should advertising hacks be considered a bannable offense?
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I'm not even sure why the hell people would risk advertising hacks unless they are paid for it, all you do is entice people to get banned, doesn't make much sense to me.
But still, definitely against it. Hell, I'd pretty much advertising anything that isn't TF2 related bannable, people don't go on TF2 to hear about internet offers, they just want to play.
But still, definitely against it. Hell, I'd pretty much advertising anything that isn't TF2 related bannable, people don't go on TF2 to hear about internet offers, they just want to play.
Congratulations you have figured out the purpose of binds.
Anyway...
I don't think the rule should be "advertising hacks" it should be "promoting hacks" because even though someone isn't directly advertising a hacking website they can be in a server giving info on hacking/VAC/etc and any instruction regarding hacking or VAC circumvention should be against the rules. I will also point out that this isn't a particularly big deal as there are very few cases of someone doing it but it would be nice to ban the people who think they can get away with it. As Toxik pointed out it would be dumb in the first place and luckily for Skial hackers on their own forums advise other hackers to avoid our servers because they know our awesome admin team will ban them.
Just to show enhanced aim in the last 10 days:
http://www.skial.com/stats/hlstats.php?mode=chat&game=tf&server_id=0&filter=enhancedaim
I also searched for other things like "download hacks", "get hacks", "hacking site", etc and nothing came up at all.
By the way, Zebra and I are not advertising hacks because ROFLBOX doesn't exist and Cheathappens.com isn't a hacking site. (gratz to everyone who was too stupid to go to the website and assumed it was)
Admins purposely aggrivating players.
Awesome admin team.
Can you go through a day without being hypocritical or contradicting yourself?
I don't think anyone in this community wants an admin that purposely aggrivates a player especially players they do not know.
You're a terrible admin.
Awesome admin team.
Can you go through a day without being hypocritical or contradicting yourself?
I don't think anyone in this community wants an admin that purposely aggrivates a player especially players they do not know.
You're a terrible admin.
We have a good few younger and impressionable players on our servers, we should be driving the message home that cheating is wrong, not making light of the matter.
If a well respected player on a server advertises a site for downloading hacks, some are likely to be tempted. Of course they will learn a lesson if they visit, download, and use those hacks by getting a ban, but we have to send out the right signal, and in this case prevention is better than cure.
I don't see this as being a widespread or major problem at all, it has just been highlighted by mittens post, and the recent lmaobox hack. After saying that, it's clear that lmaobox has spread partialy through it's advertising in chat, which proves players can be driven to visiting the sites.
We should have a rule that states, no promoting, encouraging the use of, or advertising any cheats or where to find them.
If a well respected player on a server advertises a site for downloading hacks, some are likely to be tempted. Of course they will learn a lesson if they visit, download, and use those hacks by getting a ban, but we have to send out the right signal, and in this case prevention is better than cure.
I don't see this as being a widespread or major problem at all, it has just been highlighted by mittens post, and the recent lmaobox hack. After saying that, it's clear that lmaobox has spread partialy through it's advertising in chat, which proves players can be driven to visiting the sites.
We should have a rule that states, no promoting, encouraging the use of, or advertising any cheats or where to find them.
*Shouldn't be answering here*
Did any of you guys told Mittens not to do that anymore instead of raging and blaming? He can either understand that this isn't appreciated and stop doing this or keep doing it with consequences.
Instead of being mean and say he is a bad admin maybe collect proof because so far I haven't noticed him being a real pain in the butt. And in my opinion, Mittens is doing the best he can, but he can make misstakes so just tell him when he does so he can learn from it.
Did any of you guys told Mittens not to do that anymore instead of raging and blaming? He can either understand that this isn't appreciated and stop doing this or keep doing it with consequences.
Instead of being mean and say he is a bad admin maybe collect proof because so far I haven't noticed him being a real pain in the butt. And in my opinion, Mittens is doing the best he can, but he can make misstakes so just tell him when he does so he can learn from it.
I agree!!!
He's not advertising hacks so he's not doing anything wrong. This also isn't the proper topic for this thread.
I know he isn't but people aren't appreciating it, so they must say it instead of saying Mittens is a bad admin while he isn't imo.
I'm not saying that mittens is the most horrible admin ever, I just think that it doesn't matter whether a website is fake or not, it's just not appropiate as an admin to do that because you're supposed to be an authoritative figure. And there will be people that fall for it, and they will assume that mittens is being genuine about it and wont bother to check the website, and it will give Skial bad rep. And bad rep is the last thing Skial needs.
Sure it is, the topic is about advertising hacks, I believe that we need to debate what is considered advertising hacks, should we only ban people who advertise genuine hacking sites or also people who advertise fake/made-up hacking sites?
My teachers always tell me I repeat myself too much in assignments so that wouldn't surprise me.
So wait... if its not advertising hacks, than i should be banned for making other people mad?
So you are suggesting we add a new rule? "Do not make other people mad". Its the internet....
So you are suggesting we add a new rule? "Do not make other people mad". Its the internet....
Well, for admins I think you shouldn't advertise fake hack websites, it's not about people getting mad more than it makes Skial look bad.
my bind is ROFLBOX. its not a valid hack or a link to any hacks. If we want to ban people based on aggravating other players we would have to ban everyone that is good, anyone who isn't good, and anyone who does name calling.
Hell. Why don't all the admins just be tools and talk about how tf2 is free to uninstall and make people angry because its not against the rules for regular players.
I don't know of you notice or not but you're an admin and subject to more rules, like not making random people ragequit that you don't even know. Cause hey, its not like admins are supposed to stop and prevent problems.
Admins aggrivating and taunting players aren't against rules.
I'll remember that for next time.
I don't know of you notice or not but you're an admin and subject to more rules, like not making random people ragequit that you don't even know. Cause hey, its not like admins are supposed to stop and prevent problems.
Admins aggrivating and taunting players aren't against rules.
I'll remember that for next time.
i am an admin?
It never was against the rules. It isn't against the rules for anybody. Remember that. Admins do not have their own set of rules. Admins don't have more rules to follow. Admins follow the same rules everyone else does. The only thing difference is to not abuse the admin commands.
Then you might as well use LMA0BOX as your hack cause theoretically its not a hack.
If you spend half the time you spend trying to cover your retarded ass with grey area shenanigans, people might actually not hate you.
If you spend half the time you spend trying to cover your retarded ass with grey area shenanigans, people might actually not hate you.