Why Must Server Admins Be Such Jerks?

PooPoo Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8686Members
I was playing on the -Eternity- Clan NS Server and was Aliens. We were doing quite good, but the Marines had an edge on us. So I was fighting for my fellow Aliens when i get the "Kicked by Console" Message!


I rejoin and ask, "Why was I kicked?".

Maybe they though I was being a jerk? I didnt say anything, I was acutully being quite nice to everyone.

I get this in reply: "You have been Banned from this server"


If your going to BAN someone for a reason then tell the person! Don't just BAN someone for no reason!

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  • MooMoo_the_SnowCowMooMoo_the_SnowCow Join Date: 2002-08-03 Member: 1057Members
    Don't be angry if a server admin bans you even if for no good reason he is the one paying money for the server or was choosen to admin by a person paying money it is your privilage to play there not your right.
  • ShawnDShawnD Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7827Members
    well actually MOST of those servers are free servers run out of peoples' homes, they are not paying anything extra for them.
  • MooMoo_the_SnowCowMooMoo_the_SnowCow Join Date: 2002-08-03 Member: 1057Members
    They pay money for thier connection to the internet there computer and what ever they upgrade thier computer with so they do pay money and they can do as they wish with thier server. (notice the overuse of thier)
  • DeadlyFreezeDeadlyFreeze Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6915Members
    Some people are jerks, what else can you say.... there isnt any lack of servers so dont complain about it, dont need to turn this into the CS forum.
  • andyamlandyaml Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8830Members
    I've noticed that there are quite a few whiny-baby server admins, and not just in Natural Selection. I played a few rounds in CS where the admin kicked me for knifing him. Some people are just...

    A) Sore losers
    or
    B) Jerks
  • JA1numJA1num Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7261Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Poo!+Nov 16 2002, 12:49 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Poo! @ Nov 16 2002, 12:49 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I was playing on the -Eternity- Clan NS Server and was Aliens. We were doing quite good, but the Marines had an edge on us. So I was fighting for my fellow Aliens when i get the "Kicked by Console" Message!


    I rejoin and ask, "Why was I kicked?".

    Maybe they though I was being a jerk? I didnt say anything, I was acutully being quite nice to everyone.

    I get this in reply: "You have been Banned from this server"


    If your going to BAN someone for a reason then tell the person! Don't just BAN someone for no reason!

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    maybe they are having a clan war? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Teufel_EldritchTeufel_Eldritch Join Date: 2002-01-28 Member: 124Members
    Mebbe he just plain didnt like you. Consider a server a extension of someones home. I am certainly not going to allow someone I do not like in my home and so it is with a server. Just go visit another server. There are tons of them. No big deal.
  • JA1numJA1num Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7261Members
    or u can bust into the server (if u can) and start creating havoc ~!~!!~!~!!~~!~! <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tiny.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tiny.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • GravitonSurgeGravitonSurge Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6138Members
    Spam them with annoying forum smilies?
  • JA1numJA1num Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7261Members
    yea,that's a good idea too <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • ShawnDShawnD Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7827Members
    edited November 2002
    <b><span style='color:green'>***SPORED*** Yeah! Let's tell EVERYONE about how to do something illegal! GREAT idea!</span></b>
  • JA1numJA1num Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7261Members
  • Teufel_EldritchTeufel_Eldritch Join Date: 2002-01-28 Member: 124Members
    edited November 2002
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><i>Originally posted by ChineseElite </i>
    <b>A DoS attack, know as a Denial of Service, is basically flooding a network to the point where legitimate users cannot access it. Ways to do this are by sending syn packets from a spoofed IP, or a simple mass packet sending.

    A DDoS is the same thing, but is a force attack. Rather than use 1 or 2 machines, a hacker plants a bot or trojan that they can use to send packets. Using tens of thousands of computers it would be possible to take down even the biggest networks. </b><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->So basically what numnuts above is suggesting is attacking the server, which is of course illegal. Not to mention just plain wrong. Ill be surprised if a NS Forum admin doesnt show up here in this thread.
  • PooPoo Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8686Members
    I would never attack a server because of it's admins. I was just fustrated because we had a good game going. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • wlibaerswlibaers Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8685Members
    That sort of thing can happen if you're biting the owner of the server a few times too many, some people are sensitive to that. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
    Less likely to happen on a dedicated server, it's also possible they were planning a newbie server, and you were disrupting the balance a bit.
  • NecroNecro &lt;insert non-birthday-related title here&gt; Join Date: 2002-08-09 Member: 1118Members
    thats lame shawnd. thats even LOWER then the admins kicking you.
  • TomtenTomten Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8138Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Mebbe he just plain didnt like you. Consider a server a extension of someones home. I am certainly not going to allow someone I do not like in my home and so it is with a server. Just go visit another server. There are tons of them. No big deal. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    That must be the most stupid thing i've ever heard. It's just plain wrong to ban someone from a server, just for playing there. It's OK if he does something wrong and break the rules, but otherwise the server admin is just retarded.
  • Kung_FoolKung_Fool Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4092Members
    I can feel your pain. I had an amazing game yesterday with about even teams and I was doing quite good as a Fade, getting back feedwater hive and a gorg was setting up some healing chambers so I could hinder the marines from forcing us back again while my alien teammates were expanding. I was in a continuous battle for about half a hour, fending off the marines when I checked the scoreboard. Obviously, most of the marines had left the server because it was 6 aliens vs 2 marines now, so I decided to go into readyroom and join the marines to even things out. ==> You have been kicked from this server! I was just like WTH?!? <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

    That?s what I hate about some admins. If you are doing great, then you are appreciated... as long as you are on the admin?s team... <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • KnukeKnuke Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8181Members
    hmm poo, i'll try and figure out why you were banned from our server, and see if i can get you unbanned, ill reply here again when i have more news.


    PS. Sometimes the admins will kick someone to get in and play, nothing personnal...it is their server <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • FoxFlameFoxFlame Join Date: 2002-11-16 Member: 8898Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Kung Fool+Nov 16 2002, 05:02 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Kung Fool @ Nov 16 2002, 05:02 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->That´s what I hate about some admins. If you are doing great, then you are appreciated... as long as you are on the admin´s team... <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    [Rant]
    Yup. Some admins are just immature little kids who have very little control over their own lives and have created some little vanillia server to somehow assert power over others online. I logged onto some "[Gamerz]" server and found that the marines had half as many people as the aliens, the existing marines were complete newbs, and the alien team was nothing but [Gamerz] clanners. They had all three hives, and the newbies were simply running around being killed. I'd have thought they were bots if they hadn't actually spoke to me. No one was in command, and the resources had simply accumulated to an enormous amount. I slapped myself into Comm, threw down a jetpack, HMG and a welder, jumped back out and geared myself up. Since the aliens were doing nothing more than hunting newbs, they were in no way prepared for the onslaught I had instore. I'd taken out two hives by myself before they realized what was going on. By the time I took out the third, the newbs had all but quit completely, and some decent marines had joined. Now, the tables being completely turned, the admins suddenly start whining about the teams being unfair. Bear in mind there were no complaints from admin when the marines were being owned.
    So what do they do? Start kicking the people who were killing them the most, apparently in an attempt to get the server back to the way it was when I first logged on. I simply reconnected and kept coming at them with jetpack and HMG.
    What's the next thing they do? An alien goes Marine and begins destroying everything in the base with a grenade launcher. We complain about the TKing and the admin claims he can't see anyone doing anything wrong. Real mature.

    Some people need to grow up. They want to feel good about killing something, let them use the bots. In the end all the marines went to another server together and left the [<b>L</b>amers] to play with themselves.

    For those of you who claim that admins should be allowed to do this as they pay for the server, I can't agree with you. Someone who decides to try out NS and runs into nothing but these lousy servers because all the good ones are full get a bad taste in their mouth and dislike the game. If there isn't already, there should be some form of blacklist on servers such as these.

    <b>Summary</b>
    If you're going to admin, do it responsibly. You may support the server, but you didn't make the game. The NS team made the game so the community who enjoys it could have fun, not so you could overcompensate for something else. Administrate as you're obligated to do so or you don't deserve to run an <b><i>any</i></b> server at all.

    [/rant]

    --Fox
  • Teufel_EldritchTeufel_Eldritch Join Date: 2002-01-28 Member: 124Members
    edited November 2002
    <!--QuoteBegin--Tomten+Nov 16 2002, 01:55 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Tomten @ Nov 16 2002, 01:55 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->That must be the most stupid thing i've ever heard. It's just plain wrong to ban someone from a server, just for playing there. It's OK if he does something wrong and break the rules, but otherwise the server admin is just retarded.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Thats your opinion and you are entitled, however you are not entiltled to play on a server just because it exists. A server op can kick/ban you for <i>any</i> reason or no reason at all. It can be because you cheated, because you swore, because you are a azzhole or just because they dont like you or whatever the server op chooses. The sooner you learn that is not your god-given right to play anywhere you choose the easier it will be for you in the long run.


    I consider a server a extension of the server ops home and I act accordingly while I am there. If a homeowner does not like me for any or no reason at all he can kick me out of his home at will. I dont have to like it I just have to do it. And so it is with everyone else. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO PLAY ANYWHERE YOU WISH. BEING ON A SERVER IS NOT A RIGHT, IT IS A PRIVLEGE.
  • TomtenTomten Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8138Members
    That's **obscenity** and you know it. If it is a public server, it should be treated as a public space. If the server-op wants to moderate what kind of people who plays on the server (unless they are disruptive) then they should have a password protected server.

    Going around protecting this kind of admin behavior is just plain wrong.
  • FoxFlameFoxFlame Join Date: 2002-11-16 Member: 8898Members
  • Teufel_EldritchTeufel_Eldritch Join Date: 2002-01-28 Member: 124Members
    edited November 2002
    Its not bullshyt. The server op pays for the server so he can do what he wants with it. Hell he can make it so everyone changes thier name to "Shyt 4 Br@inz" or get banned. That is his right, it is his server. It is your right to leave and/or not play there. No one is forcing you to play there. No one is holding a gun to your head saying that you must play there.

    Are you trying to say that a server op that pays for his connection and server cannot do with it what he wishes? If so let me know if you own any property so I can tell you what to do with it. Got a nice hot rod? Say...a 67 Chevelle? I hope so because if you do I say you are not allowed to drive it and I am. In fact I say that you must turn over that nice car to me. Ive always wanted a 67 Chevelle. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->


    [edit]
    dam censor
    [/edit]
  • evoLvingeviLevoLvingeviL Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7802Members
    edited November 2002
    Be careful. The admins are extremely and unecessarily anal about swearing. They're the freaking KGB or something about it.

    *freaks out*
    We're all going to get nuked! Run for your lives!

    Heh, I found a way to disable the swear filter, but <i>don't tell anybody</i> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> And I'm not going to prove it (right now, anyways), just trust me that I can. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Oh yeah, I was gonna talk about the topic, too. I disagree, Teufel you bad, bad swearing person (I'm such a flamer! :O). If a server is made public, it should be made fair or hacked to death by some <i>pi</i><i>ssed-off</i> decent player. The server itself isn't public, but the Internet and NS <i>is</i>. Next you'll be saying people have the right to <i>cheat</i> on public servers because its <i>their</i> client-side software. I think not.
  • Teufel_EldritchTeufel_Eldritch Join Date: 2002-01-28 Member: 124Members
    Rgr that. Ill use poop or poopy from now on. That isnt so bad now is it?
  • FoxFlameFoxFlame Join Date: 2002-11-16 Member: 8898Members
    edited November 2002
    You can drive that Chevy whereever you like, by yourself. Now, when you get passengers in tha car, you are responsible for them. If one of them has an illegal substance, you go to jail if caught with him in your car. Metaphorically, same applies to the server. You are obligated to run that server according to the standard rules. If you have your own little facist system going on, then you shouldn't be running a server. Everyone hates admins like that. If you have a group of people who like these stupid, little rules, get a passworded server because no one else wants to be subject to a bunch of demands that some loser made up because he's got an inferiority complex. People log onto NS servers to play NS; not to listen to some whiney Admin who wants to push someone around because he pathetically believes he can use the work of others to somehow elevate himself over anyone. You destroy the game far more than any TKer ever could when you admin poorly.

    --Fox
  • evoLvingeviLevoLvingeviL Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7802Members
    Word!

    Heh... this was almost a one-word post, but I caught myself.

    I agree. Well put, old boy!
  • Teufel_EldritchTeufel_Eldritch Join Date: 2002-01-28 Member: 124Members
    Ahhh but you see the server op is not responsible for those in his server like those in the car. Why? Because driving a car is a risk while playing on a server is not. True a server op should act responsibly and maturely but he doesnt <i>have to</i>. I do not necessarily agree with what a lot of server ops do but I will defend thier right to do it......just as long as it isnt illegal or whatever.


    A server op holds no resposibilty to the player whatsoever. His server his rules. Dont like it? Dont play there. Simple. There are no rules written in stone somewhere detailing what server ops are allowed to do and what they are not allowed to do. Plz show me the Rules for NS Server Admins put forth by the NS team. Oh wait! You cant because there is no such thing! Gee I wonder why that is?
  • FoxFlameFoxFlame Join Date: 2002-11-16 Member: 8898Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Teufel Eldritch+Nov 16 2002, 07:45 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Teufel Eldritch @ Nov 16 2002, 07:45 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Gee I wonder why that is?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Because people like you support them?

    Of course they *can* do it, that doesn't mean they should. I can log onto an NS server and blow up the CC as a marine, that doesn't make that right either. Playing the game isn't a right, joining a server isn't either, and neither is admining! Just because it isn't illegal doesn't mean they have the right to do it.

    It's nettiquite. It's respect. It's just straight out not being a complete and total jackass and having the maturity to interact with the players without having to abuse the power that you have at your disposal. Maybe if someone actually started removing servers from a list of servers "Approved non-moron", people would administrate a little better. I'd add the admin's WONID to a blacklist of community-wide player bans too.

    --Fox
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