r/TheSilphRoad • u/xiayu77119 • Mar 23 '25

Discussion Suggestions what to do with racist players

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Hi everyone.

Recently it seems a racist player have moved into my neighborhoods and occupy the gym with auto heal. (Neighborhood consist of multiple condo )

What makes it worse is the name he has been using is extremely offensive and aggressive. After reporting to Niantic of multiple account and offensive name, the individual just create new accounts and continues. While I have reported the main account, but there wasn’t any offence done, so nothing has been

Names Kllllingchinese Sh00tingchinese Chineseatratyum Kilingch1nese

Any suggestion what can be done, and as a dad with little kids it’s worrysome to see this much hate and will he possible act on his hatred

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u/dark__tyranitar USA | Legacy 40/50 | Shinydex 760 Mar 23 '25

There was once a player that moved into my area that had offensive names. I kept reporting those names every single time and eventually their account was just a string of numbers. Not long after that they seem to lose interest and move on. Don't confront, don't cause a fight, just passively report from the shadows everyday. Also never knock them out of the gym, let them stay as long as possible.

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u/BojackIsSecretariat Mar 23 '25

Curious, why let them stay?

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u/Blitz_Borden Mar 23 '25

more people see it more people report it, maybe?

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u/BojackIsSecretariat Mar 23 '25

Ahhh good point

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u/techbear72 50|Valour|UK Mar 23 '25

And it means they’re not earning coins

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u/troccolins Mar 23 '25

i don't know how much coins matters on a burner account meant for trolling

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u/Sublimotion Mar 23 '25

yeah it's obvious the entire point of those accounts is to want those names to be seen, like a billboard.

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u/techbear72 50|Valour|UK Mar 24 '25

One of them is level 30. Not sure that’s a burner. Perhaps it is, perhaps not.

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u/avilsta Singapore L40 Mar 23 '25

They also get off to people responding to their hate messages, or whatever weird rheotic they have. Ignore them and they will find other people to be annoying to.

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u/Dengarsw Mar 24 '25

Ignore them and they will find other people to be annoying to.

And that's the problem. We had a GROUP like this. I hadn't realized they were a problem and this is the same advice I was given. The problem was, when they thought I stopped, they just started targeting other people... which was partially how I was targeted in the first place.

In this situation, OP probably doesn't know them, but if they did, a COMMUNITY effort could lead to them at least admitting something incriminating that at least the game compnay/chat host may have to do something about, if not the police. That's what happened on my end, and not only did Niantic finally do something about ALL of them, but so did Discord (where they literally spelled out a stalking path, street-by-street, while still claiming it wasn't stalking XD ).

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u/jeangreige USA L50 Mar 25 '25

That is disturbing that they somehow found each other and enabled each other to rationalize their psychopathic behavior. Glad ppl eventually listened, geez.

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u/maxiface Mar 23 '25

How do I report?

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u/DudeXicle Mar 23 '25

Settings -- help -- chat