Thorax_

Pokemon Go in 2016 LUL

You beat me to it

Yeah, I was debating on putting that in my response, so I just put it... :derp:
 

By harassing, I meant like the higher level of harassing not like teasing or calling someone a fig or something like that. More on lines of sexually harassing or like extreme cases of bullying....(we had a really persistent person in a situation regarding harrasmant of the sort.... was not fun ).
 

Im not trying to correct you or anything, I fully agree with what you said... I just am trying to clear up what I meant. I didn’t explain well on my first response.

Yeah no worries dude I understand where you're coming from, if the changes I make aren't satisfactory we can discuss it as a community next week (:

Anyone can just claim that person X has been 360 headshooting, which is the reason why people are either supposed to take a demo OR get proper witnesses.
Even if the person was obviously hacking, they could claim otherwise in a ban protest and not taking a demo would result in you not being able to prove them wrong.

You really don't need to make a thread about going inactive for a few days, specifically if you are a member.
I'd recommend creating inactivity-threads just if you need to take an extended amount of time off (e.g 1-4+ weeks).

As Egossi said, staff should be able to use their common sense when deciding punishments. That is what I've always told people to do when deciding on what to do; just use common sense. And for the most part, the staff does a pretty good job with handling it.
If you've seen me post it before in promo/demo threads, I usually link the "Admin Handbook" to newer staff. I don't want them to literally take everything from that thread and apply it to the servers like the thread states. I want them to use it as a margin as to where the limits are on punishments.
 
Since this thread is correlated with the ban protest thread, the only thing I'd have to agree on is recording demos or having some sort of decent proof. Although, as a person, you don't instantly think to record a demo and then ban the player if they're hacking. You want to punish the player as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Mistakes happen (if said player in that ban protest is actually being truthful), which is why we learn and move on.

Aren't those extremely outdated?

I mean if this is what we are supposed to follow then about 98% of TF2 staff have been doing it wrong for the past 3-4 years, this even includes the permanent ban I received in 2014 for the reason being ban evasion
I think you should update the handbook before encouraging us staff members to use it
 
Regardless of that, imo staff should be able to use their common sense when deciding punishments, and if said staff member doesn't have the mental capacity to do so, then they should be demoted.
It doesn't seem very appealing (especially we're somewhat on a staff-shortage) to enforce staff to work like a robot, along with the 20 hour requirement rule (speaking for TF2 div)
@Bello @Goblins @Aegean @Lithium @Owl

I really agree with @Goblins, @Egossi and @Lithium.

This part is certainly outdated for TF2 as well, we have SourceComms now which allows us to mute players for specific times as well as people now remain muted even after the round ends or the map changes.
 
I however agree with this still being kind of relevant:

Taking a demo is really not hard and makes it easier for everyone.

i think thats why he tagged 2 DMs xDDD
either way my -1 stands

-1 kid is annoying as fuck.

Admin Handbook

 
Just wanted to shed some light on this lovely Admin Handbook (click on the Header) that seems to be missing some much-needed love. That is to say, I've noticed an increasing number of Staff banning players with varying time lengths as well as dishing out wrongful Permanent bans on players who are supposedly "hacking" without any sort of evidence or proof to back up the claim. Up until when I stepped down, Staff had always upheld this "unless proven otherwise, give the player the benefit of the doubt" mentality, and it's sad to see that in this case it's becoming more and more apparent that Staff automatically deem a player a 'bad apple' as opposed to the former.
 
Now, I don't want to be a shit-disturber as that isn't my intention; but for the duration of time I've spent here at Xeno Gamers as a Staff Member, I've always tried to do my best to uphold our rules and guidelines. You could call me a 'rule-nazi', though I had always taken great pride in enacting fair and just bans; so if that warrants the rule-nazi title, then so be it.
 
I'm not doubting any Staff's integrity or ability to Moderate, that isn't what I'm getting at here. What I'm just pointing out is that there are certain rules and guidelines that were set in place; albeit a long time ago, when it comes to dishing out punishments. It's just sad to see that those particular rules are either being shrugged off or forgotten, though I'm assuming it's the latter.
 
Anyway, I just wanted to bring this to light, because I don't know if/when it will be brought up at any other point by anyone else.
 
Cheers :coffee:

Nice idea, probably not going to happen as what @Vexx said.

@Stevenn HACKED INTO MY COMPUTER, AND HE STOLE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION, GOT MY CREDIT CARD INFORMATION AND MAXED OUT ALL OF MY CREDIT CARDS, DRAINED MY BANK ACCOUNTS, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY HE RUINED MY CREDIT RATING. HE IS DEMANDING A RANSOM OF $10,000 TO DELETE ALL OF MY INFORMATION, BUT I NEED MONEY. CAN YOU GUYS PLEASE DONATE TO MY CAMPAIGN SO THAT I CAN BE SAVED FROM THIS JEW HACKER?!
 
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THANKS SO MUCH GUYS. IF YOU CAN'T DONATE, CAN YOU PLEASE JUST SHARE THIS AND SPREAD THE WORD AROUND? THAT WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED! <3

Hmm, I don't just ban people for no reason, especially when it comes to aimbots. However, I don't keep a video log of literally everyone I ban (lord knows how much memory that would take) so it is hard to produce video evidence, but I am usually pretty darn sure people are not playing legit when I ban them for aimbot.
Now, before I ban someone I look for common tropes of aimbots, and I watch until I witness something that would be most telling that the player has something fishy going on. So if I did ban you for it I must have seen something quite obvious to myself as illegitimate playing, however I don't have the demo files on hand to re-verify so my vote remains neutral on unbanning.
 
EDIT: Seems like I need to take an ol' trip down to the admin handbook...

Nice idea, probably not going to happen as what @Vexx said.

You were banned on October 8, 2016. Here is the ban for anyone who is curious: Xeno Gamers
@mrnutty12 is the one who banned you.
 

 
What is he going to do, just ask you if you're using an aimbot? No, he won't. Nutty seemed to go off of his judgement.
 
He will respond with his reasoning soon.

"Brady"

Here is the answer :
 
 

Like seriously last time I unplugged my laptop from the power supply, and after about two hours the laptop shut down and stopped working until I repluggued it, so one thing is sure, if computers don't need electricity all the time, it might be needed from time to time or the computer will go into a deep depression and suicide, will tell you when I discover more!

Don't worry guys, you can have a sub-channel under my.. oh wait, nevermind

Samers ;)
 

 
Ripperonni

I officially claim the channel named "Egossi's Channel"

Updated the guide Teamspeak Rules
 
4 subchannel limit, and November 1st is the deadline to claim a community channel before it gets deleted.

You are welcome in the group, You just haven't been around long enough to have many people vouch, trust me if you wait about a month and stay active, I'm sure you will get some vouches. We hope you don't feel "unwelcome", its just that to become a member you need vouches from 5 members and 1 higher up, and you haven't been really active enough to e well noticed. The longer you hang out in the server the better the chance you are noticed :)
 
You don't have to have this closed, you can try to get vouches, but I just don't see much of a chance on this one application. Maybe the next though.
 
 
 
+1
A:6
M:7
 
Friendly, Nice person to be around, would be a nice addition.