Is there any use in reporting tankers?

Opposite opinion here. Multiple posts on FB with guys getting their accounts locked out. When they message Pix they're being told their account was locked due to behavior that runs contrary to Pix's expectation of how the game should be played.

That all depends on whether or not pixo actually has in writing somewhere their "expectations".

You ARE referring to this thread, aren't you?
war-robots-forum.freeforums.net/thread/11227/war-robots-yesterday-people-play

Pix should not have the leave option available till you are meched out or clearly explain and warn players who are getting bad karma. Since they clearly track bad karma as a precursor to banishment into the LQ they could simply add that to the hud. Kinda like a tachometer on your car, you could see when you are getting close to the red line and back off.

What? .. For serious?

HA! Good for Pixonic! I'm gonna buy a Butch now ..

Yes I know you can leave after meching out. It why I said the leave option should not be available till you are meched out.

I'll admit that I've considered it on numerous occasions.  The lone thing that keeps me from doing it is that it screws over the other players on my team and it's not fair to do to them.  It's especially obnoxious since we have the event going on now where you're required to win in order to progress.

I also find it to be pretty infuriating that approaching half of my losses since the event started are due to people fading or tanking.  6 days and many hours of gameplay in and I just got to the final stage of the Aphid step this morning before work. 

There's no rule for them but marketing sense.

If a company starts behaving in an unpredictable or erratic or unprofessional way,
it will start to piss off those who keep her alive.

Putting some rules/Eula should be in their best interest so they don't appear unprofessional,
and give some guidelines to their customers to avoid  unpleasant situations.

We are primarily customers, then players.

Yep, it's been a long time debate if "scarcity" makes something more desirable. 
I.e. if the game would allow anybody do anything - it _MIGHT_ get boring for everybody quite fast;
But if you are not allowed to do this and that - you know that general public is being filtered somehow, so you are going to end up in a pretty nice place.
It's almost like cafe\restaurant; while it should allow everyone to enter, it is nice when you got some rules inside the cafe, so you know what to expect.
Say, aggressive football fans are fun in small pubs (been there, done that), but I wouldn't like to see them (or younger version of me, even) in a family restaurant.
And mind you, it is not written in the law (well, for the most part) that you can't behave like a 「cotton headed ninny muggins」 in a family restaurant.

Russel MCYL

the problem is that we are debating it on the forum.

We aren't even 1% of playerbase.

The great majority of players don't follow the War Robots forums, wiki or social media.

The great majority of people ending up on Leavers queue have no idea they are even on a different place than normal queue.

Rules and communication both help the company and the players.
They mostly help the newbies to not fall into errors thay they did with no malice.

Also more clarity, like signaling players they are on a different queue would sensibilize them about the issue.

Let's be practical, how many posts have we counted these months with people at bronze/silver sincerely raging that they were being matched against high leagues, because they had no idea they were in LQ?

Answer: Too Many, for a feature that had to be temporary and ended up being permanent.

Pixonic needs to put just warnings inside the game.

I never stated that the Banning was entirely due to "Tanking." I implied that the Banning of the "Tankers" is entirely warranted and I applaud Pixonic for doing so. I am not being naive, you are reading out of context and being condescending.

Furthermore, there is a ToS. Players are well aware of the rules of conduct. The game will be much better off without such behaviour.

Nobody is saying the game isn't better off without tankers. And banning of anything for any reason is only warranted if there are written rules that are agreed upon when you start playing the game. I've never seen a ToS or any sort of written rules in-game, so I'm not sure what you're referring to. If you're referring to some outside source that someone would have to voluntarily search for to even know it exists, that isn't sufficient to warrant action.

It's the same concept of leavers queue, or any type of punishment. If you're going to punish people in game, they need to know why. Sure, we know why. But this forum has an average viewership of about 4K a day according to the stats on the home page. Based on people's guesses and download numbers, that's not even close to 1% of the population of the game. Banning people in game for "rules" that less than 1% of the game population are aware of is not justified, no matter how hard you try to.

I want tankers to be dealt with. Whether it be bans, or leavers queue or removal of rewards. But there need to be rules put in place to begin with, so there is something to consistently enforce.

I don't think tankers care if they are disrupting game play. As the game currently stands, they are breaking no rules. That is what needs to change. You cannot expect the entire human population to conform to morally acceptable standards just out of the goodness of their hearts. Some people suck. There's no debating that. I've never heard of a game that has no rules and arbitrarily bans people. Every game I've ever played that has a reporting system and actually enforced bans had some so of written ToS that needed to be agreed to in order to play.

I'm not even sure why you're arguing that. You'd simply prefer for people to be blindsighted and for there to be no rules to the game? I get that you hate tankers, but if you desire for there to be no rules and for people to be punished without any warning or knowledge of why, are you really that much holier than they? The game should be played fairly, yes. The game should also be run fairly. There is no reason, or excuse, to expect one without the other.

They have never stated any of this in game. And I would venture to guess that the majority of the players in the game do not look at Reddit/forums/Facebook pages to find all of this obscure information Pixonic releases. They're inconsistent in what little communication they have with the players. I spend a lot of time outside of the game, and I don't even know where all the stuff they release gets put up.

As far as your real life scenario. Say America bans cigarettes tomorrow, and the penalty is death. People have always frowned upon smokers and smoking, but it's never been illegal. Oh and by the way, the government only tells people that happen to be part of city councils, and nobody else in the country knows about the new law. The next day, the Government begins executing people that smoke, and doesn't tell them why even then. They're just dead. Only way to find out is if a family or friend contacts the government asking why. And even then, the only people that know are those family and friends, and any direct person they happen to tell. In this example, we are one of the city councils. We know about it. But the players in the game represent everyone else. Doing something that's been frowned upon forever, but never actually against any rules.

And again, if there is a ToS that is not available within the app, it doesn't apply. You can expect every single player to Google War Robots ToS to find some rules written on some outside medium.