Oct 22nd 2010, 16:58:40
slagpit,
this is a defining call for the site.
You have a concerned player who came forward and said hey my clan is using clan tools on an individual server.
He could not go to his clan leadership because his clan leadership was doing the cheating. His clan leadership has a history of cheating. NOW3P says that toma should have come to NOW3P and said hey NOW#P is cheating. that would have gone over well.
the concerned player has been banned and as of yet the admins have taken no action with respect to the evidence he provided. Will that encourage people in the future to report on illegal actions of their clan leadership? If you spit on toma and kick him to the curb, no one will ever again come forward and say i have proof that my clan uses clan tools on an individual server.
you know NOW3P uses the irc, he has admitted that, you know he does it all the time and feels entitled to do it. you know he will push the envelope with racism, anti-semitism, personal insults and graphic homoerotica. If you let this pass, it will not only continue it will escalate, just as it recently ramped up to racism. Escalation is inevitable. If all you had was a player who occasionally cheated, lied and posted racist comments that would be one thing, but the escalation will continue.
you have proof, you have a confession, you have a total lack of remorse, you have the banning of another player, this is the defining moment for how discipline is to be handled on the site.
Warster says 60-70% of all vets have cheated at one time or another. If there is never any consequence for getting caught, then the disincentive against cheating for a certain type of person vanishes. Players like NOW3P can then rationalize any action, no matter how brazen, because they know that even when they are caught red-handed the punishment will most likely never come and if it does it will be mild.
Slagpit, this is an important call. Do the responsible thing.