Someone makes a logical point and this is the response.
I'm not sure it even makes sense.
Let me make something clear, I applied for this because the admin we have/had (fluxcap) has started another job and been busy lately. We had a hacker come in the other night who was literally shooting BEHIND him. Camping camper and Mr.Turtle can verify this. It was around 1:30am EST and !votereport failed because he was changing name too much.
This is the only type of situation that I would ever
want to kick someone. Sure there are trouble makers and racists, but it's the hackers who hurt the server the most.
After trying in vain to get an admin, he was booted by source which I suppose is just as well anyway since a source ban seems like it supersedes a skial ban. Server died anyway shortly after as a result.
If you don't play on turbine, let me try and explain to the uninitiated.
We have a small, fairly tight-knit community that play there regularly and play there often. Most everyone knows everyone.
As TF2 has been slowly dying (and will drop again after x-mas) turbine doesn't run all night all the time like it used too. Most of the night time crowd (the people who don't start playing till 10pm) usually clear out by 1am and there is a lull in the server. This is the moment that determines if it will have a second wind or not. If bots come in, it's over for the night, but if you can keep it going till 2am, then a whole new crowd of people come in and it will stay open past 4.
The only decent admin turbine has ever is fluxcap, and as I mentioned above, he can't always be reached. Other admins that come in abuse the server, like this douchebag for instance
http://i.imgur.com/TzQPYjq.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/eyyvDtQ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/gbd2CCo.jpg
((see all 3 images) roughly 2 weeks ago)
This clown was getting dominated and decided he'd rather just turn
noclip on rather than legitimately get revenge.
So please believe me when I say that while I appreciate the bureaucracy (heh) of your little forum here, the entire admin application system seems like a farce of red tape.
I hadn't been on the forums for so long I forgot how insane it is.
I do smoke a lot of weed and have my whole life. My voice always sounds kind of fucked up- I'm in my 30's now and it's just kind of stuck that way. I didn't know that would be a qualifier. My apologies.
Thank you Munch.
and finally,
Some of you apparently think that being an admin is some kind of
privilege. I look at it as a
chore.
I've been admin on many servers over the years, and the one thing they all had in common was,
admin is a zero-pay job, with nothing but headaches for benefits
I assume you have a bunch of people abusing admin (see above link - you're vetting process seems to be lacking) but honestly the thought never crossed my mind. I saw a message in console
ASKING for
REGULARS to apply. I thought I was helping out skial and the turbine community by being willing to take on this
burden, but instead I'm greeted with snarky comments by people who [some of which] don't even play tf2.
Go ahead and lock the thread down. This is my official withdrawal. I don't need this crap. If Bottiger asks me to re-apply sometime in the future I might consider it. For now- fuck this noise.
P.S. piss off- Farrah lol