The Migrating Coconut

First of all, this does not require any immediate unban or act by MP or the 1st MRB, the ban issued has already been lifted, citing 'complaining isnt a bannable reason' as unban reason. This complain is about a ban issued to me as below: Nick as shown on the ban: not a bazooka player SteamID: STEAM_0:1:4693592 Issued: 01-03-22 18:29 Length: 2 d Stated reason: Ignoring Admins Banned from: Web Ban My usual nick: The Migrating Coconut This ban had no valid reason for having being issued. I was never warned for anything by this admin or any other on that day or earlier, as can be seen by checking the server chat logs. So I did not and cannot possibly have ignored any admins. For the last year or so I always play with voice_enable 0 because I want to, as I did on the first 3 or 4 years that I played here, so I certainly did not hear or speak anything. Besides, I did nothing against any of the server rules on that day or earlier, and there would be no valid reason even for issuing any warnings whatsoever, let alone a ban many hours after I disconnected. The only brief interaction that I had on that day with the admin GySgt. J. Flores was on Anzio many hours before the ban was issued, and it happened as this, per the server chat and event logs: --- previous messages, after at 2 Jan 2022 19:34:01 my team won a 2nd round against Promon and the admin GySgt. J. Flores' team, score was 2x1 --- not a bazooka player: 2 Jan 2022 19:34:10 the wanker team did it again Promon: 2 Jan 2022 19:34:20 fLORES HELP US not a bazooka player: 2 Jan 2022 19:34:26 rofl *For clarification, I was referring to a player on my team with the nick "Willy Wanker", this player: http://gm.1stmarineraiders.com/playerinfo/315775 I was celebrating the unlikely 2nd victory of our team even on very adverse conditions, after having lost a quick round at 2 Jan 2022 19:19:13, (less than 2 minutes after the map started) and being in trouble for much of the time before this round ended, and having a very small team k/d ratio. I used a reference to the nick of player "Willy Wanker" for comedic purposes, which is some kind of thing I'm surely known to do by now. --- when the next round started, my first kill was the admin GySgt. J. Flores --- 2 Jan 2022 19:34:35 Kill killed GySgt. J. Flores [1st MRB|MP] with U.S. Grenade --- and then the interaction with the admin GySgt. J. Flores --- GySgt. J. Flores [1st MRB|MP]: 2 Jan 2022 19:34:54 whats so funny coconut? not a bazooka player: 2 Jan 2022 19:35:05 funny stuff is funny not a bazooka player: 2 Jan 2022 19:35:15 do you have a problem with funny not a bazooka player: 2 Jan 2022 19:35:17 ?!? GySgt. J. Flores [1st MRB|MP]: 2 Jan 2022 19:37:08 dont be a dick, i know you. My three messages above are the only times on that day when I directed my word at the admin GySgt. J. Flores. --- and after we lost a 2nd round at 2 Jan 2022 19:38:04 while playing for a couple of minutes with 3 or at times 4 less players, score was 2x2 --- not a bazooka player: 2 Jan 2022 19:38:31 2x2 not a bazooka player: 2 Jan 2022 19:38:36 and we have 3 less not a bazooka player: 2 Jan 2022 19:38:37 let's go GySgt. J. Flores [1st MRB|MP]: 2 Jan 2022 19:39:11 unreal, all games crying, non stop not a bazooka player: 2 Jan 2022 19:39:34 anyone can win against a team with 1/2 k/d not a bazooka player: 2 Jan 2022 19:39:42 literally anyone GySgt. J. Flores [1st MRB|MP]: 2 Jan 2022 19:39:50 cry more The four messages above were the only times on that day that the admin GySgt. J. Flores directed their word at me, as far as I know. After this brief interaction, I played for around 5 more hours (12 maps of 25 minutes each, Palermo, Donner, Lennon_rc3, Harrington, Santos_b3, Colonia, Jagd, Argentan, Avalanche, Flash, Kalt, Colmar) before leaving without any incident, as can be seen on the server logs. The web ban (a kind issued when the player being banned is not connected to the server anymore) was issued some time after I disconnected. I don't know exactly how long after because the server chat/event logs and the SourceBans logs have different timezones set and I don't know the offset between the two (back when I was an admin I knew, but I don't remember anymore). I can maybe assume that the admin GySgt. J. Flores may have got personally offended by my remarks on Anzio that their team has lost 2 rounds even though my team had a team k/d ratio of 1/2. Our team had at some times 3 or even 4 less players (I must add, without the admin GySgt. J. Flores switching teams to balance it out, as they were playing on the team with more players. Instead, I was accused of 'crying'.). Or maybe my kill just after they lost a round might have thrown them over the edge, and the rage kept brewing for all the hours after, until the pressure was too much and exploded with issuing a ban, I don't know. Or yet maybe they are digging old (already solved) issues when at another opportunity I had offended the admin GySgt. J. Flores and I was banned for this (the ban was converted to a formal written warning afterwards), when I used an offensive word to classify some unsportsmanship acts (failing in fairness and ethics, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsmanship) that were happening, as: -only ever playing on the team which is winning; -switching to the other team or even leaving the server if their own team starts losing; -not joining the game (after connecting to the server) and quitting if there are only slots available on the team which is losing; -never switching teams to the other team when the other team is losing, even when the other team has 3, 4 (or more) less players; -on the other hand, if the team which somehow now has 2+ less players (or sometimes only 1) is seen as stronger, they are quick to switch to it; As the acts above are not against any rules, there is nothing to be done regarding those, and that is water under the bridge, on my side at least. They might only be frowned upon, if anyone wishes to do so, as I surely did and will always do. The ethos of cheaters always include a stronger desire to win than to play in equity and fairness (I'm not accusing anyone of cheating, it is just an observation). But I digress... let's get back. During the entire time that I played on that day, I was never warned in any way or kicked by any admin, and this ban for 'Ignoring Admins' had not even a resemblance of a valid reason for having been issued. Besides lacking the proper steps of "first warning, then kicking, then banning, except in extraordinary justified cases" that has been a staple of 1st MRB admins, it has no foundation in any rule that could have been broken by me on that occasion, as none was. PS: After a really long time I just logged in into the 1st MRB forum to post this and this direct message was waiting for me there: ---------------------------------------------------------------- " From Flores 1st MRB 253 Started conversation: May 14, 2021 You're a fucking coward, you say things without a name. If you have a problem, say it to the face, idiot. Its a game. Keep it up, until you fill up with bans and you won't be able to play any more on our server " ---------------------------------------------------------------- So, the admin GySgt. J. Flores is one of those. In the many years I've been playing online here, I've observed a few admins use this deceitful tactic to get rid of people they don't like, which is to issue many minor bans for anything regardless of having valid reasons until the person has a permanent ban issued due to so many accrued bans. Well, this might explain a lot about the ban I'm referring to on this admin abuse complain. Screenshot of the message below:

Name: LoL u MaD ? [no sound] Steam I.D: STEAM_0:0:564947785 (probably a family share account) Reasons for the Ban: Cheating Recommended duration of ban: Permanent Demo Provided?: Y (avalanche, 14,3 MB) lolumad.dem

Uploaded another demo (16.6 MB at anzio) of him playing, continues using wallhack. One very blatant instance can be seen at tick 44500, near the demo end. Multiple other times also. fishermananzio.dem

Name: FISHERMAN Steam I.D: STEAM_0:0:502435478 Reasons for the Ban: Cheating. Wallhack and some kind of aim assist. Recommended duration of ban: Permanent Demo Provided?: Yes, 2 demos: -1 at Anzio (10.4 MB) blatant wallhacking at tick 1500, and others; -1 at Kalt (4.4 MB) very blatant wallhacking starting at tick 9000 until tick 9600. fishermananzio.dem fishermankalt.dem

Name: PashamRA Steam I.D: STEAM_0:0:33117855 Date & Time of ban: Permanently banned twice 1) 06-02-20 13:41 2) 06-02-20 13:50 Admin who banned PashamRA: Crafton Reason we should Unban: This player, PashamRA, was surely banned by mistake (twice) when dealing with a name-changer hacker. His GameME logs show no hint of aimbot. The culprit was STEAM_0:0:191118834, who at the SourceBans appears using another nick of a normal player, blaubaer91, banned at 06-02-20 13:44. The nick appearing on the ban on this STEAM_0:0:191118834 hacker should be changed to "name-changer" or something like that, to avoid future confusion regarding the other innocent player blaubaer91 (when someone might search for nick and wrongly conclude that blaubaer91 was at some point cheating). Like in these cases: http://www.1stmarineraiderbattalion.clanservers.com/index.php?p=banlist&searchText=name+changer&Submit= The other guy banned by mistake at that event, Jaymerson STEAM_0:1:53190578, was already unbanned. Maybe this PashamRA guy was forgotten. It's hard to correctly ban a name-changer hacker, the guy changed names 12 times in 6 minutes, thus mistakes like this happen many times, it's not the fault of the admin. The best tactic is to locate the guy's steamID using GameME and then by using status at console, check his player # and use that (or the steamID directly) to ban by console. Banning by menu in cases like this is prone to mistakes. I don't know any of the players involved in this and I wasn't playing at the time, I'm only using information from the logs.

Name: 1 du NN Steam I.D: STEAM_0:0:539323655 Duration of Ban: Permanent Reasons for the Ban: Aimbot, blatant Demo Provided?: Yes, a quick 1 min demo Comments: dunn.dem

Name: Mr Pepsi Steam I.D: STEAM_0:1:553080955 Reasons for the Ban: Aimbot, almost 100% hs when iron sighting Recommended duration of ban: Permanent Demo Provided?: Yes Recorded from a little before his death at 11:45:38 until jagd ended at 11:59:44 (some 14 minutes total) He did 13 kills/11 hs during these 14 min, and did 24 kills/20 hs during his 25 min session. mrpepsi.dem

Name: Daffy Steam I.D: STEAM_0:1:117203358 Duration of Ban: Permanent Reasons for the Ban: Racism. Repeating the N-word Demo Provided?: N Comments: SSgt. M. Paul was also playing at the time and witnessed the incident.

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Name: Rambo and lo (alts of Danil Bagrov) Steam I.D: STEAM_0:1:453221632 and STEAM_0:0:431313021 Duration of Ban: Permanent Reasons for the Ban: Ban evasion/team killing. Alt accounts of Danil Bagrov. Demo Provided?: N Comments:

Name: M. Covell Steam I.D: STEAM_0:1:437791212 Duration of Ban: Permanent Reasons for the Ban: Wallhack Demo Provided?: Y - Video attached 05m36s - 191 MB Comments: Day_of_Defeat_Source_2018-10-21_18-03-29.mp4

Name: batman_cs Steam I.D: STEAM_0:1:97819059 Reasons for the Ban: Team killing. Killed 8 teammates in 3 minutes. I was called but the player left before I could join to ban. Recommended duration of ban: 2 weeks (has 1 previous 1 week ban for TK) Demo Provided?: N

Name: "Our Benefactors" Steam I.D: STEAM_0:1:82303943 Reasons for the Ban: Racism/bigotry Recommended duration of ban: Permanent Demo Provided?: N Details: From this player's chat log: 8 Oct 2018 12:47:47 Heil. 8 Oct 2018 12:48:48 Sieg Heil! 8 Oct 2018 12:48:59 oof 8 Oct 2018 12:49:34 whoops 8 Oct 2018 12:49:38 didnt know what the fuck that did 8 Oct 2018 12:50:25 Is everyone else laggin' or is it just me? 8 Oct 2018 12:51:06 Is there a feature where we gas jews or no? 8 Oct 2018 12:51:23 Fuck why? 8 Oct 2018 12:51:40 Someone can't understand dark humor. 8 Oct 2018 12:52:08 Lol okay 8 Oct 2018 12:52:40 Some people find dark things humrous some times. 8 Oct 2018 12:53:03 Nein. 8 Oct 2018 12:53:41 what 8 Oct 2018 12:54:38 Never ignored it. 8 Oct 2018 12:55:11 You aren't to judge what jokes are or are not appropate. 8 Oct 2018 12:55:17 Simple as that. 8 Oct 2018 12:55:38 listen faggos 8 Oct 2018 12:55:42 im here to gas jews

Name: BIGWILLYHAVER69 Steam I.D: STEAM_0:1:162625791 Duration of Ban: Permanent Reasons for the Ban: Wallhack Demo Provided?: Y - See video attached - 06m12s - 212 MB Comments: Day_of_Defeat_Source_2018-10-09_02-07-21.mp4

Name: Your Brain Popped Out Steam I.D: STEAM_0:0:104304233 Duration of Ban: Permanent Reasons for the Ban: This is this player's 7th ban for TK. Demo Provided?: N Comments: