Are we allowed to post a video that has recorded a cheat?

solasub · July 2020

well everything is in the title....

Elwendryll · July 2020

Send in to the support. With details. Not on the forum, you wouldn't want people to replicate the exploit, right?

willjones1122 · July 2020

If the video shows how to accomplish the exploit/cheat - do not post. If it's just showing the effect with no way to figure out how to replicate then it *should* be ok. But i would err on the side of caution and say you should just tag it on to an in game report. Better safe than sorry.

Edit: just to be really clear here and after a moments reflection there are probably no "safe to post" exploit videos as people could figure out how to reverse engineer the exploit with a video clip just do yourself and the community a favor and report it through proper channels.

redlink1979 · July 2020

"Naming-and-Shaming: We do not allow posts or threads that are created for the purpose of “naming-and-shaming” other community member(s). “Naming-and-shaming” is the act of creating a post to call out an individual or group by name, and making them the subject of public accusation, ridicule and/or shaming. Generally, naming-and-shaming involves an in-game situation and/or Terms of Service violation, which the ESO Community Team is unable to assist with. A certain amount of rivalry and competitive razzing is healthy for any game community, especially one with PVP elements, but naming-and-shaming goes well beyond that. It typically elevates to a point where the subject feels legitimately harassed. We believe that naming-and-shaming posts and threads can be abused and are very harmful to the community. We also don't feel that publicly calling out or accusing others by name on our forums is in spirit of the game or our community. If you genuinely believe someone has violated our Terms of Service, you should report them in-game via the support interface — do not bring the situation onto the official ESO community forums."

Well, forum rules has this ^

solasub · July 2020

Ok thank you for the answers ; video is not showing how do to it, but the result ; sadly, we have quite few faith in report service efficiency ....

Donny_Vito · July 2020

Now you have people intrigued. Is this PvP or PvE oriented?

solasub · July 2020

PvP

Dusk_Coven · July 2020

If the video includes people's @names or toon names then it would also probably end up falling under the "no naming and shaming" rule.
Best to just send it in privately through a support ticket. Forums can't really help ZOS investigate anything and trolls would probably be all over it too, so I hope you weren't expecting any meaningful discussion.

solasub · July 2020

no it was a real question ; imo cheating is far more worse than naming and everyone should be aware to avoid those cheaters ; but well... we sent tickets with the video link.

Dusk_Coven · July 2020

solasub wrote: »

no it was a real question ; imo cheating is far more worse than naming and everyone should be aware to avoid those cheaters ; but well... we sent tickets with the video link.

I can understand this.
Sometimes people get scammed by Crown Sellers and try to post the information on the seller here so other people don't get scammed. Sounds reasonable, right?
But that's still against the no-naming-and-shaming policy and those posts get deleted too.
It's not the content or intent or amount of proof. It's just ZOS policy. And so far they are sticking to that policy.

We can only hope that behind ZOS's we-don't-reveal-investigation-results policy that an investigation is actually done and something is done if cheating is confirmed.