Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25646419-20180312103314

Note: This is the bare bone information.

Trial System
March 26th of 2016: The Trial System first opened up. TurdPile is the creator. He works full time with a different company, but he also helps BlankMediaGames (BMG).

Throughout 2016: A lot of reports aren't particularly being closed, due to not enough volunteers. At some point, M O O N M A N accounts start appearing, effectively ruining many games by flooding the chat with racist remarks and gamethrowing.

September 2016: bluewave41 creates a script which many highly active jurors used while voting in the Trial System. The script made the Trial System more user friendly, allowing users to go through reports with ease. The script was also able to pick up on players who were spamming hate speech and players who may have revealed their fellow mafia in their wills.

Sometime in February and March of 2018: Some judges go on strike, mainly those who were able and willing to place many personal hours into helping. Some judges felt underappreciated and that in order to be efficient, they need to have more power such as the ability to ban users and remove users from the game. Currently if a user is online and is found guilty in a report, the user can keep playing games until they log out. The punishment won't start until the user is logged out. [Note: "Jurors" are people who have played 151+ games and are able to vote on reports in the Trial System. "Judges" are people who have the final say on a report. They can close a report as innocent or guilty.]

March 11th of 2018: bluewave41 removes his script and leaves the Trial System server, along with about 9 other people. ''' So what does this mean? ''' Reports will be closed a lot slower, if at all. Some reports may very well not be closed, similar to how things were in 2016. This is due to those who have left were people who had plenty of free time in their lives and were very dedicated to closing reports for Town of Salem. Basically we have players who are fed up with rule breakers which is understandable. It's part of the downside of Town of Salem being a free to play game. We have jurors and judges feeling drained. We have (ex)-judges wanting more appreciation and more power to be able to deal with rule breakers. We have the Trial System creator feeling drained. We have BlankMediaGames probably feeling drained as well since they're trying to push forward but constantly face criticism. At the end of the day, we're all human and all deserve respect. If you feel like something is draining you, there is no shame in leaving it.

Posts & comments relating to these issues: MOONMAN: https://www.reddit.com/r/TownofSalemgame/comments/82v2yu/many_thoughts_on_bans_player_behavior_and_the/ FishSandwich2/Beyrone (Judge): https://www.reddit.com/r/TownofSalemgame/comments/80xspn/why_the_trial_judges_being_on_strike_is_a_problem/ Judges & BMG: https://www.reddit.com/r/TownofSalemgame/comments/82bzff/goodbye_town_of_salem/ 

Quotes From BlankMediaGames
 Shapesifter13 Quotes:  Shapesifter13 is the community manager for BlankMediaGames. He handles social media accounts, along with answering emails.
 * (This timeout system existed at the start of September of 2016.)




 * (They used to do 3 hour Twitch streams twice a week to answer questions, but it basically stopped at least a year ago. Actually, it might be two years ago. Can't remember.)  