For your amusement:
I received an email from someone who had contacted Sirus about a kick he felt wronged about. (Contacted Sirus? lolwut)
Sirus forwarded me the email.
From: Guy Regnier <
graphguy@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 6, 2008 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: TF2 server
To: Sirusdv
Hi,
I appreciated your sincere reply. I do not know the admin, he only
told me to shutup and when I complained the second time in open text I
was kicked with the message that the admin had kicked me.
The player was not a name that made any sense in terms of a name, just
what looked to be a bunch of characters. He was a medic and I could
tell he was hacking because 4,5 people would be shooting at him and he
would not die but would be able move and jump to another spot very
very fast to miss the shots. I am not an average player I always can
have one of the top scores on a team so I am not just whining about
getting killed etc. It is just that players who cheat make the game
distateful. I am not familiar with the controls or logging ability
for TF2 at the admin level, but I just wanted to express what I saw.
Thanks again.
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Now, this had me worried, "Oh no," I thought, "I need to investigate this right away.
I contacted him this morning.
Quote:Hello, I run the Tempest Servers.
Which admin are we talking about here?
We take these accusations very seriously and I need to know who we're dealing with.
Can you give me a rough estimate of the date and time of this event? This will help me check logs and get some answers.
I hope once we figure this out you'll give us another chance. We strive to run as good a TF2 server as possible.
We've had some bad egg admins before and I want to ensure that this one, if it is truly the case, is removed before any more damage is done.
Here is a list of our admins, can you spot the one?
WDF
Splinter
Dragon
Old_Guy
Delilah
Don
Target Practice
Cantrip
Bike
Snooch
Deedz
Dick
Nate
Illwill
Bitch
Endyss
Pimp
Gunslinger
Sam Hall
Horsie
Terminator
llenta
jase
Qazster
gnar
Xfactor
Smackdaddy
KYFHO
Also, a quick way to get a response is to simply post in our forums at wdfnews.com.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Now, I was sure I'd get to the bottom of this!
I was wrong.
Quote:HI,
Unfortunately I don't know the admin, you can't tell who it is when you are kicked. The message just says, "Admin kicked you" = paraphrasing, it doesn't say "JOE kicked you".
I am glad you do take this seriously and I wish I had more information but it all happened so fast I wasn't able to get the information. I truly appreciated your reply. I thought maybe server logs would show this information, but that is ok. thanks again for your attention.
They do show the information. I just need a date and time... I asked for it... didn't get it. I'll try again.
Quote:
The logs do show this information. I need to know which timeframe to look in though and what name you were using. I have 2000 logs. I need to narrow it down.
I was sure that was simple enough to understand.
I was wrong.
Quote:I was logged on as 'infidel'.
Thanks
Um... that's half of what I asked for... ok.... So once more.
Quote:
Without the time of day and the day this happened I can't do anything.
But then I got to thinking. This seems really easy... tell me when it happened... I check... we work this out... etc.
Why is following basic direction a challenge for this person?
I decided to go digging.
I went log fishing, as I often do. It's like a hobby. Most of the time I don't catch anything, but sometimes I catch a whopper... like today.
This is the last email I sent to him:
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The more I thought this over and the fact that you clearly don't read my emails close enough to realize I've asked multiple times for the time of day led me to believe your story was bogus.
It was.
The #1 rule of our server is don't be a dick. Let's see how you faired:
"Infidel<639><STEAM_0:1:5818082><Blue>" say "nice hack faggot"
We don't tolerate slurs of any kind.
"Infidel<639><STEAM_0:1:5818082><Blue>" say "buskilis is hacking big time"
"Infidel<639><STEAM_0:1:5818082><Blue>" say "fucking faggot, I ever catch a little faggot like you on the street. I slit you open"
Oh, you've got 'em runnin' scared now, tough guy.
"Infidel<639><STEAM_0:1:5818082><Blue>" say "fuck off that asswipe is hacking"
Remarkable, going through the logs, you're the only one that has seen this "speed hack." Everyone else seems to think everything is fine.
Then one of my admins followed server protocol by asking you to cool it.
"{pDs}TargetPractice<612><STEAM_0:0:8341804><Blue>" say "better cool infidel"
To which you responded:
"Infidel<639><STEAM_0:1:5818082><Blue>" say "fuck off that asswipe is hacking"
Now, I know there are lots of other servers for you to play on. I'd like to know how many admins tolerate players telling them to "fuck off."
"Infidel<639><STEAM_0:1:5818082><Blue>" disconnected (reason "Kicked by administrator")
There are lots of other servers to play on. Go play on them. You're no longer welcome in ours. Consider yourself banned.
Oh, P.S.
"I know jealousy sucks, I also make 250,000/year".
"actually dumb shit I have a MBA and 2 other undergrad degrees so blow me lil girl".
lol. No you don't.
For more of your awesome quotes please visit http://crypt.hlstatsx.com/?mode=chathistory&player=49086&page=1 ,where you prove to the world that you have two MBA's. It shows!
For someone who claims to have two MBA's, you'd think you would have been smart enough to just let it go with a kick. By contacting us, you had to know we'd look through the logs. I mean, any idiot would know that.
Did you really think we'd see you in the right?
Cya.
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As a result of him even contacting me, he's now perma-banned as opposed to just kicked.
Putting those MBAs to good use!
I hope you've enjoyed this. I did.
