Cheating admins?! What to do?
Cheating admins?! What to do?
Sorry for a crosspost under "Players", but this forum seems more appropriate.
What to do with an admin that is a registered player, and openly cheats on his own server, by continously giving himself the GM flag immediately after spawn.
(no flags listed in his flaghistory, whatsoever, mine and others listings were fine.)
This gives the player an unfair advantage against his opponents, where the admin seriously abuses his powers.
I was also told to "get lost" (being polite here), when i pointed out the highly inappropriate in this behavior of an admin, and that it was his right to do this, as he made the server. (as if that should change anything, when it comes to a fair game).
I am not complaining for the sake of complaining, as i won over them, big time, but i do hate it when people cheat, whatever way, to get an advantage that ordinary players does not get or have.
I think that this should be taken and treated as a plain cheat, just as any other cheat out there, only not performed by means of changed client code, but by means of adminship.
Who do i talk to, that regulates these things here on the forums/registrations, when it is the site owner is the offender?
Can anything be done in situations like this? Should any actions be taken?
What to do with an admin that is a registered player, and openly cheats on his own server, by continously giving himself the GM flag immediately after spawn.
(no flags listed in his flaghistory, whatsoever, mine and others listings were fine.)
This gives the player an unfair advantage against his opponents, where the admin seriously abuses his powers.
I was also told to "get lost" (being polite here), when i pointed out the highly inappropriate in this behavior of an admin, and that it was his right to do this, as he made the server. (as if that should change anything, when it comes to a fair game).
I am not complaining for the sake of complaining, as i won over them, big time, but i do hate it when people cheat, whatever way, to get an advantage that ordinary players does not get or have.
I think that this should be taken and treated as a plain cheat, just as any other cheat out there, only not performed by means of changed client code, but by means of adminship.
Who do i talk to, that regulates these things here on the forums/registrations, when it is the site owner is the offender?
Can anything be done in situations like this? Should any actions be taken?
Here's how it is though, if the owner of the map/server cheats, not much can be done. If the person owns it the person can do whatever he/she wants to it.
Am i right? I might not be but that's what I understand about it.
If they choose to do that then fine, that map won't get any real popularity.
If s/he's cheating on servers s/he Does Not own then that is a ban on spot. If s/he does own it then....what an idiot.
P.S Im also sry for the cross post. I replied to Ghost. under a different topic, then realised he made this 1 afterwards
Am i right? I might not be but that's what I understand about it.
If they choose to do that then fine, that map won't get any real popularity.
If s/he's cheating on servers s/he Does Not own then that is a ban on spot. If s/he does own it then....what an idiot.
P.S Im also sry for the cross post. I replied to Ghost. under a different topic, then realised he made this 1 afterwards
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Nobody "regulates" this sort of thing.
If someone pays hundreds of dollars to host a bzflag server, they can do damn well what they like on that server. If you don't like it, "get lost" like they told you to.
If someone pays hundreds of dollars to host a bzflag server, they can do damn well what they like on that server. If you don't like it, "get lost" like they told you to.
Map owners do not necessarily have any such right - the map owner may also be the server owner, but not in all cases.Grace F wrote:if the owner of the map/server cheats, not much can be done.
Uh... s/spot/sight/ ?Grace F wrote:a ban on spot.
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Green Manalishi wrote:i would boycott that loser's server.. AND keep his callsign on my mind. if someone is that low to give themselves superflags on their server, they are liable to try and cheat elsewhere too.
Now, that's the point of this.
The looser in this case happens to be the nick "dfwrestler91", running a copy of "big fat fortress" by Spazzy McGee. (It's not spazzy's map tho! he's got nothing to do with this, other than making the map.)
I think we all seen over time that admins that allow themselves cheating on their server, soon extends it to doing that elsewhere, just because they don't know how to play by fair means...
server owners can do what they want. it is there server.
the project will not allow listing of servers that advertise that they are "cheat servers".
There is NOTHING anyone can do to change how a server owner runs his server. Leave it at that. Just don't play there. End of story.
If they told you to get lost, then do so. You have NO right to play on there hardware.
The project only manages the software and the global login system. It does not manage the servers. If it did, we would not include the server software so anyone can make a server.
It's simply the nature of open hosting, you will have people that do things you don't agree with, just as you will do things others don't agree with. Same in life.
the project will not allow listing of servers that advertise that they are "cheat servers".
There is NOTHING anyone can do to change how a server owner runs his server. Leave it at that. Just don't play there. End of story.
If they told you to get lost, then do so. You have NO right to play on there hardware.
The project only manages the software and the global login system. It does not manage the servers. If it did, we would not include the server software so anyone can make a server.
It's simply the nature of open hosting, you will have people that do things you don't agree with, just as you will do things others don't agree with. Same in life.
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Wait... It's not Spazzy's map, but Spazzy made the map...? WTF?Ghost. wrote:It's not spazzy's map tho! he's got nothing to do with this, other than making the map.
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Spazzy's map...
CannonBallGuy wrote:Wait... It's not Spazzy's map, but Spazzy made the map...? WTF?Ghost. wrote:It's not spazzy's map tho! he's got nothing to do with this, other than making the map.
Think you misunderstood me.. (and me being slightly sloppy with the explanation.)
It's spazzy who made the map, but it's running on a different server, not controlled by Spazzy. Spazzy has, in other words, nothing to do with this, other than being the guy who made the map. That's what i am saying.
It's dfwrestler91 running a copy of spazzy's map on his server.
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Re: Spazzy's map...
I was questioning the "It's not spazzy's map tho".Ghost. wrote:CannonBallGuy wrote:Wait... It's not Spazzy's map, but Spazzy made the map...? WTF?Ghost. wrote:It's not spazzy's map tho! he's got nothing to do with this, other than making the map.
Think you misunderstood me.. (and me being slightly sloppy with the explanation.)
It's spazzy who made the map, but it's running on a different server, not controlled by Spazzy. Spazzy has, in other words, nothing to do with this, other than being the guy who made the map. That's what i am saying.
It's dfwrestler91 running a copy of spazzy's map on his server.
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Re: Spazzy's map...
I was questioning the "It's not spazzy's map tho".[/quote]
Ok..... nitpicking myself... should have said "it's not spazzy's server tho"...
Ok..... nitpicking myself... should have said "it's not spazzy's server tho"...
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Did I? You can read my thoughts across the interwebz? No? Didn't think so.Green Manalishi wrote:you knew very well that he meant to say 'server' instead of 'map' there.
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CannonBallGuy wrote:Did I? You can read my thoughts across the interwebz? No? Didn't think so.Green Manalishi wrote:you knew very well that he meant to say 'server' instead of 'map' there.
anyone with a little bzflag experince (which you sure have) and 60+ IQ (which i hope you have) would understand that he had made a trivial mistake there by picking the wrong word.. yet, since your primary motivation to be on the forum is to gloat over people's mistakes and make fun of them, that was just another opportunity not to be missed.
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Thanks for the callsign. I have seen him on my server, I'll watch for cheating. Although I have to say if he was cheating on my server it didn't do him any good. Sounds like the admin was not cheating as in 'cheat client' but he was certainly abusing his 'adminship'.
I think this sums it up:
I did not know that, good!JeffM2501 wrote: the project will not allow listing of servers that advertise that they are "cheat servers".
I think this sums it up:
JeffM2501 wrote: There is NOTHING anyone can do to change how a server owner runs his server. Leave it at that. Just don't play there. End of story.
[quote="anomaly"]Thanks for the callsign. I have seen him on my server, I'll watch for cheating. Although I have to say if he was cheating on my server it didn't do him any good. "
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[quote="anomaly"]Sounds like the admin was not cheating as in 'cheat client' but he was certainly abusing his 'adminship'.
That's true. It was not a cheat client, as i stated in the first post, i believe, but certainly some serious abuse of adminship, and as others pointed out, this usually extends...
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[quote="anomaly"]Sounds like the admin was not cheating as in 'cheat client' but he was certainly abusing his 'adminship'.
That's true. It was not a cheat client, as i stated in the first post, i believe, but certainly some serious abuse of adminship, and as others pointed out, this usually extends...
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Yeah, If someone is running a server, they can do whatever they want with it.
You don't have to go there, however, and if this server owner is doing what you say, I predict his server will not gain much popularity.
I saw that spazzy's map was being used two days ago and told him about it, he didn't seem to have a problem with it.
You don't have to go there, however, and if this server owner is doing what you say, I predict his server will not gain much popularity.
I saw that spazzy's map was being used two days ago and told him about it, he didn't seem to have a problem with it.
Take a look at my Defender game mode concept.
Thinking is not an automatic process. A man can choose to think or to let his mind stagnate, or he can choose actively to turn against his intelligence, to evade his knowledge, to subvert his reason. If he refuses to think, he courts disaster: he cannot with impunity reject his means of perceiving reality.
Thinking is not an automatic process. A man can choose to think or to let his mind stagnate, or he can choose actively to turn against his intelligence, to evade his knowledge, to subvert his reason. If he refuses to think, he courts disaster: he cannot with impunity reject his means of perceiving reality.
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I don't care about the usage of the map, so long as I'm credited as map maker, and not associated with the owners of the server.
Anywho, it's not a very good map in the first place. Just steer clear of any servers where you see admins acting like idiots. It's not like you don't have a choice about which server to play on - there are a couple of hundred.
Anywho, it's not a very good map in the first place. Just steer clear of any servers where you see admins acting like idiots. It's not like you don't have a choice about which server to play on - there are a couple of hundred.
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Map..
Never saw a credit, but that might be me missing it.Spazzy Mcgee wrote:I don't care about the usage of the map, so long as I'm credited as map maker, and not associated with the owners of the server.
It's not as bad as you may think =)Spazzy Mcgee wrote:Anywho, it's not a very good map in the first place.
Like it, actually.
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The original post about Ghost saying that it wasn't the map was just a way of saying the map was not the problem. An administrator giving himself superflags is so very lame... yet it's true, it is his/her server, so they can jolly well do as they please. However, I doubt they will have a big crowd if the administration is poor. Part of what made servers like Silvercat or Secretplace so fun and popular (I think) was the administration so, he can do what he likes... but when he's there by himself eventually he'll be bored. All I can say is try to find another host for the map (if you wish to play on it still), or just avoid the server... I suppose warning others as well. But as has been said, you can't do anything about it other than that.