Afro Priest

Somewhat Threatening Sniper
Contributor
Names: *MN* Killamo #MG Sucks Dick, ender-loaf
T.O.A: About 1:30 AM EST
Server IP:
108.60.149.51:27015
IDs:
  • Killammo: STEAM_0:0:257059
  • Ender: STEAM_0:1:41985751

Screenshots: Just one, and it's of the chat of one of the voteban spam.
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Notice how I never called a vote on anyone. Ever.

Any other evidence: I didn't have any recording software at that time ready to use and they were using voicechat. I took one screenshot to prove they were accusing me of voteban spamming, but I've attached whatever I could scrape from the console. I'd record a demo if I weren't stupid enough not to Google how to do it quickly. Terribly sorry about that. (Download it and open with notepad. Should work fine. Search for "Started a vote" it's right there.)

IF THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO, I'LL UNDERSTAND. IT'S MY FAULT I COULDN'T PROVIDE SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE. I JUST WANTED TO GET THE WORD OUT. THANKS.

While their attempts to voteban me were unsuccessful, it surely left a mark (seeing as how I was votemuted by an admin named Verden™, though I accuse him of nothing, I said explicit things which I tend to do for fun. Wasn't warned before that so I don't know if profanity is even allowed).

Anything bolded below is important. Tl;dr stuff basically.

Let me do a brief summary here: I join a server I go to almost regularly. It's a Skial server, which always tends to give me good ping. It's 2fort too, my favorite map. A map, which I must point out, is NOT melee-only. I join only to find a server full of people melee-fighting only. I give it a try but find it terribly boring. I switch to using sentries and guns at will. Then the trouble with the two mentioned begins. They start getting more and more "upset" that I am not complying with their rules they so gracefully made and were enforcing it on a server they didn't own. Why did I not stop using ranged because two random people wanted me to? It's within my full rights to do so, I believe (if not, slap me on the wrist and ban me for however long you want. I'd rather not play on a server chain with such rules). How did they enforce it you may ask? By attempting to voteban me for spamming votebans of course (I see the irony in it as much as you probably do)! This keeps up for a while and I trade the Killamo person, where I tried to clear the problem, tell him what I can and can't do on this server and tried settling it. He just repeated that all the people on this server wanted melee only and that's what he was trying to keep. After I restate my rights, he ignored me (by this time a good half of the server was using guns and it felt very personal). Several attempts were made to try and voteban me, all of which failed by a few votes. Let me make it clear that these graceful vigilantes weren't hesitant to use guns against me whenever they saw me. It's just I got away with killing them most of the time is what seemed to have pulled their triggers (I can only surely speak for Ender).

Other fun stuff:
  • Killamo was holding the BLU intel at all times while being RED so no one on my team could cap. Forcing the server not to play the intended game, strike one.
  • No one, including Ender hesitated to use non-melee against me. I just seemed to get away with killing them most of the time. Strike two?
  • They insulted me straight up for... playing the game as intended? In voicechat mostly, can't prove. Steeerike three!
  • An admin was on there, seeing it all happen, doing nothing. Not naming any names here, that's touchy stuff I don't wanna get into. (Just saying)
  • Apparently someone stated I was "trolling" by umm... using guns... in TF2... on 2fort... I'm such a criminal aren't I?
BOTTOM LINE:
You can check any logs you want, it'd come right back to my story. I'm ready to prove what I can. I only want them to know what they've done isn't right and they can't go about expecting everyone to comply. The more directly any penalization affects them, the better. If all of this somehow turns out to be my fault, I'll gladly accept any penalization/bans/permanent bans. I'm a justice kinda person ._.

My history with Skial: I've been playing on Skial servers for a long time, never gotten banned (that I'm aware of). No reports whatsoever (yet again, that I'm aware of). I have over 3.6k AP that I've gathered over the times (this server in particular needs donations to let me use the /hat command but that's not what I'm here for). Just a regular ol' player playing the regular ol' game on familiar servers.

Thank you very much for your time.
 
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Longest report eh? I like my details :)
Very glad you're looking into it. I assumed he was an admin because he was /sm_saying to the whole server, but on second thought may as well have been a server donor.

EDIT: To add, I wasn't the exact gentleman on the server either. I severely misinterpreted a skial admin(I think) to be supporting the melee only rule, to whom I did some cold-talking. I'll apologize next time I see him, because he seemed to have been on my cause the whole time.
 
maybe he's incompetent

ideally though maybe he was planning on doing something about it

maybe
 
seeing as how I was votemuted by an admin named Verden™
Admins don't vote mute. We have our own command to mute and gag people without calling any votes. If someone says they're an admin, and only uses votes instead of commands. They're lying.
 
I'm not kicking/banning because some people wanted to melee only. If they want to melee they can go ahead and try and get mowed down by people using ranged weapons. It would have also emptied out the server as a good number of people were doing it. Other than only meleeing they were still playing the objective and the server wasn't completely full. After awhile they just gave up and started playing normally. However I'm not alright with forcing people to comply, e.g. the vote abuse. I wasn't around when they called votes against Afro (I think there was one vote but I don't remember against who and it was the only one so far.) but he said he had proof, so I said he should post it on the forums and I or someone else would get to it.
 
Longest report eh? I like my details :)
Very glad you're looking into it. I assumed he was an admin because he was /sm_saying to the whole server, but on second thought may as well have been a server donor.

EDIT: To add, I wasn't the exact gentleman on the server either. I severely misinterpreted a skial admin(I think) to be supporting the melee only rule, to whom I did some cold-talking. I'll apologize next time I see him, because he seemed to have been on my cause the whole time.
Here is a list of all admins: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/skial-admins

Killammo is not a donator, but he is VAC-Banned: SteamRep and VAC website (linking to his ban directly don't seems to work)
Ender is also not a donator.
So how do they use green text in chat?

Chatlogs:
Killammo http://www.skial.com/stats/hlstats.php?mode=chathistory&player=419521
Ender http://www.skial.com/stats/hlstats.php?mode=chathistory&player=1334137
Afro Priest http://www.skial.com/stats/hlstats.php?mode=chathistory&player=1263111
dgoodman http://www.skial.com/stats/hlstats.php?mode=chathistory&player=87515
 
I think I was the only one using /say. And only one line I think. Usually I use it for when saying something as an admin. This convo I just didn't. Also I don't think /say text shows up under chatlogs.
 
umm I meant the Verden dude was green chatting or w/e.
Anyways, this has come a far way and I think its been justified. Thank you very much for looking into the situation. Also dgoodman I'm sorry for assuming your support for the melee only rule. I was a bit paranoid at that time ._.
 
It wasn't for voteban griefing (Like abusing the system), they were vote banning you for griefing.