03-29-2003, 10:50 AM
I've only gotten punished by the admins twice... once I got kicked for getting a little heated in a political argument (which I was fine with)... the other time I was slapped several times, and subsequently knocked off into oblivion almost every time, by evil_admin because I was "camping" or using the darkson method, or whatever you might call it (which I was NOT fine with).
I can respect the positions of admins because I was an admin of a CS server, and we got a lot of dickheads. I had been told I was abusing admin for slaying chat spammers and annoying people and such. The problem is when someone gets a warning from an admin, or they get slapped and told to shut up, they have too much pride and won't just shut up, they'll continue to talk back or whatever, resulting in more action. So in hindsight, they say "that was abuse, I was kicked because I cussed ONCE!"
I can also respect the positions of players too, because sometimes you don't see the admin action coming. I was really ticked off when I was slapped and killed, I kept asking evil why it happened, and he would not answer. I didn't know evil was in there either, I just knew I was being slapped and no one answered me when I asked "who the hell is slapping me and why?" Eventually evil changed to his normal name later, so I figured out who it was. Naturally, any time I said I was slapped for no reason, the response was "well you must have done something, it couldn't be just for stalling on the same pad." Well, fine, cool, I have a stellar memory and I don't recall avoid the filter (does anyone here see me do that?) or exploiting (once again, anyone?)... but the point is, even if I did something against the rules, I'd like to be told before my games are ruined by getting killed for seemingly no reason. And afterwards, I'd like to know what I did. Never was told, and was too long ago to be told now.
In summary... I understand the views of both sides, and I respect every admin with the exception of evil.
I can respect the positions of admins because I was an admin of a CS server, and we got a lot of dickheads. I had been told I was abusing admin for slaying chat spammers and annoying people and such. The problem is when someone gets a warning from an admin, or they get slapped and told to shut up, they have too much pride and won't just shut up, they'll continue to talk back or whatever, resulting in more action. So in hindsight, they say "that was abuse, I was kicked because I cussed ONCE!"
I can also respect the positions of players too, because sometimes you don't see the admin action coming. I was really ticked off when I was slapped and killed, I kept asking evil why it happened, and he would not answer. I didn't know evil was in there either, I just knew I was being slapped and no one answered me when I asked "who the hell is slapping me and why?" Eventually evil changed to his normal name later, so I figured out who it was. Naturally, any time I said I was slapped for no reason, the response was "well you must have done something, it couldn't be just for stalling on the same pad." Well, fine, cool, I have a stellar memory and I don't recall avoid the filter (does anyone here see me do that?) or exploiting (once again, anyone?)... but the point is, even if I did something against the rules, I'd like to be told before my games are ruined by getting killed for seemingly no reason. And afterwards, I'd like to know what I did. Never was told, and was too long ago to be told now.
In summary... I understand the views of both sides, and I respect every admin with the exception of evil.