05-07-2022, 04:41 PM
Good afternoon ya'll.
Let me try to explain what occurred last night to my best knowledge without coming off too much as he said, he said.
Playing on motel, a guest under the name caty joined. On one of the first rounds they played, they lasered me from a good distance away with an auto rifle, so I decided to keep tabs on them for the rest of the game and came to the conclusion that they were hacking. Unfortunately for me, up until the round that Damien posted a video from, my OBS wasn't up and running so I couldn't clip the stuff I had already seen.
Now when I had an inkling that this player was hacking, I told cryptic salsa who was on at the time, and Damien since they usually are a great help for gathering quick evidence. Of course, salsa became preoccupied looking back at the footage he had recorded, during the round the hacker was a traitor and getting into plenty of fights. By this point though, I had him dead to rights with what I observed and so did Damien and other players who were on. The hacker wasn't mass-rdming or anything of the like, they were playing normally the entire time aside from the fact that they were hacking.
At this point was when Dero kicked the player who was hacking, mid traitor round, while I was trying to get salsa to see it for himself.
The rest sort of plays out on video so at most I can just tell you what was going through my head at the time.
When staff is trying to catch someone hacking, we try our best not to tip off the hacker to us being aware of their actions. When a hacker does know, they usually stop outright which makes it much harder to catch them again, or they double down and try to kill the entire server while spamming slurs in either text chat or voice.
At this point I'm telling them to shut up about it in voice chat, I'm attempting to keep an air of secrecy around it still, though I could have been much more polite about it. Admittedly I'm quite frustrated, so when they keep arguing with me I just outright kick them.
I don't have staff guidelines open 24/7 on my other monitor, so I'm not aware of the steps I'm supposed to follow in regards to donor abuse at all times. Given the foresight of the situation now, I don't regret kicking that player but I do apologize for my behavior during and following the act. Given the chance to do anything different I would have just gagged them and left it at that, though I still believe kicking them was a less severe punishment than giving them an awarn, since instead of having that stick on them they could just immediately join back with no penalty considering they were already dead for the round.
It has been a constant issue for me to have players interfere with a hacking investigation, being fed up with it as is especially while being argued at by said player trying to justify their actions led me to make an impulse action.
For the sake of transparency, I'd appreciate if Damien shared a video that wasn't clipped and shipped to show me at my worst as the one Laced Xanax gave them. After the point where the video ends, I do end up apologizing to Damien for what I said and we continued to play the game for a good hour afterward with no issues. (Mind you I had no idea this report was made until way after the fact)
At the end of the day, I do apologize for my behavior as that was rather uncouth and it seems to me to be more of an issue than kicking. Although I felt the punishment was justified it still doesn't fit the guidelines we are supposed to abide by.
Let me try to explain what occurred last night to my best knowledge without coming off too much as he said, he said.
Playing on motel, a guest under the name caty joined. On one of the first rounds they played, they lasered me from a good distance away with an auto rifle, so I decided to keep tabs on them for the rest of the game and came to the conclusion that they were hacking. Unfortunately for me, up until the round that Damien posted a video from, my OBS wasn't up and running so I couldn't clip the stuff I had already seen.
Now when I had an inkling that this player was hacking, I told cryptic salsa who was on at the time, and Damien since they usually are a great help for gathering quick evidence. Of course, salsa became preoccupied looking back at the footage he had recorded, during the round the hacker was a traitor and getting into plenty of fights. By this point though, I had him dead to rights with what I observed and so did Damien and other players who were on. The hacker wasn't mass-rdming or anything of the like, they were playing normally the entire time aside from the fact that they were hacking.
At this point was when Dero kicked the player who was hacking, mid traitor round, while I was trying to get salsa to see it for himself.
The rest sort of plays out on video so at most I can just tell you what was going through my head at the time.
When staff is trying to catch someone hacking, we try our best not to tip off the hacker to us being aware of their actions. When a hacker does know, they usually stop outright which makes it much harder to catch them again, or they double down and try to kill the entire server while spamming slurs in either text chat or voice.
At this point I'm telling them to shut up about it in voice chat, I'm attempting to keep an air of secrecy around it still, though I could have been much more polite about it. Admittedly I'm quite frustrated, so when they keep arguing with me I just outright kick them.
I don't have staff guidelines open 24/7 on my other monitor, so I'm not aware of the steps I'm supposed to follow in regards to donor abuse at all times. Given the foresight of the situation now, I don't regret kicking that player but I do apologize for my behavior during and following the act. Given the chance to do anything different I would have just gagged them and left it at that, though I still believe kicking them was a less severe punishment than giving them an awarn, since instead of having that stick on them they could just immediately join back with no penalty considering they were already dead for the round.
It has been a constant issue for me to have players interfere with a hacking investigation, being fed up with it as is especially while being argued at by said player trying to justify their actions led me to make an impulse action.
For the sake of transparency, I'd appreciate if Damien shared a video that wasn't clipped and shipped to show me at my worst as the one Laced Xanax gave them. After the point where the video ends, I do end up apologizing to Damien for what I said and we continued to play the game for a good hour afterward with no issues. (Mind you I had no idea this report was made until way after the fact)
At the end of the day, I do apologize for my behavior as that was rather uncouth and it seems to me to be more of an issue than kicking. Although I felt the punishment was justified it still doesn't fit the guidelines we are supposed to abide by.
