That thought process is why we are where we are now. Valve doesn't trust community servers to police the community beyond their own nose. They tried to trust us for years and nothing happened. Terrible servers and shitty communities ran rampant, and it was the duty of the community to try and stop them, especially if the community wants to turn around and screech like a howler monkey that Valve OWES you something because we're the LIFEBLOOD and we're the reason they exist yadda yadda.
Valve put the game in our hands, and no one did a damn thing about the health of the game on the whole until it affected them, personally. Only then did the persecution complex kick into high gear, and we busted out the crack theories that Valve has specific anti community people who secretly move against you instead of, you know, just fucking striking you from the server list like an actual Valve employee would do. Any one server owner is not important enough to even entertain the paranoia theories abound here. There is one group responsible for the state of the tf2 community, and its the tf2 community. On Aug 4, 2015 1:32 PM, "Tim Anderson" <twjander...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are not responsible for other people's actions. Does the police jail an > entire neighborhood because they keep finding criminals there? If you want > me to be responsible for what other people do, then give me the ability to > ban servers from the master list. > > The way Valve dealt with bad servers, if that is actually the problem, is > both lazy and unfitting of a supposedly top company. > > I remember deciding between joining a battlefield or tf2 community, and > thinking that the tf2 community would last longer because battlefield > community servers were second tier servers much like tf2 servers are now. I > thought to myself, Valve would never do something like that. At least EA > didn't change such a major aspect in the middle of the game's lifetime. > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Matthias "InstantMuffin" Kollek < > proph...@sticed.org> wrote: > >> You can blame your fellow server-ops for that. >> The only thing you can blame valve for is kicking all our asses instead >> of adding a proper report and blacklist system to deal with these ********. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> > > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Matthias "InstantMuffin" Kollek < > proph...@sticed.org> wrote: > >> You can blame your fellow server-ops for that. >> The only thing you can blame valve for is kicking all our asses instead >> of adding a proper report and blacklist system to deal with these ********. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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