[RussEfarmer]

I don't really have any major gripes (except for maybe racism doing without the kick, kicks are super pointless imo), one thing I would like to ask about is the DDoS/Doxx guidelines.. these should be two completely separate situations because they are two completely different things.. the only thing these two have in common is that they have four letters and start with D.

Threatening to Doxx someone is a very serious thing, because it is a very real threat that players face. Depending on who you are you have enough PII assosiated with your username alone that for people that understand how can dump all kinds of personal information in chat instantly without even knowing you. Threatening to DDoS the server, however, is a completely empty threat, because unless you operate the worlds largest botnet, you are basically never going to DDoS this server as I explained here. Threatening to DDoS an individual is definitely a lot more threatening than threatening to DDoS the server because of the personal nature of the threat, but is still for the most part an empty threat.

As for actually "DDoSing" the server (DDoS in quotes because it's basically not possible, what we think we experience as DDoSes are actually just sophisticated lag hacks exclusive to source servers, in a real DDoS attack banning the attributed player's account or IP will do absolutely nothing), the IP ban is redundant, and IP bans in general should only serve as a temporary countermeasure to a player alt evading. IP bans are temporary in nature (See this article on Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), and in ULX admin mod, provide zero traffic filtering from that IP, only a filter that checks if a player can join based on their connecting IP.

anyway thats my thing, not really that important but its really irritating to see DDoS as a big deal when it is literally the last thing that would happen to this server to bring it offline

EDIT: I actually went and did some digging, Dinkleberg servers are located in the InterNAP Atlanta datacenter, and the server provider's cluster has a 40Gbps uplink to the internet after DDoS mitigation. Not happening...