well i was curious to see how others felt before offering my own 2 cents (and ive been way too busy irl) but i think this post brings up a lot of problems with how unloze staff handle admun abuses and reports. for the record when i was talking to fierce about this report he cussed me out, told me to fuck off, and it certainly was not a friendly conversation and it certainly did not end well so don’t think im simply defending a friend here because honestly me and fierce have been on opposite sides of the fence many times lately and honestly neither of us are going to budge anytime soon. and yes it is no secret my dislike for vanster but there are many people on the admun team who i dont see eye to eye with and it doesnt stop me from always at least attempting to recognize and look past my own biases.
part of being an admun is taking on a responsibility bigger than yourself and a capacity for looking beyond how YOU feel (this same argument can be used against me im not perfect and no one is, but we should all strive to seriously say we are doing what we believe is best for the server, how you can say that here is beyond me and quite simply it should be beyond anyone who is making at a bare minimum a half-assed attempt at giving an impartial look at things). the part about putting the server before yourself is something vanster fails at time and time again. doing a forcertv is something that should be disabled when the server is around 50+ players, we are all capable of typing rtv ourself and forcertv’ing is, simply put, denying the will of the server. clearly some admuns believe that the will of the server is secondary to their own personal taste and that they know best. if, IF, you are considering a forcertv it should be during a round after a win and only once it becomes apparent that no one is giving a shit anymore. in this instance we saw the server making real genuine attempts at winning predator again (a map which is already criminally underplayed and needs no favors to continue that trend). sure we can look past someone occasionally forcertv’ing but this has become a pattern of behavior for vanster and not a one time mistake. he literally does this more than anyone else, which for 90% of admins is zero btw.
i guess for starters im shocked i see no one calling out vanster on here for his punishment. a one week ban for a few rounds of inflating is absolutely unacceptable imo. for what reasons do we EVER hand out a one week ban? no seriously check sourcebans. better yet what reasons do we ever /need/ to hand out a one week ban for? christo got a 48 hr ban for intentionally shotgunning zms into humans to avoid knife logs and actually ending rounds. the community is small enough as it is and i know for a fact most of you have been around long enough to witness what nazi bans do to a community, we absolutely do not need to self-canibalize our playerbase for such an emotional reason. frankly there are very very few reasons where a ban is appropriate, not to mention we all know bans dont fucking serve any functional purpose other than to make mr big bad admun feel good about themselves. why could he not simply freeze or strip him or any other myriad of peaceful options which were available? a ban ought to be a last resort option when all other options have failed. telling someone to stop is not even close to exhausting all other options.
oh yeah just for the lul’s id like to point out the ONE meaningful question on admin apps is how would you handle someone you suspect is inflating, imagine someone saying “after 3 rounds id yeet the fuck out of them for an entire week, idc if theyre a regular” lmao
secondly i want to express my extreme distaste for the constant shit talking and biases that the staff show when someone makes an emotional report. again, as a member of the staff you need to realize that you are participating in something bigger than yourself and letting an emotional report influence your analysis of the actions or even worse straight up making fun of someone for writing an emotional report and using that to discredit their report makes you even worse tbh. at least the person writing an emotional report has a good reason for being emotional, you have no excuses for that behavior and if someone being emotional in their report bothers you, well, as cliche as it sounds you need to grow up. it seriously takes the most minimal of effort to ignore the emotional side of the report and to instead just focus on the facts and discuss the facts in a mature manner. players are ALREADY emotional for fucks sake theyre making a report. if someone continuously keeps up the emotional shit then we can start telling them “hey the issue is being genuinely discussed and we’re engaging with you right now so try to keep a fair tone”. gee was that so hard? this happened when i /wrongfully/ banned duma and it happens way more often in the majority of quasi-reports we deal with thru steam/discord. if you think its a reasonable idea to punish someone for “the disrespecc” then you have a lot of work to do before youre fit to be handing out punishments. as someone who has been on the other side of these reports a few times there is nothing more infuriating than seeing this behavior.
well i guess i started rambling and should probably end it here. i just wanna end by saying i think vanster has many qualities that would make him a good admin, but right now we have a system where folks are clearly afraid/unwilling to speak out about someone who we have all shared whispers about regarding poor behavior. if anyone is beyond that, like we are seeing here, then i think we as a staff have some serious problems to work on. as fierce said this report goes far beyond the actions that happened on this one day and only showing the public our discussion about this one day and having the rest of the discussion behind closed doors does a disservice not only to those who have been affected by all admun abuse but it also does a disservice to all future admins who join our staff by hiding teachable moments for them to see and understand what being an admun is really about.
i mean come on a one week ban? theres just no way thats fair and the lack of admuns publicly saying as much is depressing as fuck because i know for a fact youre saying it in private