Author Topic: Dark Claw  (Read 851 times)

Alright, I would like to begin by saying, I am not complaining specifically about this player, I honestly have some questions that may effect how I was governing my server involving him.

Dark Claw: 4750 (I believe, but I could be dyslexifying it, so I will correct as soon as I have access to blockland again)

First of all, I have screen shots of my IRC chat with him, but I am currently on my desktop computer and unable to post them. If anyone honestly cares enough to see them, I will glady upload them.

Anways, the story:

I was hosting my colony server, which even regarding this issue is the most fun server I have hosted in a while. The way I had it set up, was that the general public could join and start colonies with the team deathmatch mod.

I however, was on an unjoinable team labeled "gods". No, not to be invincible or anything, but because I had the game set up so I would place mines and idols around the islands, and those who found them got special bonuses (weapons, buildings, vehicles, ect). It made it like a treasure hunt. I also controlled a variety of enemies with speech commands.

At one point, after two hours of fun, Dark Claw joined. As soon as he spawned, he joined the newest, mostly unbuilt colony, and began to run around attacking other players. The other players had better weapons at this point, so i let him attack, knowing it would just punish him in the end. I however, was not using better weapons except for a spear, so he decided to come after me. This was right about the time I had decided to spawn a tank as a challenge for the tougher teams, who were also out looking for a mine in the distance.

Now, I had told him not to attack me, as I was busy managing the server, placing idols, respawning boats, ect. He continued to, and made it difficult to work.

Eventually, i kicked him. He came back on the server calling me a "sissy" (As ridiculous as that was), and other chat spam. So I banned him for a day.

Then, he Irc'ed me (this is what I have screenshots of), telling me I was a sissy and various remarks about my mother. I told him that was fantastic and ignored him.
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Now, besides the fact I think people should know about this guy, I have a question: Did my server managment make him do this, or was it just his way? Is there a way I could have prevented him from doing this without banning?

Anyway, thanks for reading, i'll try to post the screenies 2moro. If anyone would like to talk to people who were there, myself, Zou, and a variety of others can probably be found back on the server tommorow if I have enough time to put it up. The servers name is: Lostcomp's Colonies, or you can IRC me.

If you answer my questions on management it would be greatly appreciated.

It was your server management. Don't act like a god. And the block feature is your friend

Don't act like a god.
He was acting like a host. The god thing was a metaphor. I see nothing wrong with what he was doing and the server actually sounds pretty fun.

As Space Guy (I think) has said before, instead of trying to force rules upon people, you should make it impossible for them to break the rules. You should've been playing as the invincible playertype, and then you could've just ignored him and he would have lost interest.

You told him to stop attacking you.
He did not stop attacking you.
You kicked him.
He returned, caused various other forms of havoc and chat spam.
You banned him.
That's very fair.

You probably could have handled the situation a little better, but I think you did fine and your server would probably be a
better place without scum like him.

for me, i just ban whoever has been a richard and if they try to get unbanned I usually ignore them

It was your server management. Don't act like a god. And the block feature is your friend

I wasn't trying to act like a god, sorry if the message came across like that. I was attempting to manage the server, and the god thing was a reasonable way for me to place mines n stuff.


"As Space Guy (I think) has said before, instead of trying to force rules upon people, you should make it impossible for them to break the rules. You should've been playing as the invincible playertype, and then you could've just ignored him and he would have lost interest."

Alright, i will almost certainly do that. Thanks a ton for this suggestion.

It was Dark Claw being stupid.

As far as I'm concerned on this, he's in the wrong for his stupidity and immaturity, whereas you handled it perfectly.

You gave an initial warning. He continued.
You kicked him. He returned and spammed.
You banned him. He proceeds to harrass you outside of your server.
You alerted others about him.

That's exactly how it should work, for your side of it.
He sounds a complete idiot with absolutely no common sense to himself.
I'll keep an eye out for him. Thanks.

And, just to say, your server sounds really, really interesting. I'll be sure to check it out sometime.