Suggestions what to do with racist players

[u/xiayu77119]

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

[u/dark__tyranitar]

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.

[u/jairoggs → u/dark__tyranitar]

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

[u/thehatteryone → u/jairoggs]

The string of numbers is what happens when someone is reported for an offensive name. The player will be prompted to pick a new name when they next open the game (which for those griefers is obviously all the time). If they left it as that for a while either they got bored or finally got a ban to go along with repeated offensive name reports and thus couldn't change it for a while.

[u/Top_Dragonfly8781 → u/thehatteryone]

Interesting to learn this. My trainer name has been a string of numbers from the start because finding a name was difficult. Just so people know -- not every string of numbers previously had an offensive name.