To be completely honest, the way the safety guidelines are currently written would, if I were a parent, make me not want my children anywhere near the server. It feels half done and more focused on 'what should you report' with scattered pieces of copied information from websites that aren't really applicable to the LotC medium such as:
How would any of the above be a factor in LotC grooming beyond the last sentence? I would like to see a more customized and tailored safety policy, something not a copy-paste from online safety sites. Make it more applicable, more appropriate for the average player, give better examples of how grooming on LotC works, not how a boy scout leader gets a position surrounded by minors or what have you.
I agree that we need a more solid layout of who would have access to the report, the information, what steps would be taken. I'd even like to see how they will prove reports aren't falsified in the future, given that the only one cited as falsified wasn't caught as a fake until I pointed out the second tab in her browser while reading the report after it'd been sent to me by one of the people who filed it.
I also think that communication needs to be improved. My report was denied due to the evidence being ancient and lacking concrete proof i.e., the ERP logs. Frill was banned for posting the same logs that were later used to ban KP. A conversation with both parties by admins finally cemented KP's ban. Imagine if that talk had occurred when it first was reported. Yet it was a learning experience and I do not fault the administration for it, they have improved leaps and bounds from the days of shock value pedo scandal threads. Nor do I blame those who made those posts, they were a necessary evil to force admins to act in a time people felt nothing was being done, though I'm sure investigation was merely slow and thorough, given the life ruining ability of such accusations against someone.
All in all, I agree fully with this topic and I'm glad to see it was unhidden. The current safety guidelines are a good baby step, but the community needs more. The community deserves better.