good evenorninoonight
I've made this post because I'm starting to get concerned a bit following the recent ban appeal that went a little bit to shit. I'm concerned that we're beginning to jump the gun a bit due to paranoia from the "moles" or whatever and as a result we are too trigger happy and as a consequence are banning innocent users for no good reason when they're doing nothing wrong, or are doing just general suspicious things
I want to say: make sure you know what you are doing before you ban
honestly I was arguing for allowing bans for circumstantial reasons, videogamesm12 knows full well how much of a fuss I made about that, but recent events made me realise that I don't frankly think people on the server are able to do this in a way that is suitable. i am not innocent of this myself (e.g. G6_ ban) but my point here is that we need to learn from this and move forward before it becomes a big problem
another thing i want to touch on, again something I'm guilty of myself, which is being unfairly stubborn when it comes to incidents or events. if something comes to light, it's up to us as a team to make sure we are being as unbiased and reasonable as possible. the latest appeal has concerned me because we're drifting towards an absolutist mentality where ignorance for the rules = malice. i want to make it very clear: ops who join and break the rules aren't necessarily moles and shouldn't be treated unfairly unless they prove to be a member of the moles. if they are, ban and move on.
some people join, see "totalfreedom", and assume they can do anything. this is understandable and i don't see why we shouldn't be giving second chances if they explain themselves. if they then repeat the behaviour then yes ban them but I'm getting tired of seeing admins be like "no you broke the rules stay banned" when they're clearly just lacking knowledge of the server and how we work. tell me: how many of you join a server and immediately do /rules? why would you do it on a server called "total freedom"
at base value just think what it's like to be the other person. think from a perspective that isn't that of an admin, from a perspective of someone brand new who hasn't heard of tf before and wants to join our community, they will not know anything and therefore may not be used to our ruleset
I'm saying now, I'm not eao or even anything important, but if i do see this being done to a ridiculous extent i will suspend mfs myself, before forwarding all information to the eao team
thanks
luke phrman