OMG OMG OMG US 1550 Admin is sooooo, like, abusive.

[DrainBamaged 38]

So ... I'm actually the admin of US 1550, and today I get a nasty email to my admin email address. I redacted the full email and name.

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From:

Alex****at*****dotcom

Title:

Gravel we need to talk. Now.

Body of email:

Unexpected server restarts are completly unacceptable mate.

We just lost a chopper and two vehicles loaded with items/weapons... Either you need to get a plugin that tells when restarts are happening or if that was a manual restart then I may report ya. Sorry if it was manual I can't help but report it, I hate abusive admins.

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Now when I read this I was at a total loss. I've been dealing with hacker/scripters off and on all day. I mean I'm pretty damned proactive. I continually post both my email address and TeamSpeak details in game and ask that people contact me for help when issues arrive. I manually go through logs and see who is hacking/scripting and do everything else an admin can do. And it's very rare that I ever restart a server without announcing that it's coming.

So I started thinking about it and I did restart one of my servers without a warning today, purely by accident. But "abusive admin"??? WTF?? Are you kidding me? I even run around in my servers loaded with good gear and take pot shots at my players to encourage them to try and kill me. I'm never mad or abusive about being killed, and I never restart the server when fair-play happens. I mean, really? Comeon. Abusive?

So I replied:

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Alex******at*****dotcom

First. It's pixels so relax.

Second. I have not violated a single server rule/restriction.

Third. Report away mate. When I'm fixing hacker/scripter damage I can restart whenever I wish. There's no rule that says I must give a warning, although 99.9% of the time I do. And, I never abuse the restart to benefit myself or friends.

The only unwarned about restart today was accidental, while I was in the server via Remote Desktop, I was trying to "grab the window to move it and instead it clicked it closed, forcing the game server to restart. Remote Desktop is a little slow on the take with the mouse and sometimes it's glitchy. At the time I was actually looking at the server and logs to benefit YOU, not me, because of hacker/scripters.

Sorry man, but that's not abusive ... regardless of what you think. If you think I'm an abusive admin because you got one unannounced restart and lost some pixels ... then find a new server, and report me.

As far as telling me what I need to do (Re; getting a plugin, etc.) you DO NOT pay for my servers. You DO NOT get to tell me what to do with my servers, that I pay for. You DO play for free on my high-speed dedicated server, that I pay for out of my pocket. Again, I follow the DayZMod rules. If you don't like it ... there's a disconnect button.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/forum/46-server-reporting/ you can report it there if you want. I'll post our emails.

Otherwise quit complaining about losing some pixels in a computer game that's only in Alpha testing.

Lastly, to be quite honest, I find it absurd that you emailed me to complain about this when I've never had a single prior email from you to report scripters/hackers. Not once, ever.

Instead of complaining and being upset about one unscheduled restart you could have been proactive and reported problems. I reguarly put this email address and my TeamSpeak details into the game just for that. Haven't seen you use either yet ... except to complain about "your" helicopter and gear.

~Gravel

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Now I did look back in my emails and found one previous email from him, so I was wrong, and I did follow up with an email to him correcting that. But his previous email was one F'n line.

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Title:

Hackers.

Body of email:

Yesterday at around 12am-3am.

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No details of any kind.

I run multiple servers and he can't even give me a server number. And I went through the logs from that time and really didn't see anything that actually warranted a ban on any of my servers. A couple people with hacked guns, but zero proof that those people actually hacked them. And I was hopping back and forth on my servers playing during that time frame and didn't notice anything unusual either.

So .. whatever.

Anyway, I guess I'm an abusive admin, so I'm reporting myself for an unscheduled and accidental, unannounced server restart that caused some guy to lose some pixels on the intertoobz.

DrainBamaged

aka Gravel

(P.S. Sorry for the multiple posts of the same thing. This forum always double, triple, or quad posts when I click once.)

[BobDole (DayZ) 129]

I can understand his anger but if he plays long enough in there to have all that he should know you announce your restarts but if he just hopped in and found a base he deserved it. the vehicles should go back to where they were last saved also so tell him to go get them again.

[Caius (DayZ) 1]

Don't sweat it, the guy is an over reactive turd with no life apparently. There have been several hackers since I started playing on your servers, and you are very proactive about getting rid of them. I dont understand why people want to hack on an alpha test of a game, and hope that they fix the ability to do this with a punkbuster of some type. Don't sweat the little girls who complain about pixels.

[BobDole (DayZ) 129]

Don't sweat it, the guy is an over reactive turd with no life apparently. There have been several hackers since I started playing on your servers, and you are very proactive about getting rid of them. I dont understand why people want to hack on an alpha test of a game, and hope that they fix the ability to do this with a punkbuster of some type. Don't sweat the little girls who complain about pixels.

Battle eye is their punkbuster and it sucks

[synddd 10]

Congrats on a very amicable response to this turd.

I know if it were me, I would have lost my shit at him.

I have read rockets post about hosting servers, how hosting one brings no benefit to the hoster and with it comes a lot of time spent removing hackers and dealing with whingers but I didn't expect that.

I'm sure for every person that complains, there is hundreds more that appreciate the time and money you throw at the community to make it what it is, its just the nature of it where the thankful people never let you know and the ungrateful are sure to tell you about it.

[KField86 237]

What a whiny, self-entitled little brat. Jesus, I hate people like this. One time I had to do an emergency shut down on my server since everyone got teleported to a random location and people were starting to shoot at each other. So what did I do? Immediately minimized, risking my life by not alt f4ing, clicked my acp tab, and hit "Stop". Started the server back up, and some little punk ass started saying something like "Oh, another abusive admin. Did someone kill you?" I said "Hey asshole, did you not notice the fucking hacker that teleported everyone to the middle of fucking no where and was about to light up 20+ people? I just saved probably 15 peoples characters and you want to call me abusive? Where were you when that teleport happened? Did you get lucky, or did you execute it?" and then I had about 4 other people in the lobby say.. "Raped." lol

Fucking kids man. You cannot do anything good for people. Players are more ungrateful than server admins in a lot of cases and it's disgusting. You want to talk about abusive admins being bad? Sure. But not nearly as bad as the cry babies who bitch even though they've paid nothing to play this mod, while we're providing them with servers to play on, and trying to prevent a hacker from killing them. I rarely even get time to play now because I am constantly watching my console/rcon/all of my log files. Monitoring every little thing. It's become a job, and a chore.. but I do it because I give a shit about the people who play on my server. I also do it ALONE, because I don't have anyone I trust with admin yet, nor do I know anyone who I feel would know what to do so... yeah.. do it by myself. It's loads of FUN. :/

Edited August 19, 2012 by KField86