Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-25648422-20150614101118

Say you went to chat. Say a user arrived and started flooding chat with spam nonstop and continously until the spammer stops. Say you go no moderator around! Oh my! Oh my! Then a chat moderator comes by minutes after the spam stopped. Users start telling the chat moderator you go spam earlier. And then the chat moderator said he/she needs proof.

When something likes this happens, especially chat, like you saw raids and spammers, they obviously need to be reported. But when we do report spam and such, we would have to present evidence.

Here are two methods you can use: Screenshots and Pastebins.

NOTE: This is via computer mode.

SCREENSHOT METHOD

Step 1: Press the PRTSC button on your keyboard. PRTSC stands for "Print Screen." I looks something like this:

Once you press the PRTSC button, remember to hold it for a moment.

Step 2: Visit any external image hosting websites like LightShot (Actually, this requires downloading the program.), Photobucket or Imgur. Imgur is best recommended.

Step 3: (This is Imgur mode.) Press CTRL + V on your keyboard and the screenshot you are holding will suddenly be present for preparation of upload.

Step 4: Click "Start Upload". It is only a few seconds away before the screenshot is uploaded.

Step 5: Link the image to any mod/admin's talk page so that they can see the proof.

A sample of a screenshot. Click to see the full size of the image:

Unfortunately, there are clever people who know how to mess with screenshots by Photoshopping them. And when they do, they twist the truth and this can cause a mod/admin to ban/block the wrong user while the ones at fault slip away. However, the next method will be.

PASTEBIN METHOD

Step 1: Highlight the needed chat text and copy it. Remember to hold it.

Step 2: Visit Pastebin.

Step 3: Do the any of the following paste settings regarding in creating your paste bin.

Step 4: Click "Submit" after you finalized your settings.

Step 5: Paste the chat text you copied and hold in the pastebin sheet.

Step 6: Scroll down and then you click "Submit".

Here is a sample of a pastebin: http://pastebin.com/GRvXUXf6

They are also possible tampering that could happen. So what you can also do is present both  pastebin and screenshot for final confirmation.

If you guys got any oher methods on capturing evidence, feel free to share it here.

Please! This is not a voting thread, so don't put Support, Oppose, or Neautral, okay? I mean it. Cuz that is what people did with my last thread and they put up like "Support". >_< 