What does an admin or owner look for when banning people based on reports?

[McSic]

< someone who has been playing Gunz since 2009 is likely to have a lot of experience with the game and may have a better understanding of how it works and what to look for when trying to identify a hacker. Additionally, if they are a competitive player, they may have a heightened awareness of game mechanics and may be better equipped to spot unusual behavior or exploits + having competed against 1000s of players during those times, when coming across one who is cheating, it will become beyond obvious.

This point completely ignores that player opinions are extremely subjective and suffer from confirmation bias. Player opinions are heavily influenced by the relation to the players they are fighting. GMs have a better understanding and far more objective opinions on these matters, combined with more insight and in-depth knowledge provided by the antihack system. Confirmation bias is very common with players' opinions and seeing your recent posts, you may be suffering from it too. It describes the tendency of people to favor information that confirms or strengthens their beliefs while being difficult to dislodge once affirmed. This leads to overconfidence in personal beliefs and causes people to ignore evidence that contradicts their beliefs. You seem to have ignored a lot of posts that contradicted your opinion. Anyhow, Dave pointed out (here: https://freestylersworld.com/showthr...=1#post1106554) that players/hackers do get banned very regularly and that there's a lot going on behind the scenes. We're checking. Jordan pointed out that you're free to report when you gather more evidence to strengthen your case (whereas not-reporting due to whatever reason weakens your case). The report section is always open. Plus our GMs do actively monitor the game and also take actions without reports.

Anyhow this is a pretty useless thread that turned into an even more useless ego thread.

Everything has already been said.