Post: #1
08-05-201204:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-05-201204:13 AM by Saintethan.)
Look, I know some of you may not agree with this, but in all actuality, it's the truth. I do not deserve the ability to permaban people. When I'm stressed, I ignore my code of morals and ban people simply because I think they're hacking. I banned 9f yesterday for what appeared to be flying over the stairs of the Admin Shop and going through a pillar. BlackMajor and Mikey saw me do it—and they both told me it was actually lag. I was wrong. Despite me pardoning this person afterwards, he/she still didn't come back on. I made yet another user leave our wonderful server.
This has happened a few times in the past. I banned a user once (CaptainBlockz) for speed hacking, but I am sure now that I had mistaken this for lag. Now, sure, I had tempbanned this particular user for griefing a couple weeks before this incident, but the fact remains: I have abused my ban abilities. And there's more cases of this fatality of mine, I'm sure.
So, after heated thinking, I have come to a conclusion. Until I can distinguish between hacking and a simple bug, I need to have my permabanning abilities revoked. Even were moderators to get access to see NoCheat errors, the problem would still remain that I am a weak moderator: I have also [i]un[/i]banned many users without consulting other Staff. [hr]
also tempbanning is screwed up. bans players for 10x longer than the original tempban.
This has happened a few times in the past. I banned a user once (CaptainBlockz) for speed hacking, but I am sure now that I had mistaken this for lag. Now, sure, I had tempbanned this particular user for griefing a couple weeks before this incident, but the fact remains: I have abused my ban abilities. And there's more cases of this fatality of mine, I'm sure.
So, after heated thinking, I have come to a conclusion. Until I can distinguish between hacking and a simple bug, I need to have my permabanning abilities revoked. Even were moderators to get access to see NoCheat errors, the problem would still remain that I am a weak moderator: I have also [i]un[/i]banned many users without consulting other Staff. [hr]
also tempbanning is screwed up. bans players for 10x longer than the original tempban.
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