blood dragon 24-hour ban Options

[Jen]

I decided to post this in public rather than clan only as he's likely to turn up here protesting innocence.

I've issued a 24 hour for blood dragon.


I initially warned him for making several kick votes on players with 0% team damage and no idle time. I asked him to provide reasons if making a kick vote otherwise I would add a ban for vote abuse.

After spectating him (and removing a few players who were tking for the cata) I spectated him attacking at least 4 players on his own team.

As such I've issued a 24 hour ban. I will say that if he returns to the server and makes a vote without a reason I'm going to kick him. If I see him damaging teammates intentionally then I'm going to change it to a permanent ban.

I wouldn't normally ask players to provide reasons for kickvotes, but the shear number of votes that seem to have no merit forces me to do it.

thanks,

Jen

screenshots and recorded video of above available, if you guys want it

[MonkeyFiend]

[Muk]

Be warned, he is becoming very popular and you may find yourself in deep trouble if you decide to take action againsts him.............

He made about 7 or 8 vote kicks in a row when i was on because of "team damage". I made a vote against him and he was voted out first time with 28% team damage.

Maybe if there was a way to just remove his ability to vote for anything? ryanuk has become a rare sight and i think we would all miss our special characters if they are perma banned.

[TurboMidget]

All I ever get are annoyed messages saying someone should kick him out. I feel somewhat sorry for the guy, but he can be a pain.

And who's ryanuk?

[Muk]

ryanuk ran around shouting help me constantly and uses nothing but fists, ever. His perseverance was something to be admired.

[TurboMidget]

There's a guy called Farmer nowadays. Does weird things, though he keeps quiet. Have seen him slaughter armies with his fists only. Me and couple of others have started referring to him as our mute best friend.

The thing with Blood Dragon however is that he constantly keeps typing lol in the chatbox (there are times when you see nothing else in that box) and he keeps starting votes. He stops for some time when you tell him to, but continues after you leave. It isn't the fun kind of annoying, it's just kind of annoying.

[MonkeyFiend]

Farmer and RyanUK have been on the server a long long time. In fact ryanuk appeared on the first day we created a server

They are a little odd, not talking and fighting in... unconventional ways however this is essentially their choice, since they're not breaking rules. The argument that the slot could better be utilised by someone playing TO is debateable, since for example ryan often scores highly, so technically even using fists he's still probably more dangerous than half of the new recruits to the game

Unless we decide to ban fists (which I doubt would happen) then ryan UK primarily using fists would be fine. He's actually pretty handy (!) with them too

Blood dragon however is not just playing unconventionally, I had a look at the match in question and aside from the usual amount of blooddragon chat garbage spewed, he was votekicking without any reason and kicking teammates.

In actuality, Jenny gave a 24 hour ban after already stopping a kickvote on him to warn him that he'd get a ban if continued to be an arse. If I'd been online at the time, it would have been a permanent ban, but was Jenny's choice at the end of the day.

There's technically no way to prevent one player from voting.. the vote system is either on for everyone, on for admins only or off.

Regarding any potential backlash of taking action; I strongly believe that the rules stand for everyone, regardless of position or popularity. For this reason I'd have no qualms in banning for intentional TKing or racism regardless whether it was a random player, a regular player or clan member.

I will however keep a closer eye on blood dragon.

[Meowric]

hold on who's blood dragon popular with? clan members or members of the public?

imo while the chat spam he produces is annoying I'll probably just ignore it, if its just quantity.

If he breaks the rules though he should just be banned. Also if he was intentionally tking why was the ban a 24 hour ban rather than permanent?

[Muk]

Oh, i wasn't being serious about saying he was popular lol sorry wasn't suppose to sound serious if it does.

[MonkeyFiend]

Assume this has sorted itself out as I notice blood dragon has a perma ban on the carnage server. This is due to be copied by cron job to the archer limited server in the next day or so.

[Meowric]

wasn't me

[McJaffa]

He was on yesterday again and I seem to remember him making a dick of himself, although I didn't manage to get any screenshots. I think he may have been kicked though by Ironfist for the same thing. He obviously didn't learn until he got the permaban.