Don't Tell People They Will Be Banned ... OR YOU WILL BE BANNED!

[Santa]

Bommando posted this for 2142, and it seems its needed now for POE. Since hes so damn eloquent ill just copy and paste

Just a little reminder for those folks who have trouble reading the stickies. Specifically the one labelled reporting infractions.

I've been seeing a disturbing chat trend among our players along the lines of:

|TG| VigilanteJustice > "Get out of the UCB or you will be banned!"
|TG| SelfProclaimedAdmin > "Stop bunny hopping or you will be kicked!"

... and other such nonsense.

The admins decide what action to take based on player reports. This does not include antagonizing people with idle threats on which you have neither the right nor the capacity to act.

Please read the thread linked above carefully for how best to handle issues relating to infractions. Even if an admin is not around at the time, we have the ability to act retrospectively on serious infractions.

Please refrain from spreading your own form of hot-air vigilante justice. It just makes you look like an idiot when nothing happens and will likely provoke a less than favourable response from the offending party.

Suggested alternatives:

|TG| IReadStickies > "LEETNOOB, UCB CAMPING IS AGAINST THE RULES ON THIS SERVER."
|TG| IMakeConciseReports > "REPORTING: LEETNOOB FOR UCB CAMPING."

Please read the above as many times as you need to help you understand. We don't need Internet tough guys making threats they can't act upon. We need more reports that follow the guidelines outlined above.

Thanks.

[Braidedheadman]

I'll be the first to fess up and say that I may be part of the guilty party here. Although, in my own defense, I felt I was warning the player of rule infractions in the way that I worded my comments rather than issuing a threat. Still, I can see the value of prefacing more neutral comments with "Reporting: xxxx" and the like.

Cheers.

[Daarken]

I would raise my hand and admit to this, but I'm innocent, cuz I have not been able to play on the TG server much because its like always FULL!

[icky]

And just so people don't feel like their in-game chat comments are useless, I'll give you a little insight.

Admins are frequently, if not always, monitoring what is said in chat. The first thing I do when I log in is browse through recent chat history to see if there have been any problems. Monitoring chat is something an admin can do when they aren't able to be in-game or even in TS.

Also, the full chat logs are something which we can search to determine if a person has a history of causing disturbances.

It is a very useful tool for us, and your politely worded rule reminders really do help.

[Rick_Slick]

I would just like to point out that this |TG| IReadStickies fellow is a very poor squadmate. He never does anything to help the team. He just sits there the whole time and reads stickies. Doesn't explain how I've gotten killed by him 5 times in one round when he's AFK reading forum stickies the entire time, but I just wanted to point that out.

[Braidedheadman]

LoLs

[khaerus]

This baby needs a bump.

[Mr.McFeelme]

is it OK for me to threaten myself? Sometimes I need to put myself in my place

[khaerus]

If you feel the need to "threaten" yourself, I certainly don't wanna know about it or the "places" you put "yourself."

[corporate]

Bumping this was a good idea. I have seen some of this going on lately.