Point-by-point rebuttal time, in a sarcastic manner! Because that's just about what this post warrants.
Okay. Let me sum up: The committee want to ban all guy's who crashing server's. Right? Okay. Go further. The committee ban me, viper, QueeNiE and Kongo. We all know there are more guy's who crashing server's. If I am correct remember minimum 8-10 players. Will more follow? I don't think so. Maybe the committee have screwed up?
You're putting words in the committee's mouth, then saying they're going too far? If you're complaining about you being the only one banned, then maybe you should consider that the committee might still be talking about it? Because maybe it's a time of year where people are more distracted by family matters or otherwise? I don't know, that might slow things down some. Maybe a bit. And hell, getting nine people to agree on something is hard enough in the first place. Wait for the committee to ACTUALLY MAKE A DECISION, then criticize it.
I can remember that a lot of committee members tell me: "all or no one". I don't want fairness. I want a better committee
You don't want things to be fair. That's crazy talk. Unless you just wanted to see your opinions and decisions go through, as opposed to ones that would be reasonable. Yeah, that seems like a pretty safe assumption about what's going on here.
I don't have anything against the committee members. But please think about my suggestion. Fewer committee members and more power for them. I can't understand how a committee with so intelligent members making so bad decision's (I mean this business).
Fewer members would make decisions go faster, but less points of view would potentially make the decisions more biased. Redundancy = fairness = good decisions.
I think viper and kongo still waiting of their log's where you can see that he past in the console ******. All what you can see it that playersX connect to a full pub server and after 2 minutes the server go down. But where you can really see(read) that playerX crashing the server? It's a pub with a lot of players. Where is demonstration for that?
That'd be why playerX isn't banned yet. And perhaps won't be. But who knows? The committee hasn't made a decision yet.
And what about sk89q? I search in this forum for a reason why he's still unbanned. All what I have found is that he "only test it on his own server". I would be really disappointed when I test a speed hack on my own server and I get a ban (I only want to know how fast it can be). Yes I know, using an exploit to crash servers isn't a hack. But, it will be equally punished. Why he don't use the "Start A New Game" button? Hacks and exploit's can be tested offline. I don't have anythink against sk89q. And I'm sure that he will be not pissed about a ban. Maybe he not give a darn about (similar to me). But, same legislation for all and same punishment for all.
I'm not sure why sk89q didn't use more private ways to test it either, but here's an overview of what went on (in case you missed it):
- You, sk89q, and others found out about the exploit.
- You crashed one or more servers with people playing on them- disconnecting them, disrupting their game, and generally abusing them.
- Sk89q crashed an empty server, affecting no one and potentially affecting very few people.
- Sk89q apoligized...
- You did not.
Sk89q's offense was a small one. You may have both gone through the same motions, but what you KNOWINGLY caused was much more drastic than what sk89q did. I agree that those who commit similar crimes should get similar punishments, but you and sk89q did completely different things. Your actions were with the intent of causing harm- it certainly doesn't look like sk89q's were.
To sum it up:
I'm sorry you're upset that sk89q isn't banned. I'm sorry you're upset that the committee is slow. But if you take one thing away from this post, this should be it:
You and sk89q committed different crimes of different severity.
I do hope you can see the impact of that.
