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/jairoggs Mar 23 '25

It happened the exact same with me... after I reported many times, Niantic changed their account to 'TrainerXXXXX' where the Xs are random numbers.

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u/PatientSpecific7494 Mar 23 '25

Can't the player just go to settings and change their name to something else or is their account barred from that then?

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u/111110001110 Mar 23 '25 edited Mar 24 '25

I imagine that when a company changes your name by force for rule breaking, they generally don't allow you to continue breaking the rule.

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u/Yourmomscoochy Mar 25 '25

Not always. I can have my name (of this account) for a few years in a platform, and then it might be a random string of numbers like a was a new log in. The green owl (duolingo) is the last one I can think of that did it to me. But not many others. Some, I've had over a decade with no issue.

But in the example of this post, that person shouldn't be allowed to keep spreading hate like that.

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u/DawnyLlama Mar 27 '25

Username checks out