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/Monoskimouse USA - Pacific Mar 24 '25

Not after 3 times, after that it's just numbers and they can't change it again and are stuck with it. Getting friends to also report them makes it go faster. Our local discord got VERY good at reporting people like this and we never see it anymore.

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u/Stinkus_Dickus USA - South Mar 24 '25

That explains the few players I’ve ran across with random numbers for a name

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u/Top_Dragonfly8781 Aug 12 '25

No it doesn't. My account has always had random numbers because that's how I made it. I can't be the only one that gave up on a cool name and just typed numbers.