It is sad to see that *NwA* is starting to go down a very familiar road in regards to admin behaviour and banning. I feel a need to post this publicly because I know it's not going to stop with this one incident and this one player. In my previous admin experience I've seen the exact same thing happen and escalate ridiculously far. It's sad to see it all starting to repeat itself on other servers.
Co-incidentally as some MeRk admins got admin-power on the NwA server, over three year old grudges and personal dislikes seemed to be suddenly revived. A player who some of the MeRk admins and presumably NwA admins personally disliked in the past got permanently banned recently without appeal chance. Remember that this is the most harsh punishment there is. Here's a list of all the official permban reasons and claims made by the
*NwA* admins. I'll discuss the evidence and what the claims actually mean and if they are actually against the rules or permban worthy and what this means for the future.
1. "Breaking and bending rules".
2. Not "teamworking".
3. "Locking the team out of valuable assets".
4. Not being "a friend" of the server.
5. Playing your best to achieve high kill scores (quote; "abuse the poor bf2 engine to the maximum just for that few lousy kills and score"
6. Not providing an "immersive experience"
7. Being accused by others for "lack of sportsmanship"
8. Having created early squads.
The most serious accusation is the first one and the only one with any merit. The player ONCE got tempbanned for a borderline baserape. Fair enough. Other than that there are 5 reports made. 3 of them from the same group of friends and two by the same player who all have personal issues with the player in question. Anyone can report ingame no matter false or true and it happens all the time. You can't claim that someone is constantly breaking/bending rules and then only provide a handful of reports without any evidence to back it up. If the reports were true, how come the player wasn't punished ingame or even warned? One tempban is not a pattern - it's an exception to all the rounds played.
Since the player obviously didn't cause any real trouble on the server the NwA admin team desperatly looks for other reason to ban the person they personally dislike. Here comes reasons 2-7. To avoid a wall of text I wont go into detail of the ridiculousness and subjectivity to all these claims. Not to mention that the claims have no evidence or are in themselves banworthy. First of all claims like these aren't against any rules and are obviously not banworthy even if there was evidence. Things like these can be said about any player, because it's a personal opinion and based on the accusers understanding of the game. But let's pretend that "not teamworking" in the admins opinion is a permanently banworthy offence. How come the people creating RECON squads in the middle of nowhere, or people holding 8-man squads on uncappable flags are never warned or even tempbanned? But meanwhiles a player who plays the game normally and always plays by objectives gets PERMANENTLY BANNED without appeal? The admin bias is so obvious and sad.
Claim 8 is also something which could have merit. But in this case doesn't at all. When trying to create for example an asset squad it happens EVERY SINGLE GAME that people create a squad right before the timer. I'll refer you to the logs in the link below. But they all show that the player in question created only 1 early squad and always extremely near the 2:00 mark. That means it is not intentional or even risks to create a squadbug. You could bring up such logs for every PR player that likes assets. But since the NWA admins are desperate to find proper ban reasons they brought this up. Not to mention that we are talking about a few examples over several months, which is completely normal.
Co-incidentally one of the new MeRk admins who recently got adminrights on NwA contacted me on teamspeak in a private conversation. He started talking about what this player did three years ago in PR 0.98. Then I asked if that was the reason he was banned now - and the response was no. But every time I pointed out how ridiculous the current claims are only the history was discussed and I know it will be brought up again here. There is not a single shred of evidence to suggest that the banned player still behaves like he did three years ago, in fact the opposite. Otherwise there would be a real and provable pattern of warnings and tempbans - not just once incident in combination with false reports and subjective claims from biased people. Ironicly the person that contacted me reminded me during the conversation of his own offenses on another server. He therefore got temporarily banned for admitting to ghosting, sharing intel in all-chat, and insulting admins over the report function (much more serious offenses than "not providing an immersive experience" for example). In contrast there is actual evidence and proof in his case, for example chatlogs where he admits to ghosting and shares intel in allchat. Yet he wont be permbanned for it of course and can always appeal.
But the NWA admins have obviously not seriously investigated the claims made by the new MeRk admins and decided to trust the subjective opinions of people with a history of a personal grudge and use that as PERMANENT ban reason without appeal. Please don't continue to throw your servers principals and any ounce of professionallism out the window because of unbacked claims and unreliable pressure from biased admins that seemingly lack self-reflection.
What concerns me is that I've seen something all too familiar before. This is how it all starts. And if the admins get away with it and nobody properly confronts them, they will just continue banning more and more people for the same miniscule reasons; only because of personal dislikes. You never think it's going to be yourself getting a spontanious permaban for not "teamworking" or "not being a serverfriend" until it happens to yourself.
Source:
https://nwa-clan.com/threads/viirusiise ... ppeal.384/
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