Fletch (and Saul) thank you for the clarification. I appreciate you taking the time to do so.
(and I submitted my post before Fletch's came in, so my post was written before Fletch took the time to clarify, which essentially nullifies my post, *grin* Timing is everything right?) On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Saul Rennison <[email protected]>wrote: > No. > > Let me reiterate so Fletcher isn't repeating himself. If your players are > having a good time, you won't be in trouble. The point is, it's mainly > targeted towards gift drop exploiters and other bullshit admins do to > advantage themselves against other players. > > > Kind regards, > *Saul Rennison* > > > > On 28 October 2011 19:53, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, we have a set of rules and a lot of banned players who've tried >> hacking us, trolling us, etc to get us back. What rules *WE* enforce should >> be our business, shouldn't it? So we've got a large ban list of trolls, >> dicks, hackers, etc. People often do not like us for actually enforcing our >> rules....and want to "hate" on us. We have a decent player base who support >> us and like that we take an active and often hardline approach toward the >> "isms" (racism, sexism, ageism, etc.) as well as toward trolls/dicks in >> general. >> >> Will valve "investigate" and actually consult with the server >> owner/community? Do I need to start doing demos, screenshots and recordings >> of folks spewing all of the hate speech and rule breaking just to cover my >> back? I ask this because compared to some other servers, we *ARE* a little >> more strict than other servers. So with this new subjective aspect, it has >> me wondering what's to come. >> >> And why now? Free to play was implemented, which allows even more >> anonymous trolls to make account after account (and even change their IP as >> well), and now I gotta answer for banishing groups of them off my server? >> This may just be the end of our servers, as I never thought, as a server >> owner, I'd have to "answer" to Valve for the server I ran when I am not >> violating any terms of service in doing so. >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:33 PM, E. Olsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> That's a valid question - an abuse reporting system has been put in >>> place, without telling the users what consittutes abuse (which I think would >>> lead to many more false reports than not). Some guidelines (both for users >>> and server operators) might be beneficial, both to keep down the number of >>> nuisance reports, AND help the server operators to stay in compliance. It's >>> all well and good to say that Valve reserves the right to ban servers/IP's >>> for abuse, but without knowing what the rules/guidelines are, it's giving >>> operators an invisible line and telling us "don't cross this". >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> What is considered as abusive behaviour? >>>> ___________________________________________________________ >>>> SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und >>>> kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>> please visit: >>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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