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if it's an extremely obvious case of mass, intentional griefing, I doubt any of us will care too much. If it's even slightly debatable about it being intentional and massive, then SA's and CA's should be posting increase requests and describing the situation. Completely alleviates them of any liability and still gets the ban accomplished.

Situational.

Yes, this was never an actual thing. We did not care too much for situations like mass free killing or RDMing and leaving, etc., but it has now gotten to a point where it was being abused by admins and can no longer be left solely up to discretion without any type of guidelines. Essentially, you really shouldn't be banning people at all for leaving. There are few, few situations where it is okay. We aren't going to back track and look for people who did this previously, but we are saying that it should not be happening anymore.

Hello everyone, Originally, I was going to post this in the SA section, but I decided not to because this really applies to everyone in the community, whether you are the person who is banning or the person being banned. So why not get everyone on the same page? No reason to keep secrets. Every once in awhile something comes across our path that makes us say "Wait...that's a rule? Where is that a thing?" If you guys know me personally and know the way I manage the community on the higher-up side of things, I like to have everything that is an official rule laid out for everyone to see. Back when I was an AO and Garfield owned this community, there was a lot of mismanaged crap everywhere. People were pulling obscure rules from long-lost threads created years and years ago. Plus my job requires me to read a lot of text written by lawyers, so I like to make sure everything is worded and phrased the exact way it should be: ie a rule saying you SHOULD do something vs. saying you SHALL do something, etc. Oftentimes these 'rules' get started by rumor. Sometimes these go on for so long that by the time someone questions it, the response is "Oh it's always been done that way." Not a valid excuse. The majority of the BD team has been here for 8-10 years. Black Rain is the newest one, but she's still been here for 4 years. For the most part, we pretty much can sniff out bullshit between the five of us. Sometimes, it eludes us, but the vast majority of the time it is caught by at least one of us. Sometimes there are situations so random that we have absolutely no rule for it, and for that, it falls under the golden rule of SG: I'm going off on a bit of a tangent from the original purpose of this thread, but I just wanted to give a bit of backstory so this didn't seem completely random. Banning a Player for Leaving the Server The point of this thread, 'unfair banning' is specifically mentioning something that I have seen a few admins do, varying across rank. As you can guess by the title, it's about admins issuing bans for players because they leave the server after committing some sort of deviation from the rules. Let me run two situations by you for example: Situation A) A player joins and mass-free kills a bunch of people and mic-spamming "I wish I was in Dixie" while typing racial slurs. He disconnects and leaves the server before an admin can issue a punishment. This situation is okay to issue a ban after they leave. They committed violations that would have gotten them banned anyways, and they were obviously just intentionally trying to grief. Situation B) A player is on CT on prison break, and headshots a T for disobeying a rule. The admin and the CT are arguing about the justification of the kill after the CT dies. The admin sets the CT to be slayed on the next round because he thinks the CT should have given a warning shot. The player disconnects right after being set to slay because he doesn't want to wait another 5-10 minutes to be respawned and play. This situation is not okay to ban the player for leaving. He wouldn't have gotten an immediate ban for this situation anyways. The point in admins using their powers against players is to deconflict a situation going on. The situation is entirely deconflicted at this point, and there is no reason (other than spite) to go onto sourcebans afterwards and ban him. As I said earlier, we choose the wording in our rules very carefully. If an admin deviates from this standard set of rules (because there are random situations that don't fall under anything we have listed), he is expected to use common sense and good judgement. If their version of common sense and good judgment is frowned upon by all 12 higher ups, well it makes us question their judgment. We could go over hypothetical situations all day and night, but I encourage all admins and players to READ the actual rules we have listed. This is not to encourage people to skirt around any rules intentionally, it's meant so you guys essentially know when you're being banned unfairly or when an admin is enforcing something they shouldn't be enforcing. If you intentionally skirt around the rules to make an admin's job harder, we will probably punish you out of principle. I'm aware that this has happened in the past, but it stops now. This has been discussed among the AO's+, and we have unanimously agreed that banning players for leaving the server is only legitimate in certain situations, mainly extreme ones where the player is intentionally trying to grief. If there are any questions, please let us know, but if I see a million hypothetical situations, I'm not going to keep entertaining them all, as that could go on endlessly. As an admin, if you are in a situation where you truly do not know how to handle it, I would recommend you messaging a higher up immediately. If you cannot get in touch with one, not taking action (or taking minimal action like a 5 minute or hour ban) may be the best way to go, and wait for further clarification. And lastly, "Avoiding punishments" = people who are trying to disconnect and reconnect to avoid a slay, a mute, etc. Not the same thing this topic, and that is okay to punish for seeing as it is an actual ban reason. Thanks SG's Management Team

Forgot to mention it, but this is a perfect example of what busting your ass can achieve. Nimmy has sat and dedicated hours upon hours upon hours upon hours (like seriously, an unhealthy amount) towards helping SG directly through various means. This is the kind of shit that gets you promoted quickly and has all of us higher-ups glad when we can easily make a decision to promote someone to a higher rank. We all thought Nimmy was a dumbass a few months ago, but has gone on to learn from his mistakes and take advice to better himself. We're all here to help you guys get to whatever rank it is you want to get to, but some people get so bitter when they hear the truth of how to better themselves.

I'd like to introduce you guys to our newest Administrative Officer, Nimmy! He has helped this community out tremendously, spending hours upon hours improving our servers with new ideas and fixing old ones. We have nothing but the utmost confidence in his abilities and trust that he will do a great job at this new rank! He will be helping me with Zriot, as well as probably helping out with Prison Break. He has not been a CA for a long time, but we are confident that he can help this community out more as an AO. His new duties include: Verify that servers are operational Reboot dead/lagged servers Manage player bans/appeals Assist in training new admins Handle admin complaints Handle disputes among fellow admins Monitor the Teamspeak 3 server Grant access rights to Teamspeak 3 Search for new maps for all servers Upload maps to the servers and fast downloads site Edit map lists & rotations Issue permanent bans to players via request from SA's Handle reported posts on the forum Please welcome him to his new position!

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Bumped to a perm for making an alt account and spamming racism.

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I forgot to make one of these the other day, but our beloved Spartan has stepped down to LG! We all wish him nothing but the best and give him a huge thanks for all the work he has done here. Spartan, being my predecessor, has helped me out immensely through my time here at SG, and I'm sure he has helped many of you. Please join me in giving him a huge thanks for all his hard work here!

Michelle was banned for a month for continuously harassing users and needlessly starting drama, even after we have addressed these issues to her in the past. On top of this, publicly telling everyone how much you don't care about SG (and changing your steam name to reflect this) usually doesn't help when we decide upon whether or not to ban someone. If she decides to come back to the community, she'll be on an absolute last-chance basis.

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Actually, it's extremely relevant. @Four is wording the post as if he created the plugin - it's a direct copy paste from somebody else's work they put in with absolutely no citations or even a quotation at the minimum. Legalities completely aside, it's a douchey thing to do to someone else who actually put in the work to create something. We aren't going to be adding the plugin, but also in the future make sure you're at least somewhat attempting not to mislead the community into thinking that you created something you didn't. You literally put like...no...no you did not lmfao...

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Can you (or anyone) go ahead and convert this to some other languages please? I wanna have some languages supported before the release... "Phrases" { "GangAlert" { "#format" "{1:s}" "en" "Gang member {1} has joined the game" } "DisabledPlugin" { "en" "This plugin is disabled!" } "DisabledAcceptCommand" { "en" "Accepting via command is disabled!" } "PlayerNotInGame" { "en" "You must be in-game to use this command!" } "WrongTeam" { "en" "You must be on the terrorist team to use this command!" } "AlreadyInGang" { "en" "You are already in a gang!" } "NotInvited" { "en" "You must be invited first!" } "GangIsFull" { "en" "That Gang is full!" } "NameTooLong" { "en" "The name you selected is too long!" } "NameAlreadyUsed" { "en" "That name is already used, try again!" } "GangCreated" { "#format" "{1:s}, {2:s}" "en" "{1} has created {2}" } "GangNameChange" { "#format" "{1:s}, {2:s}, {3:s}" "en" "{1} has changed the name of {2} to {3}" } "AcceptInstructions" { "#format" "{1:s}" "en" "Type !accept to join {1}!"" } "GangJoined" { "#format" "{1:s}, {2:s}" "en" "{1} has joined {2}!" } "HealthUpgrade" { "en" "Health upgrade will be applied next round!" } "DamageUpgrade" { "en" "Damage upgrade will be applied next round!" } "SpeedUpgrade" { "en" "Speed upgrade will be applied next round!" } "SizeUpgrade" { "en" "Size upgrade will be applied next round!" } "GravityUpgrade" { "en" "Gravity upgrade will be applied next round!" } "GangName" { "en" "Please type desired gang name in chat!" } "GangMemberKick" { "#format" "{1:s}, {2:s}" "en" "{1} has been kicked from {2}" } "NoGangs" { "en" "There are no gangs created!" } "GangDisbanded" { "#format" "{1:s}, {2:s}" "en" "{1} has disbanded {2}" } "LeftGang" { "#format" "{1:s}, {2:s}" "en" "{1} has left {2}" } "GamePerksDisabled" { "en" "Your gang perks have been disabled!" } } I'll also need some more in the future once menus are converted. This is just printed text phrases

I'm very interested in doing this. Next patch we should have support for other languages

Should be fixed in version 1.0.3! Try it

Any chance this can be compatible with tf2?

We definitely will not be adding this. Other than people grinding for their own credits, this can create a black market where players sell credits. So yeah, we'll look at some alternatives and get back to you.