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*RESOLVED* - Banned for no reason

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I was banned from a LotusClan server just because I joined. I joined the server and I voteban started on me. This person Algkenos27 started the ban. They could of atleast vote kicked me, or told me to leave. I think this is a stupid reason to get banned for. If you can please unban me and do something about this Algkenos27 guy. (LotusClan arena server)

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As a former administrator I'll go ahead and shed some light, a voteban is only active for 45 minutes, unfortunately you'll have to wait it out since we can't do much about it. However our current admins will try to find this Algkenos guy and have a look at his logs and if he is found guilty he will definitely be given a timeout.

 

Unfortunately I can't guaruntee that we will find him since you have not provided a steamID. In the future use the "status" command in the console to obtain someone's steamID for us thank you.

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Hi Gorgee,

 

Sorry to hear that you've been votebanned. As mentioned previously by Minia these bans are not substantial in length, and expire after 45 minutes.

 

In regards to your situation though:

  • Algkenos27 [u:1:97489049] - I checked his logs and there was no reason he should have initiated those votes.
  • LionBiceps [u:1:164480298] - Seems like this radiant explorer also was part of the problem. Having high ping does not warrant a voteban; which is probably why he did that. 

Both will be banned for the duration of 2 weeks. Sorry for the inconvenience. Should something like this occur in the future, please post the threads here

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I had a similar problem this evening with two people on your arena server. I got annoyed and shut off before I thought about finding out what their SteamID's were.

Their usernames were The U.S.S Marlow and The H.M.S Marlow.

I was playing as an engineer with a mini-sentry and they tried to voteban me for disruptive gameplay and failed once.
Then they tried to votekick me and succeeded. I returned and told them that if engineer was a problem to just say so, even if I can't find any rules about it. Followed by them playing as engineers using mini-sentries.

When they then unbalanced the teams I opted to be an engineer with a mini-sentry again and then votebanned me.

I used to play on your arena servers alot a few years back and I never encountered any problems like this then. Maybe the crowd changed, I don't know. But I'm starting to think that letting randoms vote to ban isn't the way to go.

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I had a similar problem this evening with two people on your arena server. I got annoyed and shut off before I thought about finding out what their SteamID's were.

Their usernames were The U.S.S Marlow and The H.M.S Marlow.

I was playing as an engineer with a mini-sentry and they tried to voteban me for disruptive gameplay and failed once.

Then they tried to votekick me and succeeded. I returned and told them that if engineer was a problem to just say so, even if I can't find any rules about it. Followed by them playing as engineers using mini-sentries.

When they then unbalanced the teams I opted to be an engineer with a mini-sentry again and then votebanned me.

I used to play on your arena servers alot a few years back and I never encountered any problems like this then. Maybe the crowd changed, I don't know. But I'm starting to think that letting randoms vote to ban isn't the way to go.

Hello, first of all I'm sorry to hear this happened to you.

Finding the players without the Steam ID, based on their names, should be possible but will be harder. Our Webadmin is currently down for maintenance, so I can't do a name search until later today.

There are no rules on Lotus servers against playing as a particular class or using a particular loadout. Using the vote system to get rid of players for using certain classes/loadouts is not allowed and results in a temp ban.

We can't choose the players who play on our servers unfortunately so sometimed there are players who don't respect our rules, other players and abuse the vote system. Still I don't think removing the vote ban feature entirely is the way to go. There needs to be a way for people on a server to get rid of players who are actually disrupting the server (exploiters, hackers, etc.) and prevent them from rejoining immediately.

I think Mana tried playing around with the percentage needed for the vote go through a few times before, but the one we currently use turned out to be the best balance as far as I know.

About what happened to you. If you have anything like screenshots, demos or even the date and time of the incident, please post here. It will help us out a lot to find the players in question.

For the future, if something like this happens to you again, please record a demo ("demo <demoname>" to start recording and "stop" to stop recording) and type "status" in console to find the players Steam IDs. On top of that, you can use !calladmin to call one of our admins on your server to assist you.

If no admin joins you, keep recording the situation, take screenshots of important chat lines (e.g. "Player A started a vote ban against Player B") and post a ban request including all of your evidence on our forums. It will then be handled by admins/staff.

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The incident I described happened on the 8/2, sometime between 7 and 10 PM.
I don't remember any more detail.
I'll try to think ahead next time.

Thank you for responding.

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