Hardly anyone does sweeps. Not even on most populated private servers. The process is a waste of time. Some smaller servers may take a gander at each of their players’ stuff. But scouring the map looking for potential violations is a waste of time.
Not to mention infeasible. You said you checked 12. I doubt the actual number was more than four. As scouring 12 servers would have taken the better part of an evening. Especially without fly and ghost admin commands. But let’s say you did. Did you document them? Now imagine if you had to, and imagine you now have 768 servers to go. Even if you cut the time in half because of admin commands. You’re looking at a man-hour cost that is ridiculous.
The process of reporting goes like this:
First thing a report by a player is made. There’s a few things needed here. You need to know what server it is. You need to know where on the map it is. And it helps to know who the violator is. Players making reports think the ticket reader is a mind reader and likely forget to include which server it is, and where on the server it is. Lacking those things, the report is likely closed. And yes, players tend to forget these things. Players even forget what server they even played on many times, losing characters when their favorites are reset.
Second the evidence is reviewed. If this is missing, or doesn’t show anything. I’m not sure they continue with the investigation. I assume they do, but they may close the ticket if there is report congestion. I can say this, players are horrible at giving evidence. So much so that I have had on several occasions had players literally show the wrong evidence. In these cases they would make a report on someone, and their evidence doesn’t show the ‘offending’ party at all, but the very ones who are making the report breaking a rule. “Here’s a video of them doing this…” “That’s you in the video doing that…” “Oh… wrong video…” “Heeeere’s your sign.”
Finally if the information is good on where the offense is, and the evidence is clear enough to go in and check it out. They do so. They’ll teleport to the location and take a look based on the evidence. They’ll look at everything in the immediate area and make a determination. If they see something amiss that wasn’t in the report, they will act on it too. This one is particularly funny because many times people who make reports use it as a sort of last ditch effort after doing things against the rules in retaliation to some thing. Then they get hemmed up too despite being the one’s to make a report ‘first’.
The report system isn’t some ‘game’ like people treat it as. They think its some thing you can play with, get a report in first or get more reports in and ‘win’. No one wins when a report is handled. Its simply handled. Not to mention the process is over complicated by people in the community thinking there is some automated thing or AI or whatever in the back, assigning points based on some arbitrary system. There isn’t. Just a dude (or few) reading reports one by one and taking action on those with enough information to act on.
Its no different then a channel or DM on discord being used to make reports except a little more organized by a web interface.
Yes, and pray it never sees the light of day. Something like that will NOT fix the issues you see on servers.