Haha Suhh Dude! An April Update!

Eh..

You can add your own tags to your steam friends. If you feel that you're going to have a difficult time finding them, click the drop down arrow next to their name and click "Tag as..." to tag them.

While I do find this very useful for personal use, it doesn't help those who don't have staff in their friends list. Specifically newer people on the servers who aren't familiar with whom staff are or may be, or even how to find them. Now of course having the admin and mod titles helps with this issue, but not so much if the staff member is using their mic more so then text chat. This also makes things significantly easier for people to impersonate staff members through the mic as well. Perhaps, and I'll pulling this out of my rear end here, making it required for warnings to be issues through text chat before one can actually take action to a mute/kick/etc, to ensure that the staff title is seen by users.

While I do find this very useful for personal use, it doesn't help those who don't have staff in their friends list. Specifically newer people on the servers who aren't familiar with whom staff are or may be, or even how to find them. Now of course having the admin and mod titles helps with this issue, but not so much if the staff member is using their mic more so then text chat. This also makes things significantly easier for people to impersonate staff members through the mic as well. Perhaps, and I'll pulling this out of my rear end here, making it required for warnings to be issues through text chat before one can actually take action to a mute/kick/etc, to ensure that the staff title is seen by users.

Most staff members give a warning through all chat. With that being said, if someone wanted to impersonate a staff member over voice, the old tag system would not have helped with that at all, as all it required was just simply putting on the tag. This is why we allowed for them to choose between the two, because if the staff does use mic more, they can use the name tags. If a staff member uses chat more, they can use the titles. This system of identifying staff gives the staff members more freedom to choose how they are seen as staff, through tags or titles. Also if in the event you do need to find all the staff members, we have a steam group for that: Steam Community :: Group :: xG Tf2 Staff Group, we try to keep it as up to date as possible.

 

For Staff: "Unless a Player is explicitly affecting the Servers (or is otherwise harassing a Player on our Servers) then there is no reason to ban a Player for their actions outside of the Servers. In other words, in order for a Player to be punished, they have to be affecting the Server as a whole, or, and this is a big 'or', they have to be a danger (IE. [verbal] harassment, threats, etc) to any of the Players in the Server (including Staff). Anything above or beyond this is an abuse of power from the Staff (depending on the situation)." Quoted from @Forest, we discussed as higher-ups that this is in fact the best course of action. This debate was sparked due to a ban last week so this should hopefully clear things up, and if you have any questions as moderators/admins, do not be afraid to ask the higher-ups on clarification.

 

A bit late, but...

It's sad that this was a problem in the first place. Although I don't get on anymore, and don't know the context of said ban, there's absolutely NO reason to ban someone for something they said while not on xG servers. Power-tripping admins at their finest.

I also don't understand why you would be banned for talking shit about someone who goes on your servers. I'm sure that people have done it to me and vice versa. But I suppose xG is a safe-space now, don't wanna hurt anyone's feelings. ;)

A bit late, but...

 

It's sad that this was a problem in the first place. Although I don't get on anymore, and don't know the context of said ban, there's absolutely NO reason to ban someone for something they said while not on xG servers. Power-tripping admins at their finest.

 

I also don't understand why you would be banned for talking shit about someone who goes on your servers. I'm sure that people have done it to me and vice versa. But I suppose xG is a safe-space now, don't wanna hurt anyone's feelings. ;)

You came from the CS:GO side, and this was specifically from the TF2 side lol. On top of that, the tf2 staff are VERY lenient on what people say nowadays, this was just an extreme case. Glad to get your valuable input though after so long!

A bit late, but...

 

It's sad that this was a problem in the first place. Although I don't get on anymore, and don't know the context of said ban, there's absolutely NO reason to ban someone for something they said while not on xG servers. Power-tripping admins at their finest.

 

I also don't understand why you would be banned for talking shit about someone who goes on your servers. I'm sure that people have done it to me and vice versa. But I suppose xG is a safe-space now, don't wanna hurt anyone's feelings. ;)

Yeah, have you met Vector? x)

Yeah, have you met Vector? x)

Vector is my ideal safe-space :)

Aw yeah 4/20 blaze it lool:D