Steve, just because you have not directly spotted a cheater, does not mean cheaters are not on your servers. I find that only the most experienced players really know how to look for aimbots, wallhacks, and the more sophistocated cheats. Anyone can spot the speed hack cheats. If a group of servers have a network of loyal players who they have known for a long time, it is not difficult to find cheaters.
However these bans also include the people that I am far more concerned about, namely those who have intentionally used various Valve flaws, and shortcomings to crash servers. Are you aware that many of the server admins looked at the logs just before our servers crashed to see who just entered it? Often these were European players on North American servers, who used ASCII characters, myg0t clan tags, and/or often made comments just prior to the server crashing? Most of them had a total of 1-5 kills over the last 6 months.
Some of the bans I instituted were also related to repeated and personally insulting language that went way beyond what was acceptable, and refused to stop even if kicked or gagged. Some of the bans were 100% proven by the Mani plugin which records to a text file those issuing commands to crash the server.
If you want to operate a forever ban-free server, it's your money. Don't preach to the rest of us who are trying to do the best we can, given the limitations and poor support from Valve (no VAC-2, and damn few patches for the bug ridden HL2-DM). As I said before, if someone is wrongly banned, and takes the time to contact a server admin, most will listen and unban them on a trial basis. If your answer was to buy a new game and Steam ID, instead of communicating, again it is your money.
BTW, operating a "No Clans" club is just another version of a clan. In this case, a sanctimonious anti-clan club.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Tilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Request to clear steam id's from global ban lists
I quit the clan I was involved in. I still run the server farm now known as "=]NOCLANS[=" snip<
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