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Rules mention that you should not accuse players of cheating in public but if you suspect someone you contact an admin, possibly with evidence, and make a report. Instead you were accusing players non stop without any apparent proof, teamstacking and actively inviting other players to stack too.

2024-01-20 20:15:02 :    # [Global] Ruff n Tumble: when cheaters are here..
2024-01-20 20:15:08 :    # [Global] Ruff n Tumble: u stack their team
2024-01-20 20:15:17 :    # [Global] Ruff n Tumble: in hope they will left
2024-01-20 20:15:20 :    # [Global] Ruff n Tumble: capish angie?
2024-01-20 20:15:32 :    # [Global] Angela Merkel: i eat m10s
2024-01-20 20:15:35 :    # [Global] Angela Merkel: no problem
2024-01-20 20:15:38 :    # [Global] Ruff n Tumble: at least u know stacking :9

2024-01-20 20:34:02 :    # [Global] Ruff n Tumble: dude, stack to our team

2024-01-20 20:45:44 :    # [Global] Ruff n Tumble: comr to reds alxim

2024-01-20 20:47:11 :    # [Global] Ruff n Tumble: we should stac em..
2024-01-20 20:47:14 :    # [Global] Ruff n Tumble: and kick their asses..

I dont remember many admins lifting nameless' unfair bans on you but I do remember I was one of them and it costed me admin rights suspension. Can't remember you protesting back then though.
A part from that you can't compare that situation with the current management, can you?

We very much welcome players switching teams to help the weaker side however it has to be done in appropriate moments and not too frequently in one round and quite obviously you shall not use your previous knowledge from your team(like players position) after the switch. If the player carries one team and attacks with his teammates but then switches and goes directly for his teammates killing them admins might have a suspicion he switched teams with intention to get kills on his former teammates knowing their position; we know Killer doesn't do that as he usually switches team to even it up but switching team too often might lead to confusing situations just like this one. Perhaps ban was too much; or maybe not because situation was not that simple but Killer is a legit player, he appealed his ban so we lifted it.

But you are always welcome to flame those shit admins on forum Denny even though if I were you I'd use that time more productively, like working on your own server project just like you were doing not so long ago, but hey turns out that's much harder than trolling people on forum isn't it?

P.S. We lifted Killer's ban in just a few hours and he was able to play that same evening, but those who want to continue making drama out of it be my guest.

I understand it may seem that ban was perhaps too much considered that Robert never broke any rules as far as we know and  always plays fair; however revealing a players position is not allowed even when it's the last man alive and even when he doesnt seem interested in getting the flag because it might be that he's not aware he is the last, so it would be appropriate to tell him in chat at least once that he needs to get a flag and wait a bit for his reaction - give him a fair chance. Then, if sadly that player doesn't react and doesnt even try to walk towards a flag it is fair to ask admin to apply !kill on them or to use !runnext (in certain cases it would save time to everyone); but revealing players position at any time is not recommended and might get you in trouble. Ban was lifted pretty quickly though, so I hope it was no big trouble.

I do not see anything wrong in addressing issues with concrete admins in private - it is more immediate, direct and you can have constructive conversation with the person to find out together what went wrong and what can we do together to fix it. Being an admin here for 7 years I saw admins public shaming other admins and even flaming them; if we created a topic out of each mistake an admin makes we'd be discussing things non stop but it would not take us anywhere and it would not certainly be helpful. A part from that, nobody likes when their mistakes are publicly discussed and nothing constructive can be made there, the best way is to address concrete issues in private because they touch closely single admins but when there is a new policy or a rules change we sure inform all the admins and hear all opinions and discuss things together.

How it generally works is this: when there is an issue involving an admin, me and Raketen get all the necessary information, collect all evidence there is and discuss facts; once we collected everything we check if actually there was an abuse of power according to Rules and Admins Code(also, in a minor way, to best practices and common sense) and if there was we talk with the admin involved, present him facts and discuss the case explaining what he did wrong according to Rules and/or Admins code, hear what he was to say and then together we talk about what could've been done better in this case and how to act in future in similar cases and THAT'S IT; however if the admin in question keeps REPEATING same kind of abuse over and over again, and shows no accountability for his own actions or if his abuse is BLATANT and HEAVY we might temporarily suspend him and in the meantime we expect him to understand what he did wrong and at least to be sorry for it; if that is not the case we might as well suspend that admin permanently, according to how much warnings he had for previous mistakes/abuses and to gravity of those.

Now please explain to me, how did we head admins abuse on Hilly while we gave him endless opportunities to prove himself a good admin, that he sadly didn't use each time ignoring existance of Admins Code, giving permanent ban for silly teamkills or minor disruptions, kicking players basically for killing him in game(this with Deeko was was last case but there were a lot more - Latino is a good example), doing what he wants with timer and especially having hard time to admit there was anything wrong in his actions, being hard to reach with friendly requests to adjust the way he uses admin rights and our endless talks; Hilly showed to the public (and then removed) my last pm to him but he didn't show hundreds of previous ones when we asked him nicely to not ban players with excessive or unjustified bans, to consider everyones opinions before ever using !timeroff or better not use use it at all; and for the love of God, to not ABUSE. He had one job to do, he failed at it and you may blame head admins for it or you may look at the reality and accept it but please Dakota do not share information that you know is not true about our administration or do not portray some opinions you've heard from someone as official policy SiMPLE is running.

Being a head admin doesn't mean I'm not under scrutiny or that I can do what I please; if you think there is an abuse bring your facts, evidence and arguments and I will respond to all the questions you have and then if you're not satisfied you can apply to Tuia. By the way, I'm easy to reach both on forum or via discord, may not reply immediately but I will reply and I never avoided any conversation with you Dakota or with anyone else..

Dakota, you are well aware that me and RaketenHorst are head admins and it is in our competence to manage admins team according to the guidelines that were set together with Tuia. These guidelines, defined as Admin's Code, just as the rules, mention Admin's responsibility in cases of abuse - that means admins shall be made accountable for every abuse they make once it's proven.

Hilly abused his admin rights as video evidence and chatlog shows - he was suspended without further notice and there were 2 reasons to that. First he refuses till this day to aknowledge the abuse he made and to apologize for it - that's the opposite of how an admin should act. Second, it is not the first time he abuses his rights and if we didn't make a topic out of it it doesnt mean we didn't try to address it with him - sadly he did not react to several talks and warnings we addressed which left us with no choice.

Thought you knew that we welcome any critics as long as it expressed in a civil way and is constructive

Hilly,  I found no warnings in chat prior to this kick, you only warned with !wbase afterwards, also you used a kick for disruptive gameplay and not for baseattack - !kdis intead of !kbase. Apparently killing you in this game is considered disruptive gameplay now? I rather consider that abuse of admin rights and yes we usually suspend admins for that - or did you expect to get away with it while denying video evidence in public? And we would have given a chance to you if you took responsibility when it happened, admitted you made a mistake and apologized for it but instead you tried to manipulate the facts saying deeko was baseattacking and when full video came up we saw there was no baseattack.

Hilly it is not first time you kick or ban someone for personal or at the very least questionable reasons, you have been giving some inappropriately long bans in past, did what you wanted with timer(and you rarely asked others if they wanted time off) and till now we only warned you, talked to you, asked you nicely - but we saw almost no changes and with this last abuse you left us no choice but to let you go.

If you want to blame me for that feel free to, but deep inside you know that it's only your fault because you had enough chances to do better but instead you did what you wanted. Now you make cheap excuses but while doing it please at least be honest and stay on topic because simon's crashing League servers back in 2011 doesn't have anything to do with this case or with SiMPLE in general, and till there is a proof you shall not accuse players of cheating as well as accusing admins of being corrupted - please tell me when did I ever treat any conquer clan player any differently than other players? Ask DoubTi if he feels privileged here, or even deeko - he got more severe bans from me than from majority of other admins.. It is also not hard at all to identify Deeko or Simon because they are using each his very own key that we keep track of so admins know who is who at any time - all admins know that.

I also wonder why you had to post my private message  on public forum or why do you try portraying me or Raketen as bad people - because we didn't let you get away with what you did wrong? I respect you very much Hilly and I appreciate everything you've done for this community but please don't make it harder than it has to be. If our decision does not make you happy you shall appeal to Tuia as to higher instance, which I think you already did, but you could also ask yourself, what could you have done differently to prevent this from happening because it was all in your hands - you will realize that if you just look at the facts putting emotions aside.

Apparently you're using a public key which seems to be banned on our servers, quite  a common issue especially if you use Origin version of bf 1942 installer. I've sent you a private message to help and solve this problem.

We still cannot identify you in our player base. You will receive a private message soon so we can find out the reason you result banned.

I asked you if you used nickname "alexey" in past. There is no player named "blu2eyes" in ban list so we don't know how to help you if you don't give us more info as we can't identify you at the moment. A player that could match with you that we know is banned used nickname "alexey". Hence my question - are you him? Or if not, which other nicknames did you use in this game? Thanks

Hi Igor and welcome to forum! Thanks for appealing your ban, we will let you know soon.