Courtroom App

**IGN:** 4everNdeavor

**Why I would like to be added:** I have frequented /r/uhccourtroom for about a year, keeping tabs on controversial cases, reports on well known players, and those that I have submitted myself. I have been a part of the uhc community for two years and have actively participated and talked in games, spectated and assisted in hosting, helped others with server setup, hosted and spectated 80 of my own games, commented on the community post, participated in discussions, organized and attended events, provided entertainment, presented suggestions for the subreddit, introduced new players, moderated pvp servers, made close friendships, and been generally helpful where I was needed in the community for the entirety of my time here.

I would now like to change my focus to making sure people are playing fairly on a larger scale than game to game moderation. I have become friends with several committee members and as a part of those friendships I decided to more actively comment on reports to provide the committee with the community feedback that can sometimes help them come to a verdict. If I am going to continue to actively comment on reports like I plan to, I would like to be on the committee so that I am able to make even more of a difference towards banning hackers.

**Why you should add me:** For the past 2 months I have actively commented on over half of the cases posted in that time. I have proven that I am capable of recognizing hackers and dealing with them appropriately which is reflected by the extremely high percentage of my suggested verdicts going into actual verdicts. As far as I know, this percentage is very close to, but not quite, 100% on Closed Cases at the time of this comment but I admit that I have not checked nearly all of them. The ones that I have commented on seem blatantly obvious in 9 out of 10 cases so I do not bother to check and see if the committee agreed with me on all of them.

I have also proven that I am capable of catching and reporting hackers myself. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjHNHakx7Ik&list=PLZJVb6YSIdeBLCTbOr0zWNv3OgyuA5fTG) is an unlisted playlist on my youtube channel of all of the reports that I have made since getting a computer a few months ago that is capable of recording at a watchable quality. There were a handful of other reports that I made before that, but those are long enough ago that they no longer reflect my ability to catch hackers. Note especially the second video, which is evidence I offered the committee on the Hunter_ report which is still open with a 3-2 split decision. Mind also my [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/uhccourtroom/comments/486rzh/hunter_report/d0hwtns) on that report to see how clearly I am able to express my thoughts and put together cohesive arguments for my points of view. 3 of the 10 videos in the playlist have recently been reported and I expect they will be in the next Batch Post. A further 2 of the 10 are on the current Batch Post. The remaining 4 have unanimously been added to the UBL. It is worth noting that 9 out of the 10 are for xray or cavefinder, mostly due to speccing preferences, but also reflect my ability to catch xrayers over those that use hacked clients for other purposes. It may also be noted that for most of those reports there are at least three pieces of evidence and game sounds are clearly audible.

While verdicts for most cases, especially those for xray, are obvious to me, here are examples of me explaining my thoughts on debatable cases.
[1](https://www.reddit.com/r/uhccourtroom/comments/49qabj/tsmbros12_report/d0u0qry) (Currently 4 votes for No Action)
[2](https://www.reddit.com/r/uhccourtroom/comments/41ljih/officerhardnips_report/cz39mdw) (4 votes for No Action, 1 for Abstain)
[3](https://redd.it/40p2u0)

Due to many of the reasons listed in the "Why I would like to be added" section I have proven myself as a long time, active, helpful, and trustworthy member of the community. One tangible way of showing this is the number and quality of places that I have been trusted as Staff. I was first staff on my own personal server, Foreign Gaming, from it's beginning in March 2015 to it's end in August 2015. Since then I have been staff on AU Eureka and the Emerial Network. I am currently staff on Conquest, Seizon, Ember,  and the entirety of the Cyburgh Network, beginning as an active and helpful player on the PvP Server where I successfully applied for Moderator. From there I became a Spectator for the UHC servers and now serve as one of about thirty respected Host's there. I still currently moderate as well as find and report hackers on all of these servers.


**Suggestion:** Improve courtroom to community reputation.

According to this [image](http://i.imgur.com/MSDXYuY.png) from Sean081799's recent poll of the ultrahardcore community, 40% of respondents view the courtroom in a Neutral way. 33% view it as Good and 13% as Very Good, which is positive, but the remaining 12% view the courtroom as Bad or Very Bad. These numbers are overall not bad, but they could use improvement, especially to those that responded Neutral. Of course this could be skewed by a number of factors including that Sean tweeted this poll to 700 followers who may not all be aware of the courtroom and it's purpose, the fact that it was towards the end off the poll when people may be more prone to choosing an answer quickly, the state of the courtroom at the moment each person took the poll and the times directly before and after this, the mood of each respondent at the time they took the poll, or a number of other less important factors, but the fact that half of respondents could not positively rate the courtroom is rather worrying.

Some suggestions to combat this are to add people to the committee that represent the community in a positive way (which I believe is being done through this nomination process), more strictly removing or censoring members of the committee that are less professional or more controversial while representing the committee (I believe some of this has been done), being more transparent about the roles of those on the committee that may not appear as active because they do not frequently vote on cases, and reinforce to the community how their feedback affects committee decisions (which I believe was partially done in 000Edviin's case and the resolution of the LabyMod debate).