Unban - Smith

[Smith]

Name: Smith (or L/Cpl. K. Smith [1st SAS])

Steam I.D:

Date & Time of ban: 6/22/13 at roughly 1:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time

Admin who banned you: 1st Lt. Hall

Excuse for the Unban: I was banned for the really generic "breaking server rules" type of reasoning. Was a rule specified? Of course not, because I didn't break any.

If anything, I think this has to do with the apparent vendetta I've been notified of after I talked to some of my higher-ups about the situation. They did not seem surprised, and have told me many of them have been banned in the past. I don't know what the deal is, but if their assumptions are correct, then I must say this is pretty childish and I hope you'd agree. The game is dying if you haven't noticed, so refusing to play with other units (especially about skill level) is not going to help anything. In fact, it is rather asinine.

I would never ban anybody from your unit for doing good in our server. I was going about 34/4, give or take a few kills, playing as sniper on a map I'd never played before. None of the other pubbers on my team or theirs were upset with me for performing well. It wasn't until I killed 1st Lt. Hall on a couple of occasions that things took a wrong turn. He was in a window, shooting through a crack between the window ledge and a cabinet I believe he moved, or perhaps it was a teammate.

Either way, I missed my initial shot (something a hacker normally doesn't do), and he responded by diving to the ground. I thought he may be moving position to the next floor, until I noticed he started sliding over the cabinet and made a crack to shoot from on the other side. He got up, I killed him, and then he goes to spectate. Since I've played DoD:S for five years, I know exactly what this means. I remarked, "Come on Hall, don't be that way." He said there's nothing to worry about if I had nothing to hide, which is absolutely correct.

I continue doing well for the next few minutes until the map changed to dod_avalanche where I would go 1-4 only to get banned. This is pretty ridiculous. Only on one other server realism unit server has something like this occurred to me, and unfortunately I cannot recall which one. It may have been the 101st back in the day. Anyways, I was politely asked by an admin if I could tone it down as to not scare away pubbers, and I complied by going to rifleman, a class I am not nearly as good with.

If you bothered to read all this, thank you. If not, tl;dr is that you guys should stop having a vendetta, or make it much more clear with a warning or two if you'd like a player to tone it down for the time being. That request is equally ridiculous, mind you, asking somebody to stop performing their best and intentionally do worse. But that is preferred over getting banned.

Sincerely,

Smith

[Smith]

P.S. I was going to edit in my STEAM ID to the initial post, but I either don't have privileges to edit or I fail at navigating your site.

STEAM ID: STEAM_0:1:19709402

[Smith]

Please respond.

[Griswold]

Mr. Smith your ban will only last 3 hours, please wait until then to get back onto the server.

And i can assure you that this unit has no vendetta against your unit, we deal with every ban with a case by case basis.

Since your ban was executed by a Command Staff member I neither have the authority or the responsibility to do so.

All i can ask is that you wait out the 3 hours your ban lasts.

Signed,

SgtMaj. J. Griswold [1st MRB]

Edited June 22, 2013 by Griswold 1st MRB

[Smith]

Mr. Smith your ban will only last 3 hours, please wait until then to get back onto the server.

And i can assure you that this unit has no vendetta against your unit, we deal with every ban with a case by case basis.

Since your ban was executed by a Command Staff member I neither have the authority or the responsibility to do so.

All i can ask is that you wait out the 3 hours your ban lasts.

Signed,

SgtMaj. J. Griswold [1st MRB]

Alright, I appreciate the reply.

Next time please ensure I am banned for a viable reason. It was not my intention to start any sort of "vendetta conspiracy" but it kind of looks that way when numerous people from our unit are all banned for, well, no reason essentially.

Have a good day Sir Griswold.

[Kirkendall 1st MRB]

Considering your attitude towards this ban, I would think you are lucky Hall didn't ban you for a longer period of time. Acting like you know exactly the reason you were banned for, and inventing a vendetta to make everything more dramatic only makes it seem like you deserved a much longer ban.

For the vendetta specifically, you yourself can take a look at our Sourcebans page which keeps every ban we have issued, even before we used Sourcebans. You'll notice only two permanent bans for the 1st SAS, both of which are imported bans. Imported meaning they were placed before we began using Sourcebans. Both of those bans were put in place for the same reason I feel obligated to lengthen your ban, disrespect.

I don't care how good you think you are, or how long you have played the game. You don't have a privilege to come on our website and create drama where there should be none. You did not talk to 1stLt. Hall, you just began spouting your ideas and hypotheses. The fact that you assumed you were banned for hacking plays into your conspiracy mindset, especially since everyone bans hackers for three hours. That's sarcasm in case you didn't pick up on it.

I'm not going to extend your ban, but you shouldn't take that as a favor to yourself. Do not spread drama in our servers or website where there should be none or I won't be so lenient. Our server remains the best server for Day of Defeat because we eliminate people who cause problems for no reason.

Happy fragging. Behave in the 1st MRB server and we won't have to interact again.