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We as moderators always gather evidence before we act. As such we have evidence as to why you were actually kicked. You didn’t just say “hi” to your friends. You know that. Yet you conveniently missed that part out.
We do a significant amount of background checking with moderator applications so don’t you worry. We don’t accept just anyone.
Though I fear this thread will become some sort of witch hunt against draconix. Everyone is allowed an opinion.
The actual Rule there is no Racism or persistent bullying. In other words “don’t be a dick”. Rather simple don’t you think. Don’t verbally attack people.
Even by your story the admin simply stated that you aren’t supposed to discuss the rules on the server and he directed you to the forums. Apparently that’s a show of force to you. Someone else who saw the conversation went to carry it on and the admin eventually caved and sorta gave an answer. Which seemingly annoyed you to no end.
Then apparently according to your story you say a really stupid “3-line” message, knowing you are going to get kicked for it, whatever it may be. Then complain about it when you get kicked for it. I mean, why’d you say what you say if you are going to complain about the consequences you knew were going to happen. That’s what I don’t get.
Not a good idea to have dick measuring contest with a server admin. I mean you know who’s gonna win that. You ain’t banned properly or anything. Just from that server until the daily server restart.
Anyway. To complete the answer to your questions you had on the server. This is an 18+ game. So we’re all adults. It’s also a very frustrating game. So people are going to drop some word bombs around the place. We aren’t going to kick or even warn for most of it. Which is seemingly what you want us to do. We aren’t robots who instantly react to every little verbal frustration someone has. We as human beings can see the real cases of abuse/harassment/bullying. We can separate it from the random insults or jokes that fly about. Things that will harm and things that won’t. If we see someone getting out of hand we’ll mention it in a way we see fit. Whether through a flat out warning or simply saying “hey dude, tone it down a tad and just play some chivalry”. Since people respond differently to different kinds of “warnings”. We prevent it all from escalating and remove troublesome players who want to escalate it and ignore all the warnings. Which in a way is kinda what you did isn’t it. You escalated the situation you were in. Forcing the admin to remove you temporarily. He saw no other way to defuse the situation. Papsi is one of our newer admins so he may not be fully experienced. But we try to be as human as possible in server administration which is harder to do. We all make mistakes. But we learn from those mistakes and become better admins as a result. Benefiting the community more.
And I think you too have learned a valuable lesson. At least I hope so. Which is listen to the admins. So when an admin says don’t discuss it in game go to the forums and ask its what you should do. You would have got you answer and wouldn’t have gotten kicked. I mean it distracts from the rest of the game anyway talking about server administration in the game chat. People don’t want to read all that.
Guys please. 1v1 each other in game. Not on the forums.
Redemption there’s also the other 5 accounts called redemption with the same IP address. Some of them with alternate names such as Nemesis and even Lilboots. Which is admin impersonation. Plus you openly admitted lag switching. Which is hacking. I mean 5 steam accounts called redemption all with the same IP address as you and the rank boost server and somehow its not at all related to you or your main steam account. Seems to me you got tired of making new accounts and decided to appeal.
You banned lillboots from your rank boosting server pretty quick so gathering members of the public was necessary. And you were always the common denominator. Whenever it happened you were always there. 3 months of searching. It all came back to you. You weren’t the only hacker either. But you were the one hosting. Had a guy openly give a confession about boosting peoples ranks himself.
Whether or not TB looks into it doesn’t matter. You don’t abuse an exploit. You have had far too many chances to change your ways already.
No real official moderator would act in this way.
@gregcau said:
@lemonater47 said:
Thing is DirectX is an increadably safe option.
@lemonater47 said:
Big disadvantage to it really.
Yay lemon is back haha
Dude quote the whole thing before you make others look like twats with selective reading.