jonnysurvives
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For me, this has got to be the dumbest rule of the lot. Or at least the way that it gets applied is.
If you get a screenshot of a player being asked up-front whether or not they hack and them saying they do, that's fair enough, but in most cases this rule is used to get people banned for innocently believing that the staff could tell the difference between what is serious and what isn't.
Example 1:
A while ago I was playing on Teweran 2 with a mod in-game. I had been chatting to the mod in the lobby, so when I ran into him I felt comfortable enough to write '*turns off hacks*' in chat. My only mistake was thinking that a moderator was likely to have some common sense, but lo and behold he immediately kicked me for 'admitting to hacks'.
Example 2:
A friend was in a lobby having just teamed to take down a hacker in deathmatch. Said hacker is now hurling hackusations at the two, to which the friend replies 'Yeah, I'm the hacker...'. Presumably the hacker screenshots this and reports my friend because before he knows it he's banned for a week for admitting to hacks. He now has no chance of getting mod because he's obviously hacking scum and in no way fit to moderate the servers.
I'm not saying this rule should be removed entirely, just that it should be applied more sparingly and a whole lot more discriminately. Currently, the way the rule is applied makes the staff come across as a bunch of robots incapable of perceiving anything but the extrinsic, surface meaning of what is said (I hate to generalise- there are plenty of staff not like this). It's no mystery why there is still considerable stigma around the staff- it's because of stupid stuff like this.
If you get a screenshot of a player being asked up-front whether or not they hack and them saying they do, that's fair enough, but in most cases this rule is used to get people banned for innocently believing that the staff could tell the difference between what is serious and what isn't.
Example 1:
A while ago I was playing on Teweran 2 with a mod in-game. I had been chatting to the mod in the lobby, so when I ran into him I felt comfortable enough to write '*turns off hacks*' in chat. My only mistake was thinking that a moderator was likely to have some common sense, but lo and behold he immediately kicked me for 'admitting to hacks'.
Example 2:
A friend was in a lobby having just teamed to take down a hacker in deathmatch. Said hacker is now hurling hackusations at the two, to which the friend replies 'Yeah, I'm the hacker...'. Presumably the hacker screenshots this and reports my friend because before he knows it he's banned for a week for admitting to hacks. He now has no chance of getting mod because he's obviously hacking scum and in no way fit to moderate the servers.
I'm not saying this rule should be removed entirely, just that it should be applied more sparingly and a whole lot more discriminately. Currently, the way the rule is applied makes the staff come across as a bunch of robots incapable of perceiving anything but the extrinsic, surface meaning of what is said (I hate to generalise- there are plenty of staff not like this). It's no mystery why there is still considerable stigma around the staff- it's because of stupid stuff like this.