Should 2dum be restored to full chat privledges?

[M1SERY]

   You can leave clan BTF out of this. You're going to have a hard time proving anyone in the clan has said shit to you. So please stfu and die already!

[|iR|Focalor]

Once all the normal mature people are gone, this place will be fucking AWESOME!

To make it short and sweet... The rules are:
No racist/hate speech.

I think that pretty much sums up the established rules for gameplay around here. Talking shit is fine, but when it goes ON AND ON AND ON AND ON FOREVER AND EVER and it repeatedly disrupts the game for everyone else, then it's a problem and something must be done to remedy it.

Too bad it's not applied to the forums. mr. soon to be 10,000 posts

Dude. Really. You're the only one to blame for the reason why everyone doesn't like you. In fact, that's just how you want it. All you do is troll around the forums looking to disagree with whatever the predominate opinion on any matter is. For some reason, you think it makes you cool to dissent with whatever the popular opinion is, like you're some kinda free-thinking rebel, like you're some kinda noble fist of opposition to the status quo. You're yet another one who has gotten exactly what he asked for and then chooses to cry like a baby about it. Your game is as transparent as glass. Get over yourself.

But pointing out the racist thing is a good point when it comes to providing example of just how lenient the rules can be around here. I've said a few things that were racist before. But because I don't keep on and on and on with it for every single post, the more drastic admin measures to correct my behavior are usually never required. Because I know when to stop and I know where the line is and not to cross it too far. When people keep pushing and pushing their luck... they get dealt with, just like this asshole.

[quadz]

So, mostly out of curiosity, was this guy initially half-muted for talking trash? Because I never witnessed him spamming the server or doing anything else to merit it and I usually saw him around most nights when I'd go on to play (he sometimes greeted me with 'fuck you elysium', which I thought was kind of funny).

His behavior has generated complaints for a few months now, but the volume of complaints had been low enough that it hadn't initially prompted a mute -- but he was certainly on the radar.

He was also already under a playername restriction, since he was spoofing playernames a couple months ago:

|playername|server|          ip|                          hostname|  last_seen|
|      2dum|    dm|24.5.101.119|c-24-5-101-119.hsd1.ca.comcast.net|66 days ago|
|   Elysium|    dm|24.5.101.119|c-24-5-101-119.hsd1.ca.comcast.net|66 days ago|
|    kratox|    dm|24.5.101.119|c-24-5-101-119.hsd1.ca.comcast.net|66 days ago|
|  Warkilla|    dm|24.5.101.119|c-24-5-101-119.hsd1.ca.comcast.net|66 days ago|


So we have a name-restricted player generating a steady but low-volume stream of complaints over a span of months, which each time I'd investigate, the server logs would reveal what appeared to be a campaign of continual and unrelenting asshattery.

Finally a week or so ago, I received two complaints within the span of an hour, and so the half-mute was added. Generally when I've applied a half-mute, my reasoning is: Let's see if this reduces the volume and frequency of issues related to this person's behavior.

As to why some players (also behaving like asshats) get muted sooner or later than others, it tends to be related to the volume of complaints generated. Apparently some players can be abrasive while lacking some quintessential surplus value of douchebaggery that triggers issue reports.

As for the recent full mute, we've always been pretty strict about unwanted private message spam. PM's on the Q2 servers not only can't be seen by wallfly, they're not logged at all. So when it starts happening, my instinct is to shut it down fast until the perpetrator agrees to cease & desist.

etc. etc.

[Zeppelin]

PM's on the Q2 servers not only can't be seen by wallfly, they're not logged at all.

 

I thought they were all logged!
Not even on the dedicated.exe console?

[quadz]

I thought they were all logged!
Not even on the dedicated.exe console?

The PM's are handled by q2admin.

It's possible to enable logging, but I've never done it. So long as players don't abuse the system (i.e. unwanted PM's) then I don't need to know what they're saying.

[adz1La]

sucks being old..I will say though, random isn't exactly some random newbie 

[haunted]

I've known him since 02 or 03 or so.

[Whirlingdervish]

anyone registereing to prop up 2dum and chip in with a "oh it's the internets there are no rules so we should all get to act like fucking twats herpaderp" post deserves the scorn heaped on them.

association with the eclectic llamas or w/e rick's shitty ra2 clan was, just earns you another negative point.
That's right homer, I said it. COME AT ME.

[haunted]

I know him from azbok's as Emerica.. I tried him out for admin level 3 or 4 if I remember right haha.

[Acer]

quintessential surplus value of douchebaggery

Wouldn't this make a good T-shirt!

[quadz]

quintessential surplus value of douchebaggery

Wouldn't this make a good T-shirt!

I think they already exist.

[haunted]

[X'tyfe]

It's bad enough that he comes from a town only an hour away from where I live.

[fdrjk]

quintessential surplus value of douchebaggery

Wouldn't this make a good T-shirt!

I think they already exist.

omg lol. I see 13 year olds at my school wear those ugly abominations all the time.

[random]

Haunted I've known u since before az's, and no I wasn't emerica lol fuk that.. Did u ever play railwaz btw? Can't remember

For the record I was never in [el]..hell no. El is the in spanish so that's why I mock the tag.
If anyone ever played worldogl u know who I or my clan was, which was immortal.

And thanks for proving my point. Until now I have failed to call anyone names,
I simply said we are all guilty men since we all do that trash talk,  so far I've had 5 kids Try to diss me without me ever mentioning their names lol...