It's fine to be lenient with evidence.
If they don't have any evidence, reports get marked as word vs. word and potentially invalid just because they didn't gather everything from damagelogs to deathscenes in case the reported person may be exaggerating the truth.
This creates a very skewed view of situations because the staff didn't fully collect the evidence.
Furthermore, it creates unnecessary frustration and can paint staff in negative light.
There are better ways of dealing with things.
On SGM, there was evidence retention change where that situation was far better to handle evidence leniency because evidence will still be collected, and staff will have no excuse for not gathering evidence.
It is basically after couple of months, evidence may be deleted, and staff's word is just enough.
Furthermore, if storage is a concern, the staff can make a discord channel solely for evidence storage.
It has been done and has worked well when staff includes steamid to their evidence for easier searching.
Thus, change this leniency on evidence gathering.
There's better ways of handling this.
If they don't have any evidence, reports get marked as word vs. word and potentially invalid just because they didn't gather everything from damagelogs to deathscenes in case the reported person may be exaggerating the truth.
This creates a very skewed view of situations because the staff didn't fully collect the evidence.
Furthermore, it creates unnecessary frustration and can paint staff in negative light.
There are better ways of dealing with things.
On SGM, there was evidence retention change where that situation was far better to handle evidence leniency because evidence will still be collected, and staff will have no excuse for not gathering evidence.
It is basically after couple of months, evidence may be deleted, and staff's word is just enough.
Furthermore, if storage is a concern, the staff can make a discord channel solely for evidence storage.
It has been done and has worked well when staff includes steamid to their evidence for easier searching.
Thus, change this leniency on evidence gathering.
There's better ways of handling this.