I feel like I'm a bit late to the party here, but I feel like this needs to be said.
What I see here is a bunch of donators that act like they're entitled.
Donators should recieve the same punishment that the users recieve. If they are given a higher rank, so what? It doesnt make it right that they recieve immunity from stuff like this.
I wouldn't say Warzone being a donator was making him act entitled, and normally I would of punished him severely but I literally couldn't see the chat due to spam from Akowalski. Now I can probably write off why he acted like that, as he was in the server teamspeak server with several super admins last night, and any player who was there probably knew they could get away with stuff while Akowalski was spamming messages and other stuff.
I also find the ability to do this is wrong.You should not be able to change your tag without an admin doing so, because that just gives donators the ability to do things like this.
If a player messed with their tags so they had a font size of like 72 I would remove their tags and ban them for an hour or so, I cannot edit tags of super admins and Akowalski is a super admin and set his tag to font size of like 144 or something a bit after Insanity's screenshots end. Most of the longer tags are the results of people pandering to super admins to get them to change their tags.
Getting banned for a minute is overall just an annoyance because there is no reason to ban someone for a minute, unless it has a worthy message that you could not do via kick, but in this case, there wasn't.
You are correct about the usage of the ban-rifle. Generally it's used for stuffs and giggles by the staff, usually on the staff as well, not players in the mini-game.
And yeah, we really need to keep a better handle on who gets promoted, but for the most part that is not up to me.
