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Title: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Swaggart on April 01, 2012, 05:30:11 pm
I used to play a mod for a game that was roughly 9 years old. The concept of the game itself is fun and it had a list of rules that governed gameplay and a method to report those who broke rules when admins were not around to see it. As you can probably imagine, people got sanction happy (sanction was the term used when someone was punished for breaking rules) and was soon used as a method to lash out, troll, and just be a fucking tool to those you didn't like or were better at the game.

As you can probably imagine, this led to a very divisive community that makes this one look mature and collected. It inevitably led to a lot of veterans leaving simply because the amount of acidity on the forums led to people being banned almost weekly for downright questionable things sometimes simply because they were either guilty of association or they beat someone who was awfully butthurt.

So what is my point you say? As long as there is a way to snitch people, as crpg has with the ban request threads, it will lead to hard feelings and will eventually foster bitter people who couldn't give two shits about the other person playing the game.

I'm going to use an example that I saw today, and I'm in no way trying to start a trial by forum here, but the thread were Lt Anders requests a ban because some Chaos members were allegedly valour farming. I'm not even sure how you can prove that, but what I'm more concerned about is why Anders would go through the trouble of wanting a ban when he himself wasn't even a victim of anything.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we should remove the method of reporting buttfuck trolls who exist solely to screw up the game for others. I just believe we should all take a breather, relax, and try not to get ban happy, especially if you weren't the victim of anything. Snitches snitch for some benefit, but people here in crpg do it simply because they don't like this person or this clan and will go out of their way to get them punished for something seemingly innocuous. Simply put, this will lead to an environment where it is almost impossible to have fun and play the game because people will be too concerned with screenshotting and frapsing the shit out of the game to actually play.

tl;dr: Relax, play the game, and don't worry about getting people banned.

Edit: Bolded part a lot of people seem to ignore/forget.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Teeth on April 01, 2012, 05:39:08 pm
I just believe we should all take a breather, relax, and try not to get ban happy, especially if you weren't the victim of anything.
Not going to happen, this game got all serious and people got all vengeful. I think its the multiplier that changed the mentality from 'eh, shit happens' to 'oh my god imma ban yo ass'.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: rustyspoon on April 01, 2012, 05:40:43 pm
I agree. People spend WAY too much time giving a shit about what other people are doing.

Not going to happen, this game got all serious and people got all vengeful. I think its the multiplier that changed the mentality from 'eh, shit happens' to 'oh my god imma ban yo ass'.

This too.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Grumbs on April 01, 2012, 05:51:11 pm
Snitches get stitches!

Really though, rules are there to encourage people to play in a way that benefits the majority. If people breaks a rule and theres no impact on the players then it doesn't matter. Thats the instance when someone would be snitching - trying to get someone banned just because they think they have an angle to come from rather than because of the activity done itself.

But you shouldn't assume all people who report others are snitches or that people breaking rules aren't really harming anyone. It all depends on the particular situation. Valour farming by having zero interest in your team, going into a corner and then wasting people's time at the end DOES have an impact on the majority on the server, so that sort of stuff should be reported and that would not be snitching at all. So it depends on the context and particular situation, and I'm glad we have active admins and people that respect the rules to the point were they will report players if the end result benefits the majority (discouraging the behaviour)
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Miley on April 01, 2012, 06:37:26 pm
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Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Christo on April 01, 2012, 06:42:41 pm
I think its the multiplier that changed the mentality from 'eh, shit happens' to 'oh my god imma ban yo ass'.

I have to agree.

This multiplier/tick per minute system changed the game a lot, made it way more frustrating.

Sure it was a decision that had to be made, but it's not doing good for the mod in my opinion.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: a_bear_irl on April 01, 2012, 06:52:20 pm
the problem is the ban request forum, it has no redeeming qualities and is pretty much only used by spergs who get pissed off at someone troling them in chat or whatever and spec that person until they catch them breaking a rule.

delete the ban request forums or make them for unban requests only, because HEY THREE DAYS AGO THIS HAPPENED BAN HIM FOR IT NOW is really stupid
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Entaro on April 01, 2012, 07:44:50 pm
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we should remove the method of reporting buttfuck trolls who exist solely to screw up the game for others. I just believe we should all take a breather, relax, and try not to get ban happy.

Good post, I agree with ya.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Digglez on April 01, 2012, 11:47:36 pm
Need snitches because anti-griefing design is quite lacking.  Other mods prevent griefing with much stricter game design
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: RandomDude on April 01, 2012, 11:57:39 pm
Well dont get me wrong, less work is kinda welcome but if i was a player without admin powers, id be pretty pissed off when some guy griefed me or trolled me w/e and I couldnt do anything about it.

Players put ban requests in bcos they want sone justice and fair play, sometimes they are idiots too, but im happy to punish the requester.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: 22nd_King_Plazek on April 02, 2012, 12:33:04 am
It is the admins job, if you do not want the work then why be an admin.

Leaving these things in the hands of the general playerbase just leads to bullshit like griefing people by afk reporting them in combat etc.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Chris_P_Bacon on April 02, 2012, 12:43:09 am
It is the admins job, if you do not want the work then why be an admin.

Leaving these things in the hands of the general playerbase just leads to bullshit like griefing people by afk reporting them in combat etc.
Admins aren't omnipotent. Once you've been around for long enough and you know who all the admins are it's very easy to be a right off pain in the ass when no admins are looking. The ability that the playerbase has to report (note that reporting literally does nothing unless there is enough proof to act) people who are breaking the rules simply makes the game a better place.
The removal of the ban request forums would be similar to telling a citizen of a country that they weren't allowed to call the cops if they saw someone commit a crime. Obviously real life crime is a bigger deal, but it's the same exact concept.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Tears of Destiny on April 02, 2012, 12:52:34 am
tl;dr: Relax, play the game, and don't worry about getting people banned.

Don't spoil my fun and I won't worry.

*shrugs*
Well dont get me wrong, less work is kinda welcome but if i was a player without admin powers, id be pretty pissed off when some guy griefed me or trolled me w/e and I couldnt do anything about it.

Players put ban requests in bcos they want sone justice and fair play, sometimes they are idiots too, but im happy to punish the requester.
+1
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: AntiBlitz on April 02, 2012, 01:36:59 am
Need snitches because anti-griefing design is quite lacking.  Other mods prevent griefing with much stricter game design

speaking of snitches......................

let me just point out a lil something to you all, some of you seem to have this urge, this drive to want to be something you are not.  Its like a mall cop who thinks he is a real cop.  Your vigilante work is appreciated at times, but the majority of you are like the fuckin whiners and complainers of our game.  As proof to your urges and needs, let me just point out these statistics, honestly quite sad..........

In the following links gaze your eyes to the right lower corner and look at the activity, please note where these individuals seem to spend most of their time, quite shocking isnt it.
Digglez
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php?action=profile;area=statistics;u=5880
Idlewood
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php?action=profile;area=statistics;u=14294
Tank Burner
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php?action=profile;area=statistics;u=6659
Lt Anders - he isnt quite as bad, tho still man chill the fuck out, never met a guy who is so into seeing people banned constantly.
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php?action=profile;area=statistics;u=178
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Swaggart on April 02, 2012, 01:40:57 am
Like I said in the original post, if someone's being a total douche of course you should report. When you're fishing for a ban just because you don't like the person/clan it ruins the community.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Chris_P_Bacon on April 02, 2012, 02:17:02 am
speaking of snitches......................

let me just point out a lil something to you all, some of you seem to have this urge, this drive to want to be something you are not.  Its like a mall cop who thinks he is a real cop.  Your vigilante work is appreciated at times, but the majority of you are like the fuckin whiners and complainers of our game.  As proof to your urges and needs, let me just point out these statistics, honestly quite sad..........

In the following links gaze your eyes to the right lower corner and look at the activity, please note where these individuals seem to spend most of their time, quite shocking isnt it.
Digglez
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php?action=profile;area=statistics;u=5880
Idlewood
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php?action=profile;area=statistics;u=14294
Tank Burner
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php?action=profile;area=statistics;u=6659
Lt Anders - he isnt quite as bad, tho still man chill the fuck out, never met a guy who is so into seeing people banned constantly.
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php?action=profile;area=statistics;u=178
The only thing this tells me is that these people pay more attention to other players than the standard pub.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Grumbs on April 02, 2012, 02:27:27 am
To be fair the ban/unban area can have some entertaining threads. I want a new autoblock thread
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Jarlek on April 02, 2012, 03:06:53 am
To be fair the ban/unban area can have some entertaining threads. I want a new autoblock thread
+1


OT: I also make a lot of Ban request. Not that many lately, but I'm guessing I make way more than most people. Almost all of them goes through, too. Dunno why, really. Maybe I'm the only one switching through people when I'm dead/waiting to respawn or actually care about taking screens of that guy randomly attacking people at spawn. Now that I think about it, I've made WAY fewer ban requests after the M-report system came...
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: a_bear_irl on April 02, 2012, 03:54:35 am
Need snitches because anti-griefing design is quite lacking.  Other mods prevent griefing with much stricter game design

i have never been griefed by anyone, like the worst that's ever happened is friendly horsebumps, yet you seem to run into it like five times a week. why is this? it's because you're a dumb sperglord who specs anyone who says mean things to him until he catches them breaking a rule.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Malaclypse on April 02, 2012, 03:56:29 am
I've made a few out of rage when they've directly pertained to me (being repeatedly intentionally teamwounded or killed).
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Slamz on April 02, 2012, 04:23:20 am
Probably the best game system for dealing with problem children was Planetside, with their automatic TW detection system.  Basically intentional teamwounding (or really careless gameplay) resulted in the offending party getting shut down quickly.  The "M" report system is a decent measure but cRPG still relies on admins for basically everything.

I agree that you don't start frivolous ban threads.  You start well documented ban threads, preferably with video.  FRAPS: look into it!


Some say the community has gotten "serious".

I say a lot of people have really really shitty senses of humor.  They are the kind of people who flatten all your car tires and toilet paper your house in the rain and then egg your car on a sunny day and pour bleach into your gas tank because to them, that's just the height of hilarity.  "Dude, it's not hurting anyone, it's funny!"  No, you just have a shitty sense of humor.  Protip: if the only person who thinks something funny is you, it's probably not that funny.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: a_bear_irl on April 02, 2012, 04:26:14 am
tell me more about how you can't tell the difference between IRL property damage/vandalism and being hit by a teammate in a videogame
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: RibaldRon on April 02, 2012, 04:31:46 am
I think the Ban Request section is  certainly useful HOWEVER I do think a lot of the people in the community use it to lash out at one another.

That's just a result of people taking this way too seriously.  I find it to be humorous.



I have only ever posted one ban request, and it was for a guy who over the span of several maps was opening the gate (as defenders) and TKing people.  He was treating the 5 warnings as his allowance, and TK'd his friends who did not [M] him.  That pretty much ruined everyone's game.  Defenders loved  the free multi until they got autobalanced onto the losing team cause of GTXters.  :rolleyes:

For the most part I think it's all pretty harmless.  Accidents happen, no reason to hold a grudge or OMG THIS GUY IN CHAOS IS PURPOSEFULL TW'ING ME!  It's purposeful  BECAUSE HE'S IN CHAOS and friends with all the admins!!  Yeah great logic.


TL;DR Ban section has a use, but I agree that people often use it as a tool to get "revenge" on somebody they dislike and that's just a bit sad.  Fortunately, we do have smart admins who review the cases, and sometimes even ban the OPs for instigating the response from people.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: oprah_winfrey on April 02, 2012, 04:32:51 am
Considering most of the requests are from like two clans (NH/DL and KUTT) maybe it is you guys that have a shitty sense of humor.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: EyeBeat on April 02, 2012, 05:58:27 am
The ban request section will never go away.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Crazyi on April 02, 2012, 07:41:33 am
Most of the ban requests are from two clans? Do those clans have any admins? What clans never post and have a swarm of admins? How very odd.

Antiblitz you do understand the contradicting nature of your post correct? You hate snitches you say?

So what should people do when some idiot decides to TK them intentionally? Smile and say thank you? The "M" report is beyond retarded. You can hit people five times before it kicks you, taking a whole few seconds to get back on. Oh noes. You think some one is going to push 5/5 if they have a multiplier to lose? I've seen certain people get completely careless when their team is losing. Why? No repercussion. I have yet to hit 5/5 in 6 generations, 3 of which are cav. To get 5/5 you should be banned for an hour.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: SuperNewb on April 02, 2012, 08:09:53 am
Most of the ban requests are from two clans? Do those clans have any admins? What clans never post and have a swarm of admins? How very odd.

Antiblitz you do understand the contradicting nature of your post correct? You hate snitches you say?

So what should people do when some idiot decides to TK them intentionally? Smile and say thank you? The "M" report is beyond retarded. You can hit people five times before it kicks you, taking a whole few seconds to get back on. Oh noes. You think some one is going to push 5/5 if they have a multiplier to lose? I've seen certain people get completely careless when their team is losing. Why? No repercussion. I have yet to hit 5/5 in 6 generations, 3 of which are cav. To get 5/5 you should be banned for an hour.

AntiBlitz... you missed one.  :lol:
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Slamz on April 02, 2012, 08:28:25 am
tell me more about how you can't tell the difference between IRL property damage/vandalism and being hit by a teammate in a videogame

And that's certainly the start of the "problem attitude".

It's a game.

What I think most people like to do in games is have fun and maybe compete.  When some teammate keeps kicking your crossbowman every time you go to reload, or kicks teammates off of ladders or rides around knocking down every friendly they can see, you don't get to just say "It's just a game" as if that was some magical license to be an asshat.


Funny to me:
Hitting an enemy in the face with a throwing axe.

Funny to you:
Kicking a teammate to his death off of a wall.

There is a subtle but important difference in these two actions, even though they both take place in "just a game".  Until you figure out the difference, you're probably going to be one of those people constantly having problems with "snitches".
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: rustyspoon on April 02, 2012, 02:15:46 pm
It does seem like a lot of people here go out purposefully to find rule breakers. If you listen to the people in this thread, it sounds like every time they play half of the people are breaking rules or trolling or whatever.

Hell, in all the time I've played I've never run into somebody who ruined my game.

Just makes me think that all the people finding trouble are the ones looking for it.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Memento_Mori on April 02, 2012, 03:15:19 pm
I would just like to be one of the people to thank you (the snitches) for doing what I cannot be assed to do which is screen shot and actually post on the ban forums to give the actual griefing assholes a nice break from the game. So thank you.

I do agree with the OP though, less serious business would be nice. G'day.

Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Kreczor on April 02, 2012, 03:20:00 pm
I swear, most of the time I'm in the ban/unban section it's because I'm offering a third-party look into the ban.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: BADPLAYERold on April 02, 2012, 03:22:38 pm
I could get any person banned by just watching them for a day and taking ambiguous screenshots to make it look like they are griefing. That is why I don't like the current system of ban requests cause it is so open to abuse.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: oprah_winfrey on April 02, 2012, 04:00:09 pm
I think most people believe the banned section should exist for actual griefers, but not for every little thing that occurs in game. Oh look this guy punched me 3 times at the end of a round and did 1/100th of my health when it was 20v1, better screenshot the chatlog and post it on the forums so he gets banned. THAT WILL SHOW HIM!
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: SixThumbs on April 02, 2012, 05:13:22 pm

Funny to me:
Hitting an enemy in the face with a throwing axe.

Funny to you:
Kicking a teammate to his death off of a wall.


Actually, when the opportunity arises, kicking players off high ledges is always funny. But seriously, in all my thousands of hours of play time I cannot recall any specific time where a player messing around has hindered my enjoyment or wasn't dealt with in the span of a map or two.

I would just like to be one of the people to thank you (the snitches) for doing what I cannot be assed to do which is screen shot and actually post on the ban forums to give the actual griefing assholes a nice break from the game. So thank you.

I do agree with the OP though, less serious business would be nice. G'day.


Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: a_bear_irl on April 02, 2012, 06:37:14 pm

Funny to me:
Hitting an enemy in the face with a throwing axe.

Funny to you:
Kicking a teammate to his death off of a wall.

There is a subtle but important difference in these two actions, even though they both take place in "just a game".  Until you figure out the difference, you're probably going to be one of those people constantly having problems with "snitches".

everyone can agree kicking someone off of a high place is always funny, if you don't agree you have no sense of humor real talk

anyway, the thing is that actual griefing is really rare in crpg. i'm gen 11 and i can think of maybe 2-3 times someone was persistent/annoying enough for me to take screenshots of it, and i've never posted a ban request. you on the other hand seem to run into it thrice weekly. what i'm saying here is that the vast majority of the population has no "griefer problem", it's only a couple sperglords who get mad every time someone calls them a name ingame - you and anders are the most notable
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Lt_Anders on April 02, 2012, 07:26:59 pm
So what is my point you say? As long as there is a way to snitch people, as crpg has with the ban request threads, it will lead to hard feelings and will eventually foster bitter people who couldn't give two shits about the other person playing the game.

I'm going to use an example that I saw today, and I'm in no way trying to start a trial by forum here, but the thread were Lt Anders requests a ban because some Chaos members were allegedly valour farming. I'm not even sure how you can prove that, but what I'm more concerned about is why Anders would go through the trouble of wanting a ban when he himself wasn't even a victim of anything.

Actually, i was on their team, and having 3 members hide and not help hurts your team, especially when one has a ranged weapon and both are decent in melee. Also, i only wanted 2 of them warned, Jar, who CLEARLY went out of bounds using a seige sheild was the only one who was banned.

I'm just picky about 2 things, and those are: tks and leeching(valour farming, w/e you wanna call it) cause they RUIN your team by having (often) good members sit somewhere and do NOTHING.(or someone removing a player from playing in the case of a tk) Neither helps your team.

Also, at Anti, I only play when others are on(usually), though play by myself occasionally.(I don't make a lot of ban threads, i did post a lot though in threads providing evidence or another look at things.)

Please use mine as an example. I do not mind. I perfer not to comment all that often here cause it's a pain.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: MrShine on April 02, 2012, 07:37:45 pm
First off: snitch culture what are we kindergarteners?  If you do something wrong and get banned, raging at the people who got you banned is about as immature as you can get.  Being a snitch - when the need arises - is a good thing.  If you are doing something against the rules and someone reports you but you rage at them instead of accepting the consequences, fuck you.   

Second: Some people seem to love to run to the ban forums at the first possible chance - that I do agree is pretty lousy and given the small community we all know who these people are.

Compared to some of the other 'ban-fans' [trademark] Anders isn't really that bad. Algaroth & Epoch for example seem to spam the ban forums with drivel on a regular basis.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Oberyn on April 02, 2012, 07:37:52 pm
Why are there whining cunts who cry about people breaking the rules getting their due? Fucking retards crying about "snitching", yes you dumb fucks we can't have an admin watching over your childish asses 24/7, just because there is no admin on a server doesn't mean you suddenly get to break the rules and get away with it.
You know something about the "vast majority" of the crpg population? They never get banned. Not once. Tell me bear, how many fucking times have you gotten banned? Kicked? Muted on the forums? Muted ingame? Godamn retard. People like you are the reason there's a ban request forum in the first place.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Oberyn on April 02, 2012, 07:40:11 pm
I could get any person banned by just watching them for a day and taking ambiguous screenshots to make it look like they are griefing. That is why I don't like the current system of ban requests cause it is so open to abuse.

Really? Do it then. Go ahead. Pick some guy who's never gotten banned before, and do it. Of course it won't work because it's a fucking retarded idea and the ultimate decision is up to admins, who have access to the logs and check them.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Crazyi on April 02, 2012, 09:14:11 pm
Actually, when the opportunity arises, kicking players off high ledges is always funny. But seriously, in all my thousands of hours of play time I cannot recall any specific time where a player messing around has hindered my enjoyment or wasn't dealt with in the span of a map or two.

I was kicked off the bridge in Mountain Warfare. Karma said "Please don't do that". Now I have nothing against him, as he does usually take the lighter side but it is still quite irritating as a player when I have been banned for less. I still have the screenshot but I decided it wasn't even worth posting. I would be accused of being the aggressor and recieve a ban myself. I think some assigned range of punishment should be created so it would seem more fair when admins rule. The fact that they can do whatever they wish is pretty crazy. Imagine if the courts could sentance you to death for theft, because they thought it was "serious theft". (just FYI, to recieve a death penalty is has to be Capital murder, which is murder + another crime)
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: SixThumbs on April 02, 2012, 09:41:37 pm
Well, a degree of favortism is apparent in all aspects of life and probably more so in things as trivial and mostly anonymous as this game. I also have been banned in what I felt was an erroneous manner and then had the thread locked with no rebuttal.

Whatever's clever is totally whatever.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Canary on April 02, 2012, 09:44:06 pm
I was kicked off the bridge in Mountain Warfare. Karma said "Please don't do that". Now I have nothing against him, as he does usually take the lighter side but it is still quite irritating as a player when I have been banned for less.

Here is a major problem with ban requests, and why I'm not a fan of the frivolous use of ban requests we've been seeing a lot of lately. Something that merits a warning as-it-happens in-game necessitates a ban sometimes because of the way the system plays out, particularly when you're not sure a forum warning would actually reach the player who the warning is intended for.

I still have the screenshot but I decided it wasn't even worth posting. I would be accused of being the aggressor and recieve a ban myself.

I also hope that past experiences with admins won't embitter people to the entire group of admins, or the process we use to enforce the rules. Anyone who makes a ban request gets their request looked into, even if we know they've had a history of dubious requests and personal vendettas. If you've done nothing wrong, you won't be punished for anything.

I think some assigned range of punishment should be created so it would seem more fair when admins rule. The fact that they can do whatever they wish is pretty crazy.

This has been brought up before, and is a constant discussion, I think. In the end, though, the rigid system has the same potential to play out for the worse. It might be just as bullshit or moreso if the powers that be decided on egregiously large punishments for minor infractions from the start, or even no-tolerance policies for things that now would not even get you a 24-hour ban if the admin was there to witness it in-game. Or, the reverse, total leniency, regardless of the number of offenses, treating major rulebreaking the same as something as (relatively) harmless as chat abuse, and letting anyone who's banned have another chance without second thought or delay.


Well, a degree of favortism is apparent in all aspects of life and probably more so in things as trivial and mostly anonymous as this game. I also have been banned in what I felt was an erroneous manner and then had the thread locked with no rebuttal.

When this happens, the next step for you is to make an unban request, where you can have your say and bring the discussion back up with a chance of easing the penalty. Alternatively you can try PMing the admin who issued the ban and discuss it privately, or ask them to re-review the case with the rest of the team.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Slamz on April 02, 2012, 09:51:45 pm
It does seem like a lot of people here go out purposefully to find rule breakers.

Yes.

Me.

I have FRAPS and I will (http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,28277.msg413116.html#msg413116) use (http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,20461.msg291334.html#msg291334) it (http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,19491.msg278001.html#msg278001).

I think I've posted 4 ban requests since October and 3 of them had FRAPS footage for evidence.  Really, by the time I have fired up FRAPS and started recording and still managed to catch something, you had to be doing something pretty bad.  It's not like I sit around running FRAPS all the time.  But some people don't know when to quit.

And nothing of value was lost.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: SixThumbs on April 02, 2012, 09:57:51 pm
When this happens, the next step for you is to make an unban request, where you can have your say and bring the discussion back up with a chance of easing the penalty. Alternatively you can try PMing the admin who issued the ban and discuss it privately, or ask them to re-review the case with the rest of the team.

I think it was in the unban thread but basically I argued with the admins for about 20 minutes and basically got "deal with it", no response when I mentioned the chat log or direct rebuttal for my defense and then I dealt with it and did something else.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Swaggart on April 02, 2012, 10:03:48 pm
I think the intent of this thread is lost on some people.

In the end, this is a game meant to be enjoyed. I, and I'm sure many other players, find enjoyment playing the game. I have been intentionally teamkilled on more than one occasion but I didn't do anything about it. Why you may ask? Because this is a game. The next round started, I started playing again and had fun. Was it fun for me to be teamkilled? No, but it wasn't enough to ruin my experience. I don't have fraps running nor do I have screenshots. I'm simply not emotionally invested enough into this game to give two shits if a 13 year old wants to ruin my fun (that's how they win after all). Now, if someone was being a sperg round after round then yes perhaps I would be. Or maybe I'd just do something else since this isn't the be all end all of my having fun time.

People just need to chill the fuck out and focus on playing the game, rather than being vigilantes. If someone leeched one round, two rounds, three rounds, does it really ruin your experience? If it does, perhaps there are bigger issues than that person.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Swaggart on April 02, 2012, 10:07:14 pm
Also, Aaron Rogers sucks.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on April 02, 2012, 10:09:12 pm
First off: snitch culture what are we kindergarteners?  If you do something wrong and get banned, raging at the people who got you banned is about as immature as you can get.  Being a snitch - when the need arises - is a good thing.  If you are doing something against the rules and someone reports you but you rage at them instead of accepting the consequences, fuck you.   

Second: Some people seem to love to run to the ban forums at the first possible chance - that I do agree is pretty lousy and given the small community we all know who these people are.

Compared to some of the other 'ban-fans' [trademark] Anders isn't really that bad. Algaroth & Epoch for example seem to spam the ban forums with drivel on a regular basis.

You live in Wisconsin?  My god man, you should probably run for governor.  Seem like one of the only intelligent people from that state (at least if I'm going by the recent legislation that has been passed).

MrShine for guvna

Really? Do it then. Go ahead. Pick some guy who's never gotten banned before, and do it. Of course it won't work because it's a fucking retarded idea and the ultimate decision is up to admins, who have access to the logs and check them.

Yeah seriously, I'd like Badplayer to try and do that to me.  I've never been banned, want to know why?  Because I'm not an idiot who constantly tries to bend the rules, and I'm not an idiot who rages and does things I'd later regret (well not in game anyways  :oops: ).
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Oberyn on April 02, 2012, 10:10:32 pm
I more or less approach it the same way, I don't think I've ever made a ban request. I've gotten warned a couple of times for gloating in some unban threads, but thats the extent of my use of those forums.
But I really don't give a flying fuck if the people reporting those who break the rules have personal vendettas or not. If you get banned as the result of a player report, you would've gotten the same treatment had an admin been there to personally witness it. Lesson? Don't fucking break the rules. Then you won't have to be afraid of evil "vigilantes" reporting you because they don't like you.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Crazyi on April 02, 2012, 10:12:42 pm
So I shouldn't be bitter about when I am kicked off a bridge from full health and die. The guy that kicks me says "I just couldn't resist". The admins replies,"Please don't do that".  When two weeks ago, I recieve a 4 hour ban when I requested a ban from being TK'd by a person I didn't even kick.  No admin was present and ASSUMES that my kicks were malicious and I instigated ANOTHER person killing me. 0 damage was done from my kicks, no shit talking in logs. Tell me why I shouldn't be upset. It was you who posted in that thread to NEVER KICK ANYONE. I was naked, playing, and LLJK_ImPanda kicks me twice in spawn, both of which I reported, and what did you say Canary? Do you remember? "Please don't do that". Tell me again, why should I not be bitter?

Is it wrong to ask for a certain level of equality? There is NO PROCESS to enforcing these rules, and thats why I am pissed. Smooth handled the situation completely wrong and instigated I was the aggressor and even assumed Sigvard was cav and bumped/slashed me, and that I was kicking some guy reloading a crossbow. Once again, tell me why I shouldnt be upset?

Thats why I say a penalty range. Intentional TK 24hr-week based on situation and regular occurance. Kicking to grief, 1hr - 24hr. So when the above situations happen and one gets a warning, and the other a 4 hour ban is doesn't piss people off. I see kicking some one with full armor a few times less severe than kicking some one off a bridge and killing them. Apparently not all admins see it that way and once again that is what irritates me. If you are aware of the level of punishment, people will stray away from getting to that point. Right now it seems if you are a senior member of the community, you can get away with murder. If you are newer to the game, you get banned for minor infractions. The only one wrong thing I've EVER done was intetionally TK Badplayer after he trampled me and ran his mouth. Ecko ruled and I agreed with his ruling and shut up. The ban request with Sigvard was 100% BULLSHIT. Since then I only see blatant favortism or total lack of consistentcy between the enforcing administrators.

I am harased every day in game, and I can't even get certain admins to speak up. Horse doubleover head killed in spawn, certain admin says nothing. They need to rule on everyone, or for no one.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on April 02, 2012, 10:14:01 pm
True dat, there should be consistency in regards to what rule was broken, and what happens on each subsequent offense...
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Swaggart on April 02, 2012, 10:14:49 pm
I haven't been reported or even warned for anything ever so I'm not sure where you're coming from.

As far as being guilty by association or guilty by reputation, you'd be surprised how something innocuous and victimless becomes a murder one charge to some people.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Oberyn on April 02, 2012, 10:18:32 pm
I haven't been reported or even warned for anything ever so I'm not sure where you're coming from.

As far as being guilty by association or guilty by reputation, you'd be surprised how something innocuous and victimless becomes a murder one charge to some people.

If that's directed at my comments, the "you" in there was more of a general example, not adressed at you personally.  :o
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: gazda on April 02, 2012, 10:35:26 pm
revert back to no upkeep, everyone will have everything that they want, everything would be unbalanced, everyone would be op, everyone would be happy, people could return to playing game because they want to have fun, not because they need to grind some money/exp
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Crazyi on April 02, 2012, 10:38:21 pm
Oh and if there was a structure/procedure to how things were ruled, you could actually make counter arguments to admin bias. Decision making is largely weighed upon past experiences and your personal morals. If you can ignore what is ingrained into your being, concious and subconcious, then there would not need to be a structure. I have enough knowledge of psychology to know that is near impossible. Every nation has a structure in place with some flexibility to how it is finally ruled upon.  If a structure isn't imposed I would like to suggest having EU admins rule over NA ban boards, and vice versa. That would limit the level personal feelings and clout.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Allers on April 02, 2012, 10:38:57 pm
i agree with swaggart also

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Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: MrShine on April 02, 2012, 11:03:42 pm
Also, Aaron Rogers sucks.

how dare you

You live in Wisconsin?  My god man, you should probably run for governor.  Seem like one of the only intelligent people from that state (at least if I'm going by the recent legislation that has been passed).

MrShine for guvna

Well we're a pretty smart state for the most part (not if Scott Walker has his way with the massive education budget cuts though)

But anyways I don't think I'd get much financial support from the slacker demographic to run a successful campaign :wink:
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Canary on April 03, 2012, 12:32:12 am
When two weeks ago, I recieve a 4 hour ban when I requested a ban from being TK'd by a person I didn't even kick.  No admin was present and ASSUMES that my kicks were malicious and I instigated ANOTHER person killing me. 0 damage was done from my kicks, no shit talking in logs. Tell me why I shouldn't be upset. It was you who posted in that thread to NEVER KICK ANYONE.

Precisely, no admin was present. Smoothrich started asking for more information and you were reluctant to give it out and became instantly belligerent because of a situation that happened when an admin was on to properly police. You blamed him for being biased because he had to ask for details about the situation instead of just banning the guy based on one piece of evidence. If you're not going to readily say what happened in details, you shouldn't have been so hard on him making presumptions.

Malicious or not, people don't generally like being kicked. If you do it intentionally, then you're going against the rules. The reason it slides so much is because of the infrequency of reports and the small impact it has on the game (in comparison to intentional teamwounding). It's a similar situation to teamkilling after a round ends, it's against the rules, but mostly only when someone complains about it. Obviously it's different if you're kicked off of a high place, however, and especially if you die from it.

There wasn't any doubt that you had kicked someone, and as if you recall, the guy you kicked spoke up in one of the additional threads you posted and wasn't pleased by what you'd done. Other people were around to elaborate on the situation as well.


So I shouldn't be bitter about when I am kicked off a bridge from full health and die. The guy that kicks me says "I just couldn't resist". The admins replies,"Please don't do that". 
I was naked, playing, and LLJK_ImPanda kicks me twice in spawn, both of which I reported, and what did you say Canary? Do you remember? "Please don't do that".

So it seems like what you're suggesting then and now is that admins should punish people based on reports only, and without evidence the admins actually observe. This is exactly contradictory to what you're so mad at Smoothrich about. We can't just punish people based on one report and assume it's legitimate, and it's procedure to issue a warning, regardless. Like I said in my previous post, that's why I dislike the prevalence of ban requests: A lot of things that merit a warning receive bans as punishment because of the way the system works.

We start with a warning, such as what you quoted. This is the case in situations we don't witness ourselves but are merely reported to us.

Is it wrong to ask for a certain level of equality?

Not at all, assuming the situations are also equal. Having more information makes a lot of difference.

There is NO PROCESS to enforcing these rules, and thats why I am pissed. Smooth handled the situation completely wrong and instigated I was the aggressor and even assumed Sigvard was cav and bumped/slashed me, and that I was kicking some guy reloading a crossbow.

He posited a theory about the situation which you denied. You didn't present any other information about what happened, so he was forced to make further assumptions. When asked for more information, you literally said "What does it matter" and refused to speak up about the circumstances, instead beginning your prolonged haranguing of Smoothrich's decision-making (which was hard for him to make with so little input!). I say it was you who began handling the situation completely wrong, and while two wrongs may not make a right, Smoothrich didn't have anything to go on because you refused to tell him more. I don't think it's reasonable to blame him for being snarky when you instantly started out by raising a stink over his judgment.

Don't say there's NO PROCESS just because you don't like the way the process works.

Thats why I say a penalty range. Intentional TK 24hr-week based on situation and regular occurance. Kicking to grief, 1hr - 24hr. So when the above situations happen and one gets a warning, and the other a 4 hour ban is doesn't piss people off. I see kicking some one with full armor a few times less severe than kicking some one off a bridge and killing them. Apparently not all admins see it that way and once again that is what irritates me. If you are aware of the level of punishment, people will stray away from getting to that point. Right now it seems if you are a senior member of the community, you can get away with murder. If you are newer to the game, you get banned for minor infractions. The only one wrong thing I've EVER done was intetionally TK Badplayer after he trampled me and ran his mouth. Ecko ruled and I agreed with his ruling and shut up. The ban request with Sigvard was 100% BULLSHIT. Since then I only see blatant favortism or total lack of consistentcy between the enforcing administrators.

The reason why a lot of things seem disproportionate is that we can't witness every single action undertaken by every single player on a constant basis. There are times when there isn't a single admin online, let alone one to spectate each player on a server!

Despite what you think, we try to coordinate our actions and maintain consistency between punishments, but not every situation is equal, even when the same rule is being broken. This necessitates the admin at-hand using their discretion, even if there was a hard and fast set of punishments as a rule instead of just a guideline.

I'm glad that people like you aren't in charge of the means and amount of punishment people receive, as it seems you're for instantly banning a first-time small infraction for an entire week based only on hearsay and deny that someone would be upset by you repeatedly kicking them (since your intent wasn't "malicious" as you're keen to repeat).

You're more inconsistent than we are, from what I've seen.

I am harased every day in game, and I can't even get certain admins to speak up. Horse doubleover head killed in spawn, certain admin says nothing. They need to rule on everyone, or for no one.

We can't constantly spectate one player over the course of every hour you're online and playing. The best we can do is watch out for problems and trouble-makers and respond with warnings to reports of misdeeds without witnessing them, handing out punishment when we see these misdeeds, and go into spectator to watch for repeat behavior, or to answer ban requests (given sufficient information) and go over the server logs where necessary on the appropriate forum board.

They certainly don't need to rule on everyone if they don't see something happening. The moment we begin to enforce rules based only on reports is the moment a false reports gets an innocent player punished. You can hardly blame admins for taking your reports with a grain of salt, Crazyi, after you began a thread by harassing and hurling accusations at one of the admins who was trying to answer your request. And anyway, just because someone doesn't speak up doesn't mean they're not doing anything (though if someone's looking into things I suppose speaking up couldn't hurt either).


I do agree that we can improve on the consistency of punishment, but using your own example consequences, how different would that be from how things happen now? You got a short ban, Sigvard got a long ban.


I feel like the admin team is trying to do more and more, and the playerbase is appreciating it less and less.

Tell me why I shouldn't be upset.
Tell me again, why should I not be bitter.
Once again, tell me why I shouldnt be upset?

Because this is a video game that people should be playing for enjoyment.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Crazyi on April 03, 2012, 02:21:10 am
So people I don't know say he was out of line, and only people he knows supported his process. I think you need to re-read that thread, all of it. It was a blatant TK as shown by the chat logs. Also a member of KUTT said "really?", as one would say in awe of what just happened. First Smooth ignores the active chat, I guess I should highlight things for you guys? Second, instead of saying ok he is banned for blatantly TKing you but who were you kicking, he starts to question me and assume a lot of information. Is that in this process you refer to, assume information not present? So he doesn't believe me, but yet he wants the full story form the person he doesn't believe? If you want to sit there and say well we can't punish people on one report, then LOOK IN THE FUCKING LOGS instead of questioning my integrity OR approach it from a neutral position(ie "Ok he is banned for TKing you but explain who was kicking who and why").  Yet you want to sit here and say "well you went on the defensive".  NO SHIT?!

Also you also say "well kicking slides so often" and "it has little impact on the game" yet his first response is to question the kicking being mentioned in the chat log versus dealing with the blatant TK. Once again, here you are wondering why I got so defensive?!  I don't give a fuck if people kick me unless it is harming me either, so yes I got defensive. You are being MASSIVELY contradicting right now.

The guy I actually kicked lied, saying "you guys actually hurt me" when I know GranPappy searched the logs and found NOTHING. He wants to say he took 2 crossbow bolts from the HX that can 2shot me in high end medium armor with 5 IF. Yet he claims he was and getting hurt by our kicks? Sure that TOTALLY adds up as well. He also had a shield on so he wasn't str stacking to live through the bolts. Could he possibly hit the M button, take screens, and get me banned? Instead it somehow provokes his teammate to TK me.

Ban people without evidence? Canary when you TW it SHOWS IT TO THE SERVER. 30s in a round, 2 TW reports pop up and you want to say there is no evidence? When I was kicked off the bridge it showed a teamate headshotting me, and in chat he says "SORRY I COULDNT RESIST". But NO THATS NOT EVIDENCE. What the FUCK are you looking for then? So situations where an admin is present always dictate a warning first? Why was I not warned when I TK'd badplayer? I was instantly banned without warning, and smooth saw the whole thing.
 
" I'm glad that people like you aren't in charge of the means and amount of punishment people receive, as it seems you're for instantly banning a first-time small infraction for an entire week based only on hearsay and deny that someone would be upset by you repeatedly kicking them"


Excuse me? I didn't know asking for bans when being intentionally TK'd was overkill. Where am I asking for a week ban anywhere? I wouldn't be offended if someone kicked me 3x in a closed building with full armor on, no. Now if they kicked me off of a bridge, yes I would be. If they kicked me out into the enemy infantry, I would be. If it had harmed me in any way, I may be offended. Once again, Granpappy checked the logs, your little friend is a liar so maybe you need to check your own company.

I'm not asking for you to police constantly but when something as blatant as kicking/killing a player off the bridge and saying "I COULDNT RESIST" or two TWs pop up in the first 30 seconds of a map, yes I think something other than a warning needs to be issued. What is that inconsistent with what I've asked? How is that not blatant evidence of griefing? Also I want to see this official process if you want to PM it to me.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Canary on April 03, 2012, 04:31:33 am
So people I don't know say he was out of line, and only people he knows supported his process. I think you need to re-read that thread, all of it. It was a blatant TK as shown by the chat logs. Also a member of KUTT said "really?", as one would say in awe of what just happened. First Smooth ignores the active chat, I guess I should highlight things for you guys? Second, instead of saying ok he is banned for blatantly TKing you but who were you kicking, he starts to question me and assume a lot of information.

While indicative of teamkilling behavior, it wasn't necessarily condemning. I don't see how you can be so appalled by an admin actually trying to uncover more facts before issuing a punishment.

I did re-read that thread. The chat logs show intent, sure, but your screenshot was small and difficult to read, you can't assume Smoothrich can actually see that well, he's an old fogey, you're the one assuming information now!*

*this was a joke, sorry

Is that in this process you refer to, assume information not present? So he doesn't believe me, but yet he wants the full story form the person he doesn't believe?

He could have believed you up until you refused to present information and started your accusations. At first, all that could be seen was a screenshot of Sigvard teamwounding you twice (the second one killing you), Sigvard saying "quit kicking him you fuck" barely legible (which could have happened any time after you had the chat log open, since it isn't scrolled properly.), and you saying "Intentional TK." and nothing else in the thread.

He errs on the side of caution, says something as an example of what might have happened and you immediately took an incredulous stance to the way Smoothrich was handling the situation. His next statement was merely a question about the incident and you refuse to answer it while insisting it's the same as a previous experience you'd had where you were the one breaking the rules (which an admin was online to witness) on another server.

This is where Smoothrich returns your attitude to you, and you start to accuse him of being biased. You start (and continue without ceasing) to say he assumes information, but you've been the one withholding it the whole time. The hell do you expect?

If you want to sit there and say well we can't punish people on one report, then LOOK IN THE FUCKING LOGS instead of questioning my integrity OR approach it from a neutral position(ie "Ok he is banned for TKing you but explain who was kicking who and why").  Yet you want to sit here and say "well you went on the defensive".  NO SHIT?!

The logs aren't updated constantly for the NA admins. We can't check them constantly since they might not be up to date. I'm fairly certain that approaching it from a neutral position isn't to assume guilt just because you're so adamant about it, it's to weight both sides of what might have happened and decide it based on evidence, some of which you intentionally refused to give out. You tried to brush off the question "Quit kicking who, exactly?" as if it wasn't pertinent information, when in fact it dealt directly with what had happened. He TKed you because you kicked some guy, that's proof that he was deserving of a ban, not because he had two teamwounds on you and an out of context statement shown together in one screenshot. Your persistent belligerence towards Smoothrich did not help your case.

Also you also say "well kicking slides so often" and "it has little impact on the game" yet his first response is to question the kicking being mentioned in the chat log versus dealing with the blatant TK. Once again, here you are wondering why I got so defensive?!  I don't give a fuck if people kick me unless it is harming me either, so yes I got defensive. You are being MASSIVELY contradicting right now.

It's against the rules, it's against the rules, it's against the rules. You're missing the point of what I said.  I was describing why it can go unchecked. If nobody's complaining about it, we can't always do anything about it. I'm not saying it's okay that it slides, just that when it happens it is hard to notice sometimes.

The guy I actually kicked lied, saying "you guys actually hurt me" when I know GranPappy searched the logs and found NOTHING. He wants to say he took 2 crossbow bolts from the HX that can 2shot me in high end medium armor with 5 IF. Yet he claims he was and getting hurt by our kicks? Sure that TOTALLY adds up as well. He also had a shield on so he wasn't str stacking to live through the bolts. Could he possibly hit the M button, take screens, and get me banned? Instead it somehow provokes his teammate to TK me.

Ban people without evidence? Canary when you TW it SHOWS IT TO THE SERVER. 30s in a round, 2 TW reports pop up and you want to say there is no evidence? When I was kicked off the bridge it showed a teamate headshotting me, and in chat he says "SORRY I COULDNT RESIST". But NO THATS NOT EVIDENCE. What the FUCK are you looking for then? So situations where an admin is present always dictate a warning first? Why was I not warned when I TK'd badplayer? I was instantly banned without warning, and smooth saw the whole thing.

It does not display teamwounds in the logs unless they result in a kill or get reported. Reports do not always display to admins. I had to ask you for a name when you were kicked twice at spawn, and I issued a warning because I couldn't see the reports. I don't know anything about the instance where you got kicked off a bridge. I am also not responsible for the judgments of other admins, though I will defend them, in most cases. It's up to the discretion of an admin what the punishment will be for a particular person in a particular situation based on the severity of the circumstances and the people involved.
 
Excuse me? I didn't know asking for bans when being intentionally TK'd was overkill.

It isn't. Sigvard got banned, in case you forgot.

Where am I asking for a week ban anywhere?

Right here:

Thats why I say a penalty range. Intentional TK 24hr-week based on situation and regular occurance.
I will be in awe if you dont ban him for a week.


I'm not saying that Sigvard's was a small infraction, but it was his first offense. You were subject to different rules when Smoothrich banned you before that because it was on a different server with different rules (and different people in charge of unbanning).

I wouldn't be offended if someone kicked me 3x in a closed building with full armor on, no. Now if they kicked me off of a bridge, yes I would be. If they kicked me out into the enemy infantry, I would be. If it had harmed me in any way, I may be offended. Once again, Granpappy checked the logs, your little friend is a liar so maybe you need to check your own company.

Just because you wouldn't be offended doesn't mean he wasn't. Just because he didn't report the teamwounds doesn't mean they didn't deal damage. Teamwounds don't show up in the logs unless reported or if they result in a kill. At this point it's your word versus his, and I think it's time we stop retreading this specific issue, since it's already been dealt with.

I'm surprised by how scathing your accusations can be, it's no wonder people don't take you as seriously as you'd like.

I'm not asking for you to police constantly but when something as blatant as kicking/killing a player off the bridge and saying "I COULDNT RESIST" or two TWs pop up in the first 30 seconds of a map, yes I think something other than a warning needs to be issued. What is that inconsistent with what I've asked? How is that not blatant evidence of griefing? Also I want to see this official process if you want to PM it to me.

Once more: Teamwound reports don't always show up for admins. I don't know about the incident with the bridge, but the admins available seemed to have handled it (unless that person teamkilled again after being warned).



You don't always give us the evidence we need. You want us to ban people without actually looking into things, apparently, and I for one will not do that. You presume we can do far more than we actually can, and that we see much more than we actually see.

On top of which, we do sometimes like to play the game ourselves, so I apologize if some of your messages to I-chat go unheeded, but it can be hard to respond to every issue in a timely fashion without turning ourselves into leechers.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Thud on April 03, 2012, 04:47:03 am

GET OUTTA MY STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: slimpyman on April 03, 2012, 04:48:27 am
i understand the OP.  to a point, he is right.  But ultimately, the admins must be people who play OFTEN and kind of get acclimated with everyone. being on their team, seeing others mannerisms, etc.  If the admins know generally who enriches the gameplay for others more then harms the gameplay, they can make best ban/unban decisions.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Crazyi on April 03, 2012, 05:15:24 am
I love how you sit there and say kicking isn't a big deal, and when the admin fails to address my post and questions something I also dont feel is a big deal, I am the bad guy for being defensive. Just keep on wondering why less people are appreciating what you are doing.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Rikthor on April 03, 2012, 05:22:52 am
Good god the angry sperging from Crazyi is ridonkulous
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Sergee on April 03, 2012, 05:57:10 am
I don't think id ever be gay enough to take pics and post em on the forums about people doing shit against server rules buncha whiny bitches stop crying and just play
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Canary on April 03, 2012, 06:12:17 am
I love how you sit there and say kicking isn't a big deal, and when the admin fails to address my post and questions something I also dont feel is a big deal, I am the bad guy for being defensive. Just keep on wondering why less people are appreciating what you are doing.

No, you are the bad guy for withholding information. There's a difference between that and "being defensive" as you keep putting it.

Where, precisely, am I saying kicking isn't a big deal? I keep saying it's hard to enforce. Stop telling lies.


Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: SuperNewb on April 03, 2012, 06:20:39 am
I don't think id ever be gay enough to take pics and post em on the forums about people doing shit against server rules buncha whiny bitches stop crying and just play

I never understood putting up ban threads. Did it once, won't ever do it again because I just lost a friend of mine :(
I tend to just look at what armor they have and go kill them if they are on the other team.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: BADPLAYERold on April 03, 2012, 08:04:08 am
I tend to just look at what armor they have and go kill them if they are on the other team.

real men do it when they are on the same team.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Crazyi on April 03, 2012, 08:44:16 am
It's against the rules, it's against the rules, it's against the rules.
Just not in my case. I have to explain the entire situation before intentional TKing is an enforceable rule. Once again if smooth had said "Ok he is banned for intentional TKing, but I want the rest of the story and you may face a ban" that would be just fine. However he choses to ignore what my post is about and become concerned with kicking. If kicking was happening, would that of made the intentional TK invalid? No. "It's against the rules, it's against the rules, it's against the rules." That is why I said what does it matter? If you want a real response, write real paragraph and don't go line by line through the post.

So your friend was level 23, got shot twice by HXers, and then we were damaging him with our kicks? He had a shield too so he wasnt str stacking..... that is one tough level 23. Our kicks did so much it made him mad enough for his friend to TK us but not mad enough to push the M button? You are right he is being totally honest.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Smoothrich on April 03, 2012, 08:59:39 am
you're right crazy its always against the rules EXCEPT IN YOUR CASE WHERE IT ISNT for no reason except because i am biased

crazyi just admit it:  you were plainly and obviously wrong and everyone can see that except you and some people who pretend to be on your side just to see you get riled up and embarrass yourself on the forums in an elaborate troll
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Canary on April 03, 2012, 02:59:56 pm
Just not in my case. I have to explain the entire situation before intentional TKing is an enforceable rule. Once again if smooth had said "Ok he is banned for intentional TKing, but I want the rest of the story and you may face a ban" that would be just fine.

You mean like this?

Sigvard will be banned regardless, but your hesitation to actually explain what he was being a vigilante about is incriminating in its own right.  I am not being biased, just fair.  Ban time will be reduced or removed with the full story but kicking teammates to grief them is rule breaking much like tk'ing to stop it

I once again point out that your immediate refusal to cooperate and begrudging belligerence made it seem much less like a legitimate ban request.


If you want a real response, write real paragraph and don't go line by line through the post.

I'd rather respond to every statement directly without ambiguity so that you know what I'm talking about. If you don't want to take the time to make a real response, though, by all means cut yourself out of the argument.

So your friend was level 23, got shot twice by HXers, and then we were damaging him with our kicks? He had a shield too so he wasnt str stacking..... that is one tough level 23. Our kicks did so much it made him mad enough for his friend to TK us but not mad enough to push the M button? You are right he is being totally honest.

Sounds like you're making assumptions, which proves you're 100% biased.

Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: dynamike on April 03, 2012, 04:44:17 pm
Precisely, no admin was present. Smoothrich started asking for more information and you were reluctant to give it out and became instantly belligerent because of a situation that happened when an admin was on to properly police. You blamed him for being biased because he had to ask for details about the situation instead of just banning the guy based on one piece of evidence. If you're not going to readily say what happened in details, you shouldn't have been so hard on him making presumptions.

Malicious or not, people don't generally like being kicked. If you do it intentionally, then you're going against the rules. The reason it slides so much is because of the infrequency of reports and the small impact it has on the game (in comparison to intentional teamwounding). It's a similar situation to teamkilling after a round ends, it's against the rules, but mostly only when someone complains about it. Obviously it's different if you're kicked off of a high place, however, and especially if you die from it.

There wasn't any doubt that you had kicked someone, and as if you recall, the guy you kicked spoke up in one of the additional threads you posted and wasn't pleased by what you'd done. Other people were around to elaborate on the situation as well.


So it seems like what you're suggesting then and now is that admins should punish people based on reports only, and without evidence the admins actually observe. This is exactly contradictory to what you're so mad at Smoothrich about. We can't just punish people based on one report and assume it's legitimate, and it's procedure to issue a warning, regardless. Like I said in my previous post, that's why I dislike the prevalence of ban requests: A lot of things that merit a warning receive bans as punishment because of the way the system works.

We start with a warning, such as what you quoted. This is the case in situations we don't witness ourselves but are merely reported to us.

Not at all, assuming the situations are also equal. Having more information makes a lot of difference.

He posited a theory about the situation which you denied. You didn't present any other information about what happened, so he was forced to make further assumptions. When asked for more information, you literally said "What does it matter" and refused to speak up about the circumstances, instead beginning your prolonged haranguing of Smoothrich's decision-making (which was hard for him to make with so little input!). I say it was you who began handling the situation completely wrong, and while two wrongs may not make a right, Smoothrich didn't have anything to go on because you refused to tell him more. I don't think it's reasonable to blame him for being snarky when you instantly started out by raising a stink over his judgment.

Don't say there's NO PROCESS just because you don't like the way the process works.

The reason why a lot of things seem disproportionate is that we can't witness every single action undertaken by every single player on a constant basis. There are times when there isn't a single admin online, let alone one to spectate each player on a server!

Despite what you think, we try to coordinate our actions and maintain consistency between punishments, but not every situation is equal, even when the same rule is being broken. This necessitates the admin at-hand using their discretion, even if there was a hard and fast set of punishments as a rule instead of just a guideline.

I'm glad that people like you aren't in charge of the means and amount of punishment people receive, as it seems you're for instantly banning a first-time small infraction for an entire week based only on hearsay and deny that someone would be upset by you repeatedly kicking them (since your intent wasn't "malicious" as you're keen to repeat).

You're more inconsistent than we are, from what I've seen.

We can't constantly spectate one player over the course of every hour you're online and playing. The best we can do is watch out for problems and trouble-makers and respond with warnings to reports of misdeeds without witnessing them, handing out punishment when we see these misdeeds, and go into spectator to watch for repeat behavior, or to answer ban requests (given sufficient information) and go over the server logs where necessary on the appropriate forum board.

They certainly don't need to rule on everyone if they don't see something happening. The moment we begin to enforce rules based only on reports is the moment a false reports gets an innocent player punished. You can hardly blame admins for taking your reports with a grain of salt, Crazyi, after you began a thread by harassing and hurling accusations at one of the admins who was trying to answer your request. And anyway, just because someone doesn't speak up doesn't mean they're not doing anything (though if someone's looking into things I suppose speaking up couldn't hurt either).


I do agree that we can improve on the consistency of punishment, but using your own example consequences, how different would that be from how things happen now? You got a short ban, Sigvard got a long ban.


I feel like the admin team is trying to do more and more, and the playerbase is appreciating it less and less.

Because this is a video game that people should be playing for enjoyment.

While indicative of teamkilling behavior, it wasn't necessarily condemning. I don't see how you can be so appalled by an admin actually trying to uncover more facts before issuing a punishment.

I did re-read that thread. The chat logs show intent, sure, but your screenshot was small and difficult to read, you can't assume Smoothrich can actually see that well, he's an old fogey, you're the one assuming information now!*

*this was a joke, sorry

He could have believed you up until you refused to present information and started your accusations. At first, all that could be seen was a screenshot of Sigvard teamwounding you twice (the second one killing you), Sigvard saying "quit kicking him you fuck" barely legible (which could have happened any time after you had the chat log open, since it isn't scrolled properly.), and you saying "Intentional TK." and nothing else in the thread.

He errs on the side of caution, says something as an example of what might have happened and you immediately took an incredulous stance to the way Smoothrich was handling the situation. His next statement was merely a question about the incident and you refuse to answer it while insisting it's the same as a previous experience you'd had where you were the one breaking the rules (which an admin was online to witness) on another server.

This is where Smoothrich returns your attitude to you, and you start to accuse him of being biased. You start (and continue without ceasing) to say he assumes information, but you've been the one withholding it the whole time. The hell do you expect?

The logs aren't updated constantly for the NA admins. We can't check them constantly since they might not be up to date. I'm fairly certain that approaching it from a neutral position isn't to assume guilt just because you're so adamant about it, it's to weight both sides of what might have happened and decide it based on evidence, some of which you intentionally refused to give out. You tried to brush off the question "Quit kicking who, exactly?" as if it wasn't pertinent information, when in fact it dealt directly with what had happened. He TKed you because you kicked some guy, that's proof that he was deserving of a ban, not because he had two teamwounds on you and an out of context statement shown together in one screenshot. Your persistent belligerence towards Smoothrich did not help your case.

It's against the rules, it's against the rules, it's against the rules. You're missing the point of what I said.  I was describing why it can go unchecked. If nobody's complaining about it, we can't always do anything about it. I'm not saying it's okay that it slides, just that when it happens it is hard to notice sometimes.

It does not display teamwounds in the logs unless they result in a kill or get reported. Reports do not always display to admins. I had to ask you for a name when you were kicked twice at spawn, and I issued a warning because I couldn't see the reports. I don't know anything about the instance where you got kicked off a bridge. I am also not responsible for the judgments of other admins, though I will defend them, in most cases. It's up to the discretion of an admin what the punishment will be for a particular person in a particular situation based on the severity of the circumstances and the people involved.
 
It isn't. Sigvard got banned, in case you forgot.

Right here:


I'm not saying that Sigvard's was a small infraction, but it was his first offense. You were subject to different rules when Smoothrich banned you before that because it was on a different server with different rules (and different people in charge of unbanning).

Just because you wouldn't be offended doesn't mean he wasn't. Just because he didn't report the teamwounds doesn't mean they didn't deal damage. Teamwounds don't show up in the logs unless reported or if they result in a kill. At this point it's your word versus his, and I think it's time we stop retreading this specific issue, since it's already been dealt with.

I'm surprised by how scathing your accusations can be, it's no wonder people don't take you as seriously as you'd like.

Once more: Teamwound reports don't always show up for admins. I don't know about the incident with the bridge, but the admins available seemed to have handled it (unless that person teamkilled again after being warned).



You don't always give us the evidence we need. You want us to ban people without actually looking into things, apparently, and I for one will not do that. You presume we can do far more than we actually can, and that we see much more than we actually see.

On top of which, we do sometimes like to play the game ourselves, so I apologize if some of your messages to I-chat go unheeded, but it can be hard to respond to every issue in a timely fashion without turning ourselves into leechers.

You mean like this?

I once again point out that your immediate refusal to cooperate and begrudging belligerence made it seem much less like a legitimate ban request.


I'd rather respond to every statement directly without ambiguity so that you know what I'm talking about. If you don't want to take the time to make a real response, though, by all means cut yourself out of the argument.

Sounds like you're making assumptions, which proves you're 100% biased.


YO CRAZYI - this guy ^ has a clan to lead, stop wasting his time with replying to your insignificant argumentation. Wake up and smell the roses - you have no point.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on April 03, 2012, 07:16:14 pm
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Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Crazyi on April 03, 2012, 07:18:39 pm
I once again point out that your immediate refusal to cooperate and begrudging belligerence made it seem much less like a legitimate ban request.
I like how you quote reply #7 in the thread and say my immediate refusal. If Smooth had started with the second paragraph in reply #7 as you have quoted, this would of been avoided. Yet he did not. Before this statement, he ignores what my post is about, says sigvard is cav and probably bump slashes me, threatens to ban me for 24 hours, and says I was kicking some one reloading a crossbow. hmmmmmm, Why was I so defensive? I figured it was common knowledge that when you attack some one that feels they were wronged, they get defensive. Apparently that is completely lost to you.

Sounds like you're making assumptions, which proves you're 100% biased.

Do you even know what bias means? It is making DECISIONS with prejudice. It has nothing to do with the statements you quoted. I will assume you ment to say liar. So in case your selective memory has forgot, I will quote your friend.
"You were doing damage, I was level 23 (At the time)" - Vaermi
"I was shot once or twice by (enemy) ranged " - Vaermi
"I left the encounter black bar." - Vaermi
"Wolfgang also tried kicking me even after you were dead" - Vaermi
So do those statements add up? Or are you going to use you bias and tell me they dont? Apparently only my kicks hurt him when I was a naked peasent. Yes, I was a naked peasent, that is why Sigvard chose to kill me. If you want proof of that it is in the chat logs of that day.
And yes, I do remember he had a shield on. I don't think it is an assumption to say it made him mad enough to ask his friend to tk me, because it happened. So it makes you mad enough to have his friend kill us, but not mad enough to push the m button and report us the proper way? Also re-reading his post he claims he was shot WHILE we were kicking him. We must of been kicking him for quite some time to have two crossbow bolts shot at him through the frame of a door up a staircase. Even wolf kicks him after he is hits black bar, and he still lives?
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: ildist on April 03, 2012, 07:40:18 pm
Do you even know what bias means? It is making DECISIONS with prejudice. It has nothing to do with the statements you quoted. I will assume you ment to say liar.

No.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Inequity on April 03, 2012, 08:22:58 pm
tears stalked goate for like two weeks to post a ban thread with vague screenshots he's the worst
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Canary on April 03, 2012, 08:36:49 pm
Your immediate refusal. Reply #3 in the thread, where you neglect to mention some of the details of the scenario you're describing, then your next post where you jump down Smoothrich's throat for asking further questions.

If you were so defensive then you should have answered the questions and actually saved us the time and trouble of having to continue guessing because you weren't cooperating.

If you don't tell us the entirety of what happened, you have no right to complain when we're left with no option but to guess.


I figured it was common knowledge that when you attack some one that feels they were wronged, they get defensive. Apparently that is completely lost to you.

Nope, this was part of the discussion we were having about this situation privately, in fact, on the admin board. I understand how you feel, I just wish you would stop causing so many problems because of something that happened almost two weeks ago.

I will also point out the fact that you initiated everything that happened in this situation. I'm not saying that the reactions to what you did were justified (Sigvard's certainly wasn't), but you started this mess. Don't kick people, it won't upset their friends. Don't hide information, admins will deal with your ban requests. Don't act incredulous when we're trying to do our job to help you. Don't dismiss questions we're asking to get to the bottom of your problems and don't accuse us of being biased when you're not cooperating.

I don't blame Smoothrich for getting snarky with you, you're self-righteous and insolent.

Do you even know what bias means? It is making DECISIONS with prejudice. It has nothing to do with the statements you quoted. I will assume you ment to say liar. So in case your selective memory has forgot, I will quote your friend.

Bias means that you're inclined not to consider a position without prejudice. Such as when someone says that they're getting irritated by your kicking them and that it might have dealt them damage and you dismiss this as nonsense based only on some very inconclusive explanations.

So do those statements add up? Or are you going to use you bias and tell me they dont?  Yes, I was a naked peasent, that is why Sigvard chose to kill me.

They don't have to, he didn't like you kicking him, therefore you broke the rules. You got your punishment, deal with it.

Using your logic: HOW DOES THIS STATEMENT ADD UP...
Apparently only my kicks hurt him when I was a naked peasent. Yes, I was a naked peasent, that is why Sigvard chose to kill me.
...WITH THE SCREENSHOT YOU POSTED WHERE IT TOOK AT LEAST TWO HITS TO KILL YOU? YOU WERE A NAKED PEASANT THEREFORE IT SHOULD HAVE ONLY TAKEN ONE HIT TO KILL YOU SO YOU'RE LYING AND BIASED AGAINST WHAT VAERMI SAID -

Do you see why we might think that doesn't work?

Don't even try to presume that everyone is as spiteful and vindictive as you are, to the point where they'd hit M and report a poor, naked peasant.


You can argue for the world about whether or not Vaermi is telling the truth, but we've already concluded that you were kicking a teammate, so you got punished for it.


I don't think it is an assumption to say it made him mad enough to ask his friend to tk me, because it happened.

This is, in fact, entirely, 100%, no doubt about it - an assumption. How dare you get so goddamn mad about how we accused you of malicious griefing with your kicking when we "couldn't rationalize your malicious intent without being there"! Here you are doing the exact same thing; you can't say that Vaermi asked his friend to teamkill you, because there's no way you could possibly know that's what happened. Stop being a hypocrite.

So it makes you mad enough to have his friend kill us, but not mad enough to push the m button and report us the proper way? Also re-reading his post he claims he was shot WHILE we were kicking him. We must of been kicking him for quite some time to have two crossbow bolts shot at him through the frame of a door up a staircase. Even wolf kicks him after he is hits black bar, and he still lives?

Not pertinent, this issue has been covered. You and Sigvard were dealt with, arguing this anymore is moot.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Elmetiacos on April 03, 2012, 10:27:30 pm
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Swifteye234 on April 03, 2012, 10:37:22 pm
Holy fuck I should come on the forums more often


Shit is entertaining
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Mr_Carpenter on April 03, 2012, 10:44:50 pm
I got bitches, I hate snitches. Where I come from, we put 9mm piercing in the back of the snitches head... We ain't gonna tolerate 'em bitches who be snitching and shit. I'll never hesitate to bust a cap on some bitching snitching bundle of sticks. If you be snitching, we ain't gonna start bitching, cuz we be crippin' fo' real.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Leman_Russ on April 03, 2012, 10:47:01 pm
I would just like to take the time and thank Crazyi for providing some of the most entertaining reading one could ask for in-between rounds.  There is not a forum untouched by his blather.  I am willing to bet that this is all one big troll attempt and in the end he will have the last laugh... or he is just retarded.  Either way, thank you crazyi.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: EyeBeat on April 03, 2012, 10:51:42 pm
I would just like to take the time and thank Crazyi for providing some of the most entertaining reading one could ask for in-between rounds.  There is not a forum untouched by his blather.  I am willing to bet that this is all one big troll attempt and in the end he will have the last laugh... or he is just retarded.  Either way, thank you crazyi.

Trolling is supposed to require no effort.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: farthammer on April 03, 2012, 11:35:14 pm
This is why we should just take a preemptive step and simply ban everyone.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: bravesquirrel on April 04, 2012, 12:31:00 am
Excav and I got banned shortly after making accounts for not breaking any rules because some pussy cried in a ban thread.

There was a ladder to the top of an angled thatch roof that you would fall into and just be sitting on top of the square building, but under the roof.  We were noob so we were laughing about it running around up there.  We weren't the last people alive, we had nothing but newbie clubs so we couldn't shoot out or abuse it, and we jumped down when the admin asked.  Someone posted pictures of us while we were up there and we got banned by Tears even though the screenshots clearly showed we didn't have ranged and even contained the admin chat from the in-game admin asking us to get down (which we did).  The in-game admin didn't feel the need to punish us, but that didn't stop Tears from banning us, anyway (for FOUR days).

Whoever posted that ban thread is exactly what this thread is talking about.  Neither them nor Tears cared about the actual rules, to find out what happened, that nobody was harmed, or that the in-game admin didn't feel it justified punishment.  The poster was more concerned about being that little girl in your elementary school class that feels it's their personal duty to tattle.

Tears did unban us after I got in IRC, but even his post in my unban thread said "Pay closer attention to the admin chat next time" like we didn't :rolleyes:.  Great way to welcome complete newbies to your community: 4 day group ban.  I think some other people got banned with us, too, but I don't believe they got unbanned early like we did.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Smoothrich on April 04, 2012, 01:15:17 am
Yep, ban requests can be dumb, I don't much like taking admin action unless I actually eyewitnessed events, but if not, having access to server logs is the next best thing.

Even if something is fully proven for breaking rules, something like what you did, getting on a roof or w/e.. in game an admin would say "get down" and that'd be it.  Only if it was persistent, malicious, and in spite of warnings that you  kept going on the roof to delay rounds and not contribute, would it befit a ban.

Crazyi is a special case here that I strongly recommend not replying to, but will touch on.  To avoid situations like bravesquirrel stated, if the context and severity is not immediately and abundantly clear through chat logs and screenshots (often a ban request can be misleading or vague with the evidence provided) I will ask questions and try to reconstruct the event in my head, the motives of the people.. basing as much as I can on evidence.  That sounds kind of spergy, but I do it quickly and its in an attempt to be fair.

In crazyi's case, I asked why someone that tk'd him was yelling STOP FUCKING KICKING HIM GOD DAMMIT which is pretty obviously a reaction to something crazyi was doing.  Instead of answering, he stopped answering my questions entirely, and has posted like a raging baby for several weeks straight over it still.  Not really much else to say but haha damn dude stop posting you are awful

Anyways, ultimately an admin should remember that people don't post ban requests threads unless they feel motivated to do so.  Often the motivation is "this guy was ruining the server for me and anyone else for several maps in a row" which is very valid and when no admins are on, isn't bad.  But when the motivation starts to unravel as "heh, i'm gonna get this racist frenchman banned" you should begin asking questions and be critical and possibly just give a warning if you yourself would not ban if you saw it happen.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Tears of Destiny on April 04, 2012, 01:50:50 am
Tears did unban us after I got in IRC, but even his post in my unban thread said "Pay closer attention to the admin chat next time" like we didn't :rolleyes:.  Great way to welcome complete newbies to your community: 4 day group ban.  I think some other people got banned with us, too, but I don't believe they got unbanned early like we did.

They did.

Pay closer attention to admin chat next time.

Digging up the ban thread you are talking about and re-reading, I'm okay with how it worked out. Mistakes happen, most of the time it is justified.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: bravesquirrel on April 04, 2012, 03:46:58 am
Even if something is fully proven for breaking rules, something like what you did, getting on a roof or w/e.. in game an admin would say "get down" and that'd be it.  Only if it was persistent, malicious, and in spite of warnings that you  kept going on the roof to delay rounds and not contribute, would it befit a ban.

This is exactly the approach I would expect an admin to take, especially with someone who isn't a known problem.  I appreciate that you try to put the events into context and evaluate what happened.  Contrast that to this:

Pay closer attention to admin chat next time.

Digging up the ban thread you are talking about and re-reading, I'm okay with how it worked out. Mistakes happen, most of the time it is justified.

Who still makes no effort to understand what happened.

We did pay attention to admin chat.  We jumped down.  That's why I said it multiple times in my last post.  The in-game admin handled it, as evidenced by his speech.  There was no need for you to jump in and slap a 4-day ban on some first-time "offending" noobs because some whiny jackass posted a screenshot of us doing literally nothing wrong as "evidence".  You enable those people.

Pay closer attention to ban requests next time.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Tears of Destiny on April 04, 2012, 05:12:35 am
Who still makes no effort to understand what happened.

I do understand, I just don't care anymore (If I did not understand then and realize it was a mistake, you would not have been unbanned early).

 Beautiful part of being a normal pezzy now. Now I can just repeat: Pay more attention to admin chat next time.

This is me, blissfully not giving a fuck anymore.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Zisa on April 04, 2012, 05:27:04 am
They did.

Pay closer attention to admin chat next time.

Digging up the ban thread you are talking about and re-reading, I'm okay with how it worked out. Mistakes happen, most of the time it is justified.
You are allowed to say 'sorry' or woops...

Why the fuck would you ban a player based on someone else's say so? Didn't see it? Who cares.. move on, not supposed to be some all seeing all reviewing referee, but boot/ban the trouble makers that you actually witness - in real time. Unless admins get handed such a stupid mandate.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: Tears of Destiny on April 04, 2012, 06:04:51 am
You are allowed to say 'sorry' or woops...

Why the fuck would you ban a player based on someone else's say so? Didn't see it? Who cares.. move on, not supposed to be some all seeing all reviewing referee, but boot/ban the trouble makers that you actually witness - in real time. Unless admins get handed such a stupid mandate.

In the thread I felt justified, shush you.

I also apologized in IRC for the incident.  :P

Gave a fuck then, but don't now (don't see why I should now that I am just a normal peasant).

I made good decisions, I made some bad ones too *shrugs* Oh welp. I apologized for every decision I thought was bad.
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
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Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: bravesquirrel on April 04, 2012, 06:42:01 am
I honestly don't remember details of the IRC convo, so sorry if I left out that you apologized.  In the end, no real harm was done, and Tears corrected the situation (I tried to make that clear).

The point of my story was that "snitches", whiners, whatever are bad for the community just like griefers and it's the job of admins to make sure the right thing is done in both cases.  A good admin will understand that, and my story was just an example of that system breaking down and having a negative effect on the player-base.

The point wasn't to crucify Tears, although I do think it was handled incorrectly.  I don't hold any bad feelings toward you personally, Tears, and I can appreciate that admins are voluntary, do a lot, and mistakes will be made.  That's all the more reason, however, for admins to take an approach like smooth.

Like the op said, the game is for fun and some people just take it too seriously sometimes. 
Title: Re: The Snitch Culture of crpg
Post by: EyeBeat on April 04, 2012, 02:15:40 pm
Being an admin sucks because everyone hates you and a make a whole bunch of new enemies.

But when I am able to ban someone for breaking the rules...  It just feels so good that I really do not mind it.  8-)

Tattle threads makes me able to feel good more often.

Also it is great to have for evidence towards people that you eyewitness breaking the rules.  It brings more credibility if they have a past history of infractions. 

The only thing that would be better is maybe if I load fraps so I can have video evidence.

I haven't decided if feeling good is worth the effort though.   :lol: