Griefing/micspamming/votekick abuse

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Griefing/micspamming/votekick abuse - umopGpisdn - Mar 15, 2011

Hi SourceOP, I am an occasional player on your instant respawn 2fort server in the wee hours of the morning. I main Heavy and am good enough to get accused of hacking pretty regularly. I struck someone's nerve over the last few hours, because eventually two players appeared with my name and proceeded to both micspam and perform some mild griefing.

After enduring this for quite a while, a teammate I am previously acquainted with via the server got the ball rolling on votekicking them. After several failures, one player was kicked. The other one turned out to be the main micspammer. After a couple failed attempts to votekick this second player he used the momentum to start a couple votekicks against me, which ended up succeeding.

I have done my share of submitting bans and the like in other TF2 communities and prefer to have demos as proof, but wasn't really thinking about it at the time. The only proof I can give is the Steam ID's/HLStatsX pages of my two clones:

Sorry, but someone with the capability will have to sift through the server logs to validate my story.

It looks like they might be playing through proxies. Judging by their stat pages they don't really do anything but grief by taking peoples' names and getting them kicked. Apparently they got the player who started the votekicks against them kicked soon after they got me kicked.

Just because he was an utter crybaby cunt on the server, I don't really feel bad reporting that Codeseven was the player not taking too kindly to getting owned by a "newb" and is the most likely culprit behind the two players griefing me/my team. I don't know if you can do some sort of IP check to see if he's linked to the other guys.

Finally I'd like to briefly express my general frustration with the votekick system. Just like every "press a number to choose the next map" system, players usually just vote before they look at what the text says. I realize lowering the vote success threshold to something like 50% could result in any random unwarranted votekick succeeding, but making players press 1 or 2 to vote while cycling through their weapons is not an effective way to get servers to moderate themselves... especially when assuming the entire other team will vote 'no' because they don't have to listen to micspam or deal with the griefing. Can't the system be changed so players will be petitioned to press some other out of the way number keys to vote?

All of this aside I've had a lot of fun on your 2fort server! Thanks in advance for the help.

Griefing/micspamming/votekick abuse - KockEyedNerd - Mar 15, 2011

Trying to get someone votekicked can be annoying sometimes, the best thing to do if it keeps failing is to type contact admin in chat. This will bring up a form for you to fill out and once completed will alert an admin of the issue.

Griefing/micspamming/votekick abuse - Snarf - Mar 15, 2011

Assuming you ticked emergency, if it's an emergency you can tick that bubble and df will be texted. If you abuse the privilege you're going to be banned.

Griefing/micspamming/votekick abuse - DataStorm - Mar 15, 2011

I hate any voting system, its always on the 1234 keys instead of higher numbers, I swap to a weap or busy doing something and already voted something random. No idea why its always on the low numbers :S

Griefing/micspamming/votekick abuse - Drunken F00l - Mar 15, 2011

Banned them. Thank you.

Griefing/micspamming/votekick abuse - Snarf - Mar 15, 2011

Now that that's over I can make fun of him for "maining" heavy.

Griefing/micspamming/votekick abuse - umopGpisdn - Mar 15, 2011

KockEyedNerd Wrote:Trying to get someone votekicked can be annoying sometimes, the best thing to do if it keeps failing is to type contact admin in chat. This will bring up a form for you to fill out and once completed will alert an admin of the issue.

Snarf Wrote:Assuming you ticked emergency, if it's an emergency you can tick that bubble and df will be texted. If you abuse the privilege you're going to be banned.

Thanks for the tips. Would have been a little overboard for this situation though.

Snarf Wrote:Now that that's over I can make fun of him for "maining" heavy.

I'll be over here crying myself to sleep because I was made fun of by the most annoying character on Thundercats.

Griefing/micspamming/votekick abuse - Drunken F00l - Mar 15, 2011

umopGpisdn Wrote:
KockEyedNerd Wrote:contact admin
Thanks for the tips. Would have been a little overboard for this situation though.

No, not really. Somebody needing banning is a good use of contact admin.

Griefing/micspamming/votekick abuse - ibby - Mar 15, 2011

umopGpisdn Wrote:
Snarf Wrote:Now that that's over I can make fun of him for "maining" heavy.
I'll be over here crying myself to sleep because I was made fun of by the most annoying character on Thundercats.

Coincidentally the most annoying character on SourceOP as well :roll:

Griefing/micspamming/votekick abuse - Snarf - Mar 15, 2011

Ibby has never visited the tf2items section of the board.