So this is mainly me venting because of a 30 minute experience I had earlier this morning but I feel like i have some valid points worth mentioning.
First off, earlier today 2 spinbotters got on with me being the only +member on. I messaged a couple mods / admins and all of them were snooze or away, but thats not the point.
Since I was the only +member on I had to do everything I could to not let the 2 spinbotters completely ruin the server so I added slays to them, at first they did rdm so the slays were reasonable but after that I kept adding slays so they couldn't just kill everyone when they round started. Adding slays to people may not have been the best thing to do but they did not have the intentions to stop so I felt like that was the best thing I could do. In reality that was all I could do. After them being slain they just micspammed, advertised their cheats, and said the n word multiple times. After the initial rdm and slays, I called a voteban to get one of them banned. The vote ended having him not banned because 7/19 people voted. Some people were alive and some may have been afk but I know for me, voteban doesnt even work when I press 1 for me, so I cant even vote in a situation like that. Being able to call votebans and votekicks is completely useless when sometimes it will be over half the people voting yes and the person doesn't get banned.
The point im trying to get at, Being a +member obviously is a good thing and helps, but in that situation, I was doing everything I could and I was still useless. All I could do was slay them but they could still micspam, advertise their website, and walk all over me and the server. I feel like +members need more abilities. I know that a +member isn't classified as "staff" and the intentions of a +member isn't to handle big things like that, but being able to ban for at most 1 day and being able to gag / mute would be great. Being able to ban for even 1 hour would a at least give time for a higher up staff to handle the situation. Handling reports late night is great but when there is any kind of further issue then just rdm, there is nothing I can do. It's not like "randoms" get promoted anyway, active and good-reputation players get promoted and if they abuse their powers all that is going to happen is their abilities get taken away and everything is voided. So what would be the big deal by giving us a the ability to ban for a short period of time and mute / gag.
There are only 2 staff that come to mind that are actually active almost every day on TTT.
There are 5+ that are constantly on and have more playtime then most others.
First off, earlier today 2 spinbotters got on with me being the only +member on. I messaged a couple mods / admins and all of them were snooze or away, but thats not the point.
Since I was the only +member on I had to do everything I could to not let the 2 spinbotters completely ruin the server so I added slays to them, at first they did rdm so the slays were reasonable but after that I kept adding slays so they couldn't just kill everyone when they round started. Adding slays to people may not have been the best thing to do but they did not have the intentions to stop so I felt like that was the best thing I could do. In reality that was all I could do. After them being slain they just micspammed, advertised their cheats, and said the n word multiple times. After the initial rdm and slays, I called a voteban to get one of them banned. The vote ended having him not banned because 7/19 people voted. Some people were alive and some may have been afk but I know for me, voteban doesnt even work when I press 1 for me, so I cant even vote in a situation like that. Being able to call votebans and votekicks is completely useless when sometimes it will be over half the people voting yes and the person doesn't get banned.
The point im trying to get at, Being a +member obviously is a good thing and helps, but in that situation, I was doing everything I could and I was still useless. All I could do was slay them but they could still micspam, advertise their website, and walk all over me and the server. I feel like +members need more abilities. I know that a +member isn't classified as "staff" and the intentions of a +member isn't to handle big things like that, but being able to ban for at most 1 day and being able to gag / mute would be great. Being able to ban for even 1 hour would a at least give time for a higher up staff to handle the situation. Handling reports late night is great but when there is any kind of further issue then just rdm, there is nothing I can do. It's not like "randoms" get promoted anyway, active and good-reputation players get promoted and if they abuse their powers all that is going to happen is their abilities get taken away and everything is voided. So what would be the big deal by giving us a the ability to ban for a short period of time and mute / gag.
There are only 2 staff that come to mind that are actually active almost every day on TTT.
There are 5+ that are constantly on and have more playtime then most others.
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