#014

December 5, 2025:- Admin Tooling Expansion & Dispute Lifecycle Foundations

Purpose

To improve platform integrity and transparency through enhanced admin interfaces, dispute lifecycle tracking, and match rule configurability for advanced tournament customization.

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Key Highlights

🛠️ Admin Dashboard Upgrade

• Replay viewer now supports multi-speed review, move-by-move navigation, and flag annotation.

• Admin audit logs added: records every manual match override, dispute verdict, and flag dismissal.

• Mod actions are now tied to specific user sessions, allowing traceability and rollback if needed.

⚖️ Dispute Lifecycle Infrastructure (Alpha)

• Initial schema drafted for user-submitted match disputes: includes timestamps, evidence links, and resolution status.

• Backend supports time-limited appeal windows and admin assignment queues.

• Notifications now sent to users when disputes are received, updated, or closed.

⚙️ Custom Match Rules Support (Prototype)

• Tournament config expanded to allow stake minimums, turn timers, win conditions, and rule modifiers.

• Ruleset validation hooks stubbed in both frontend and smart contract layer.

• Admin UI for rule preset creation undergoing UI/UX testing.

📊 Trust Score Logging & Analytics

• Trust score model now logs decay over time, admin interventions, and referral quality weighting.

• Decay logic encourages continued fair play post-flag resolution.

• Admin dashboard supports historical trust timeline review per user.

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Why It Matters

• Robust dispute handling fosters trust in Tapzi’s fairness model, especially with higher stakes.

• Custom rules open the door for event diversity and community-hosted formats.

• Auditability protects both players and moderators in edge cases.

• Real-time analytics empower proactive moderation and reward honest participation.

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Open Issues

• Dispute escalation and reassignment logic not yet automated.

• Custom match rules are not enforced on frontend (validation is backend-only for now).

• Some audit logs not showing correct timezones across admin panel views.

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Fixed

• Match replay viewer now properly resumes after pause/seek on mobile.

• Stake validation bug fixed for custom tournaments—now enforced consistently server-side.

• Admin actions now emit system logs for downstream alerting and compliance review.

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Next Steps

• Complete frontend enforcement of custom match rules.

• Integrate dispute tracking into user dashboard for transparency.

• Add basic resolution metrics to trust score audit feed.

• Begin work on moderator performance dashboard with verdict review outcomes.