report. The report system works. It may not work to your liking but, it does a pretty good job and it is thanks to the community that it has worked so well.
Of course there are players that can avoid the ban and come back like selkies did for so long but, patrolling wouldn't solve the problem either. They can just come back or switch to the skial servers where an admin may not be present until alerted. The damage will still be done in those cases.
Overall, I've seen you around the servers and think you are a nice guy and a great player. but I do find it concerning that you think reports are useless.