Re: [hlds] L4D-Demo Private Server?

2008-11-13 Thread Olly
I think the command to set the join password for a game is 'password'
'sv_password' is where the password is stored on the server

2008/11/13 volker [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 on the server:

 EDIT ../left4dead/cfg/server.cfg
 === cut
 hostname NAME
 rcon_password PASSWORD
 mp_logdetail 0
 setmaster add 68.142.72.250:27011
 setmaster add 72.165.61.189:27011
 sv_voiceenable 1
 sv_alltalk 0
 sv_search_key SEARCHKEY
 === cut

 START the server

 // check if SEARCHKEY is set:
 in server console: help sv_search_key


 on the client:

 EDIT ..\SteamApps\common\left 4 dead demo\left4dead\cfg\Autoexec.cfg
 === cut
 sv_search_key SEARCHKEY
 // for ppl like me, who don`t have a ` on their keyboard
 bind f10 toggleconsole
 === cut

 OR

 start the game with ...steam\Steam.exe -applaunch 530 -console
 and input sv_search_key SEARCHKEY in console

 // check if SEARCHKEY is set:
 in client console: help sv_search_key

 how to play:

 clan style: each member can open a lobby for friends on your server (if
 it doesn't already exist) and other members will connect through steam
 friends list (or via the in-game friends list, haven't tested that yet)

 semi-open style: open a lobby for friends but change the settings to
 public  game and in-game matchmaking will add players to your server.
 (sometimes the start-lobby-button switches to search-lobby-button after
 changing the settings; game will then start searching for public server.
 have no explanation why, maybe a bug?)

 special-case: when you leave the semi-open style, and people are still
 playing, then one of the remaing players becomes host of the game. if you
 want to get control of your server again, you have to kickt the players or
 restart the server; haven't found any better solution yet.

 cheers,

 volker

 deine mail vom Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 um 23:54:

 GW Just a quick question.

 GW I read through a few hundred emails, I got everything working great..
 Thanks all early-adopters.

 GW Is there a way to set the server for private use only?  Via a password,
 or something similar?


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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Patrick Shelley
whitelist would be gr8 idea!

On 11/13/08, Timothy L Havener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 From each according to his bandwidth to each according to his need.


 Andrew Richman wrote:
  it's not your server, it's our server...
 
  On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:30 PM, [ЯтR] The-/iller
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  i just gave them a friendly kick, esp because they said their friends
  were coming but never did, at minimum a vote cancel command, along with
  this people mentioned that admin res files in the resource folder but
  theres no explantion on how server admins should put this to use?
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Thats when you ban them ;)
 
 
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  Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2008 2:00 PM
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  Subject: [hlds] L4d vote kicking
 
 
  Had fun getting vote kicked from my own server today by 2 pubbers, just
  a suggestion to have a whitelist for steamids that can't be voted off?
 
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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Andrew Noland
Is there a command to disable voting in general, or hopefully, for each of
the specific items you can vote on? Difficulty change, restart campaign,
kicking.

2008/11/13 Patrick Shelley [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 whitelist would be gr8 idea!

 On 11/13/08, Timothy L Havener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  From each according to his bandwidth to each according to his need.
 
 
  Andrew Richman wrote:
   it's not your server, it's our server...
  
   On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:30 PM, [ЯтR] The-/iller
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   i just gave them a friendly kick, esp because they said their friends
   were coming but never did, at minimum a vote cancel command, along
 with
   this people mentioned that admin res files in the resource folder but
   theres no explantion on how server admins should put this to use?
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Thats when you ban them ;)
  
  
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   Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2008 2:00 PM
   To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
   Subject: [hlds] L4d vote kicking
  
  
   Had fun getting vote kicked from my own server today by 2 pubbers,
 just
   a suggestion to have a whitelist for steamids that can't be voted
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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Leonard L. Church
Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and 
you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the 
window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get 
voted on.

I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit 
and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait 
for them to rejoin.

Valve, please don't do this.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
2008/11/13 Leonard L. Church [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and
 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
 voted on.

 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait
 for them to rejoin.

 Valve, please don't do this.

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its happening every day on counter strike servers. :)

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Leonard L. Church
Yeah.. and we know how true to the original game counterstrike is. :)

Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
 2008/11/13 Leonard L. Church [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and
 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
 voted on.

 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait
 for them to rejoin.

 Valve, please don't do this.

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 its happening every day on counter strike servers. :)
 
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[hlds] Switch for Running Multiple Server.cfg's

2008-11-13 Thread Robert Whelan
Wazza?

On all the other mods I run I've used unique filepath directories though now 
with the l4d servers I'm running I'm focused on setting them up to run from a 
shared directory. I using the cdmline switch +servercfgfile though it reports 
'unknown command servercfgfile' at the server load, crazy thing is... its 
loading the server.cfg's I want ie: server-1, server-2, server-3 etc.

I'd be curious to hear how some others might be doing things...?

The reason I ask is... i've runin into this crazy bug that I can't figure out...

For those that wish to continue reading...


What I observed and reported to our friends at Valve:

I was able to run a server which populated and stayed full for many hours. This 
morning I saw a few comment that they were not getting any traffic, myself 
included.

I restarted the server and it seems im back to crashing every 3 minutes as 
reported last week. I'm running basically a vanilla server and was forced to 
shut down our l4d servers. Upon crash there are no mini dumps generated for me 
to send.

Stats:-

Win2k3x64, 4gb ddr2 1066, 15k raptor (l4d up to date)

Cmdline:-

srcds.exe -game left4dead -console +map l4d_dem_hospital01_apartment -ip 
xx.xx.xx.xx +hostport x

Server.cfg

hostname blabla
setmaster add 68.142.72.250:27011
setmaster add 72.165.61.189:27011


About a day later I reported again with a way which seemed to get things 
working:

Out of frustration I began this morning looking to see if there was any update 
news or any changes to l4d etc. I fired up the same troubled server environment 
I wrote you about. To my surprise it ran fine for probably 3 hours and we all 
fragged some zombies. 

Now, my plan was to shut the server down and reconfig things to run a few more 
apps from the existing l4d directory on diff ports etc 30025, 30035, 30045 and 
run server-8 server-9 server-10 .cfgs which would be identified with the 
cmdline addition +servercfgfile server-8.cfg etc. etc.

Now I restarted the first l4d server to test and it was back to square one 
crashing consistently every 3 minutes. So, I reverted back to the basic 
server.cfg as described below and removed +servercfgfile server-8.cfg from the 
commandline. This had no effect and the server continually kept crashing every 
3 mins.

At this point I'm totally baffled, my next step I removed the server.cfg 
entirely and started the server, you can see in the attached console dump it 
looks for the server cfg though its not found and the server runs past the 3 
minute mark without crashing. Now I manually load the server config loaded with 
hostname and setmaster info (people connect and the server awakes) and its up 
and running and doesn't seem to be crashing.

I know if you cant reproduce the error its probably tuff to fix though if 
memory serves me right I think others posted troubles on the hlds list about 
no server.cfg troubles. I'm not sure if any of this info will help though I 
hope it does.

Thx for reading...


  
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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
2008/11/13 Leonard L. Church [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Yeah.. and we know how true to the original game counterstrike is. :)

 Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
  2008/11/13 Leonard L. Church [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and
  you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
  window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
  voted on.
 
  I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
  and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait
  for them to rejoin.
 
  Valve, please don't do this.
 
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  its happening every day on counter strike servers. :)
 
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sorry, I was trying to say this in an ironic way.
It was funny, that after so many years of
admins-ruling-on-their-own-servers, somebody said that it isn't right. :)

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[hlds] L4D - Server admins, remove your sv_tags !

2008-11-13 Thread AnAkIn .
Many people use the sv_tags lines which set your server to Server Browser
Join Enabled now.

The only problem with it is that there is a BUG with sv_tags in Left 4 Dead,
when you set it to something long (like Server Browser Join Enabled), people
can no longer join from a lobby.

It seems that some people can connect from time to time, I don't know why.
Maybe it is also related to sv_search_key, it makes your sv_tags bigger (in
the server browser tags column you can see it).

I guess most people would like their servers to have players almost all the
time.


To VALVe:

The Tags column in the Server Browser shows the sv_search_key, like this :
sv_search_keyYOURSEARCHKEY36. Shouldn't that be removed so only the people
you only give the sv_search_key to people you know and not everybody know
it?


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Re: [hlds] L4D - Server admins, remove your sv_tags !

2008-11-13 Thread AnAkIn .
Yes, it it also related to sv_search_key, just tested.


sv_search_key lolnoob would work


sv_search_key lolnooblolnooblolnooblolnooblolnooblolnooblolnoob

would not work because it makes sv_tags longer.

2008/11/13 AnAkIn . [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Many people use the sv_tags lines which set your server to Server Browser
 Join Enabled now.

 The only problem with it is that there is a BUG with sv_tags in Left 4
 Dead, when you set it to something long (like Server Browser Join Enabled),
 people can no longer join from a lobby.

 It seems that some people can connect from time to time, I don't know why.
 Maybe it is also related to sv_search_key, it makes your sv_tags bigger (in
 the server browser tags column you can see it).

 I guess most people would like their servers to have players almost all the
 time.


 To VALVe:

 The Tags column in the Server Browser shows the sv_search_key, like this :
 sv_search_keyYOURSEARCHKEY36. Shouldn't that be removed so only the people
 you only give the sv_search_key to people you know and not everybody know
 it?


 AnAkIn

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
You can't be serious.


-Original Message-
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L. Church
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and 
you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the 
window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get 
voted on.

I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit 
and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait 
for them to rejoin.

Valve, please don't do this.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Leonard L. Church
I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and this 
appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.

Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
 You can't be serious.
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L. Church
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking
 
 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and 
 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the 
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get 
 voted on.
 
 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit 
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait 
 for them to rejoin.
 
 Valve, please don't do this.
 
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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
2008/11/13 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 You can't be serious.


 -Original Message-
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 Church
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and
 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
 voted on.

 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait
 for them to rejoin.

 Valve, please don't do this.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Don Williams
why so srs?!
- Original Message - 
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 You can't be serious.


 -Original Message-
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 Church
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and
 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
 voted on.

 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait
 for them to rejoin.

 Valve, please don't do this.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
2008/11/13 Don Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 why so srs?

Let's put a smiley on that face...

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
So let me get this straight.

Let's say, I decide to run a nightclub, the nightclub is public. Anyone can
go to my nightclub.

You are saying that, I should not have control of who I can kick out of my
nightclub?

That's essentially what a server is, a club, it's operated by me, it is paid
for by me. It is essentially my private property, and if I do not want
someone on it, I have the right to remove them from it. They can counter of
course, by going to another server.

Having some logic in my own club that allows a few troublemakers to
essentially throw me out of my own club is pretty ridiculous. 

You obviously do not run a server with the kind of stance you are taking.

If you do not like a server, open console, type... disconnect. Wow, that's
really hard.

- voogru

-Original Message-
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Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and this 
appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.

Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
 You can't be serious.
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Church
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking
 
 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and 
 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the 
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get 
 voted on.
 
 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit 
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait 
 for them to rejoin.
 
 Valve, please don't do this.
 
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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Leonard L. Church
Ok.. You want to get into it... We can.

Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
 So let me get this straight.

No... To easy... I'll let that one slide.

 Let's say, I decide to run a nightclub, the nightclub is public. Anyone can
 go to my nightclub.

If your nightclub can only hold 4 people (counting yourself), then 
perhaps you would have a point.

 You are saying that, I should not have control of who I can kick out of my
 nightclub?

If someone is trashing your nightclub (of you and 3 other people), then 
yes. Kick them out. If they are obeying the rules and not harming 
things, no. I don't think you should be able to.

But this isn't a nightclub. This is more like 2 bikes you own that you 
left out in the park with a sign saying, Anyone can ride these bikes, 
then pushing off people who ride them because you want to.

 That's essentially what a server is, a club, it's operated by me, it is paid
 for by me. It is essentially my private property, and if I do not want
 someone on it, I have the right to remove them from it. They can counter of
 course, by going to another server.

Actually, you rent servers mostly. You might not, but that's neither 
here nor there as we are talking about server owners in general and not 
how big your ... server... is.

For TF2 and CSS and games that have bigger sizes, then yes. I would 
agree with you that you should have more control over this. But it 
isn't. It's a small server and it's not a nightclub.. No matter how much 
you want it to be.

 Having some logic in my own club that allows a few troublemakers to
 essentially throw me out of my own club is pretty ridiculous. 

If you offer a service to the public, then you should be willing to obey 
the public rule. You don't become a cop and say, You know, I don't 
agree with that law. I'm going to shoot that guy anyway.

 You obviously do not run a server with the kind of stance you are taking.

I love your logic. Because I disagree with you, I don't run a server. :)

You got me.. I don't have a server at all.. *chuckles* Apparently, if I 
owned a server (which I do), I would agree with everything you say.

 If you do not like a server, open console, type... disconnect. Wow, that's
 really hard.

No one said that is hard.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Neal Daringer
now. i thinnk i may be oversimplifying this, but are you saying that I 
shouldn't have the ability to be a higher level user on the server 
that I administer/officiate/etc?

i think there should be some kind of authentication system for server 
admins. so they can join a game on their server (either to spectate, 
join, etc). kind of like a reserved slot. a way for the admin to stay 
seperate of the other users. I don't expect much from the demo version 
of the server but the full release of L4D I expect a little more play in 
the server config.

Leonard L. Church wrote:
 Ok.. You want to get into it... We can.

 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
   
 So let me get this straight.
 

 No... To easy... I'll let that one slide.

   
 Let's say, I decide to run a nightclub, the nightclub is public. Anyone can
 go to my nightclub.
 

 If your nightclub can only hold 4 people (counting yourself), then 
 perhaps you would have a point.

   
 You are saying that, I should not have control of who I can kick out of my
 nightclub?
 

 If someone is trashing your nightclub (of you and 3 other people), then 
 yes. Kick them out. If they are obeying the rules and not harming 
 things, no. I don't think you should be able to.

 But this isn't a nightclub. This is more like 2 bikes you own that you 
 left out in the park with a sign saying, Anyone can ride these bikes, 
 then pushing off people who ride them because you want to.

   
 That's essentially what a server is, a club, it's operated by me, it is paid
 for by me. It is essentially my private property, and if I do not want
 someone on it, I have the right to remove them from it. They can counter of
 course, by going to another server.
 

 Actually, you rent servers mostly. You might not, but that's neither 
 here nor there as we are talking about server owners in general and not 
 how big your ... server... is.

 For TF2 and CSS and games that have bigger sizes, then yes. I would 
 agree with you that you should have more control over this. But it 
 isn't. It's a small server and it's not a nightclub.. No matter how much 
 you want it to be.

   
 Having some logic in my own club that allows a few troublemakers to
 essentially throw me out of my own club is pretty ridiculous. 
 

 If you offer a service to the public, then you should be willing to obey 
 the public rule. You don't become a cop and say, You know, I don't 
 agree with that law. I'm going to shoot that guy anyway.

   
 You obviously do not run a server with the kind of stance you are taking.
 

 I love your logic. Because I disagree with you, I don't run a server. :)

 You got me.. I don't have a server at all.. *chuckles* Apparently, if I 
 owned a server (which I do), I would agree with everything you say.

   
 If you do not like a server, open console, type... disconnect. Wow, that's
 really hard.
 

 No one said that is hard.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
If they are obeying the rules and not harming things, no. I don't think you
should be able to.

And is valve going to make some code to check if they are obeying the rules?


No, it's up to me to decide if they break the rules. 

But this isn't a nightclub. This is more like 2 bikes you own that you 
left out in the park with a sign saying, Anyone can ride these bikes, 
then pushing off people who ride them because you want to.

Bad analogy. It's more like, Anyone can ride these bikes, as long as you
don't steal them, damage them, or use them for illegal purposes. If you do,
I will take away the bike, WARNING: This may involve pushing you off the
bike.

If you offer a service to the public, then you should be willing to obey
the public rule. You don't become a cop and say, You know, I don't agree
with that law. I'm going to shoot that guy anyway.

Woah, another bad analogy. If I offer a service to the public and it's on my
property, it's still my property. If a person becomes threatening (say, with
a deadly weapon), then guess what, here in Florida... I can shoot him!

Otherwise if he's just being a troublemaker without a weapon, I have every
right to kick him out of my property for any reason I deem.

That is essentially what happens on my servers. If you break the rules,
you're out.

Taking away power from the administrators over their own servers will ensure
that there will be no quality game servers. Period. Enjoy those lovely
listen servers. 

I'm sick of these people who think they have a right to play on someones
server, if you have an abusive admin, you can leave the server and not go
there again. This is an issue with L4D though because of the automatic
server selection but I'm sure it will be fixed.

When you are on a third party server, you are in someone else's house,
you're allowed to be there, but the owner is ultimately who decides if you
can be there or not. 

Let's see you go to a public party at someone's house, the owner doesn't
like you for whatever reason and asks you to leave, you refuse. He calls the
cops (rather than getting his big friends to drag you out kicking and
screaming).

You can't just say to the cops, Hey I wasn't breaking the rules, the person
who OWNS the property can't kick me out cause I was obeying the rules!. 

It doesn't matter, IT'S THE OWNERS PROPERTY. 

- voogru
 
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L. Church
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:51 PM
To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

Ok.. You want to get into it... We can.

Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
 So let me get this straight.

No... To easy... I'll let that one slide.

 Let's say, I decide to run a nightclub, the nightclub is public. Anyone
can
 go to my nightclub.

If your nightclub can only hold 4 people (counting yourself), then 
perhaps you would have a point.

 You are saying that, I should not have control of who I can kick out of my
 nightclub?

If someone is trashing your nightclub (of you and 3 other people), then 
yes. Kick them out. If they are obeying the rules and not harming 
things, no. I don't think you should be able to.

But this isn't a nightclub. This is more like 2 bikes you own that you 
left out in the park with a sign saying, Anyone can ride these bikes, 
then pushing off people who ride them because you want to.

 That's essentially what a server is, a club, it's operated by me, it is
paid
 for by me. It is essentially my private property, and if I do not want
 someone on it, I have the right to remove them from it. They can counter
of
 course, by going to another server.

Actually, you rent servers mostly. You might not, but that's neither 
here nor there as we are talking about server owners in general and not 
how big your ... server... is.

For TF2 and CSS and games that have bigger sizes, then yes. I would 
agree with you that you should have more control over this. But it 
isn't. It's a small server and it's not a nightclub.. No matter how much 
you want it to be.

 Having some logic in my own club that allows a few troublemakers to
 essentially throw me out of my own club is pretty ridiculous. 

If you offer a service to the public, then you should be willing to obey 
the public rule. You don't become a cop and say, You know, I don't 
agree with that law. I'm going to shoot that guy anyway.

 You obviously do not run a server with the kind of stance you are taking.

I love your logic. Because I disagree with you, I don't run a server. :)

You got me.. I don't have a server at all.. *chuckles* Apparently, if I 
owned a server (which I do), I would agree with everything you say.

 If you do not like a server, open console, type... disconnect. Wow, that's
 really hard.

No one said that is hard.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Timothy L Havener
Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous 
statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my 
friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have no 
say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time? If 
Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old 
doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own servers.  
I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to play 
where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do this 
and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.

Leonard L. Church wrote:
 I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and this 
 appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.

 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
   
 You can't be serious.


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L. Church
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and 
 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the 
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get 
 voted on.

 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit 
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait 
 for them to rejoin.

 Valve, please don't do this.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread J T
Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the game and
not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked with
your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
 statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my
 friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have no
 say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time? If
 Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
 doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own servers.
 I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to play
 where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do this
 and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.

 Leonard L. Church wrote:
  I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and this
  appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.
 
  Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
 
  You can't be serious.
 
 
  -Original Message-
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  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
 Church
  Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
  To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
  Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking
 
  Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and
  you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
  window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
  voted on.
 
  I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
  and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait
  for them to rejoin.
 
  Valve, please don't do this.
 
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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Timothy L Havener
According to his argument I invite 3 guys over to my house for a card 
game.  In the middle of the card game they decide they want me out of 
the card game.  Its my house but  they vote to kick me out.  Then they 
bring in some other guy to take my spot and I am left to sit and watch.  
Would you let this happen in your own home?  Or in some cases here in 
your mother's basement?

Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
 If they are obeying the rules and not harming things, no. I don't think you
 should be able to.

 And is valve going to make some code to check if they are obeying the rules?


 No, it's up to me to decide if they break the rules. 

 But this isn't a nightclub. This is more like 2 bikes you own that you 
 left out in the park with a sign saying, Anyone can ride these bikes, 
 then pushing off people who ride them because you want to.

 Bad analogy. It's more like, Anyone can ride these bikes, as long as you
 don't steal them, damage them, or use them for illegal purposes. If you do,
 I will take away the bike, WARNING: This may involve pushing you off the
 bike.

 If you offer a service to the public, then you should be willing to obey
 the public rule. You don't become a cop and say, You know, I don't agree
 with that law. I'm going to shoot that guy anyway.

 Woah, another bad analogy. If I offer a service to the public and it's on my
 property, it's still my property. If a person becomes threatening (say, with
 a deadly weapon), then guess what, here in Florida... I can shoot him!

 Otherwise if he's just being a troublemaker without a weapon, I have every
 right to kick him out of my property for any reason I deem.

 That is essentially what happens on my servers. If you break the rules,
 you're out.

 Taking away power from the administrators over their own servers will ensure
 that there will be no quality game servers. Period. Enjoy those lovely
 listen servers. 

 I'm sick of these people who think they have a right to play on someones
 server, if you have an abusive admin, you can leave the server and not go
 there again. This is an issue with L4D though because of the automatic
 server selection but I'm sure it will be fixed.

 When you are on a third party server, you are in someone else's house,
 you're allowed to be there, but the owner is ultimately who decides if you
 can be there or not. 

 Let's see you go to a public party at someone's house, the owner doesn't
 like you for whatever reason and asks you to leave, you refuse. He calls the
 cops (rather than getting his big friends to drag you out kicking and
 screaming).

 You can't just say to the cops, Hey I wasn't breaking the rules, the person
 who OWNS the property can't kick me out cause I was obeying the rules!. 

 It doesn't matter, IT'S THE OWNERS PROPERTY. 

 - voogru
  
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L. Church
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:51 PM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 Ok.. You want to get into it... We can.

 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
   
 So let me get this straight.
 

 No... To easy... I'll let that one slide.

   
 Let's say, I decide to run a nightclub, the nightclub is public. Anyone
 
 can
   
 go to my nightclub.
 

 If your nightclub can only hold 4 people (counting yourself), then 
 perhaps you would have a point.

   
 You are saying that, I should not have control of who I can kick out of my
 nightclub?
 

 If someone is trashing your nightclub (of you and 3 other people), then 
 yes. Kick them out. If they are obeying the rules and not harming 
 things, no. I don't think you should be able to.

 But this isn't a nightclub. This is more like 2 bikes you own that you 
 left out in the park with a sign saying, Anyone can ride these bikes, 
 then pushing off people who ride them because you want to.

   
 That's essentially what a server is, a club, it's operated by me, it is
 
 paid
   
 for by me. It is essentially my private property, and if I do not want
 someone on it, I have the right to remove them from it. They can counter
 
 of
   
 course, by going to another server.
 

 Actually, you rent servers mostly. You might not, but that's neither 
 here nor there as we are talking about server owners in general and not 
 how big your ... server... is.

 For TF2 and CSS and games that have bigger sizes, then yes. I would 
 agree with you that you should have more control over this. But it 
 isn't. It's a small server and it's not a nightclub.. No matter how much 
 you want it to be.

   
 Having some logic in my own club that allows a few troublemakers to
 essentially throw me out of my own club is pretty ridiculous. 
 

 If you offer a service to the public, then you should be willing to obey 
 the public rule. You don't become a cop and say, You know, I don't 
 agree with that law. I'm going to shoot that guy anyway.

   
 

Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Timothy L Havener
So Valve is going to go down that road and blacklist the IP of anyone 
who kicks someone unfairly?  Besides that is also only for ranked 
servers.  There are unranked servers that do not have those rules and 
you can do as you please.

J T wrote:
 Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the game and
 not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked with
 your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   
 Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
 statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my
 friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have no
 say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time? If
 Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
 doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own servers.
 I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to play
 where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do this
 and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.

 Leonard L. Church wrote:
 
 I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and this
 appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.

 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:

   
 You can't be serious.


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
 
 Church
 
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and
 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
 voted on.

 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait
 for them to rejoin.

 Valve, please don't do this.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Leonard L. Church
I seriously don't want to argue the point more then I already did. It 
appears other server operators feel differently and the mob will rule on 
this one.

Comparing a rented server to your house or nightclub is silly. Also, 
comparing kicking someone equaling murder is also silly.

Decide what you want. I'm out of the L4D game.

Timothy L Havener wrote:
 So Valve is going to go down that road and blacklist the IP of anyone 
 who kicks someone unfairly?  Besides that is also only for ranked 
 servers.  There are unranked servers that do not have those rules and 
 you can do as you please.
 
 J T wrote:
 Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the game and
 not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked with
 your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   
 Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
 statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my
 friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have no
 say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time? If
 Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
 doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own servers.
 I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to play
 where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do this
 and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.

 Leonard L. Church wrote:
 
 I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and this
 appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.

 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:

   
 You can't be serious.


 -Original Message-
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 Church
 
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and
 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
 voted on.

 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait
 for them to rejoin.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread J T
They can enforce it if they wanted to. Whats going to stop them? They can
pretty much do what they want to do, people will either take it or leave it.

With the match making system and the openbrowser, there are going to be two
divides. The vanilla l4d and the custom l4d. Custom maps are already being
created and played on regular servers.

What is valve trying to do with a matchmaking system. The only other game
that I can think of recently that does the same thing is combat arms. But
the servers are hosted by the games creator nexxon, not the community. And
it looks like its working for them.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Timothy L Havener 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 So Valve is going to go down that road and blacklist the IP of anyone
 who kicks someone unfairly?  Besides that is also only for ranked
 servers.  There are unranked servers that do not have those rules and
 you can do as you please.

 J T wrote:
  Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the game
 and
  not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked
 with
  your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.
 
  On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
  Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
  statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my
  friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have no
  say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time? If
  Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
  doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own servers.
  I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to play
  where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do this
  and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.
 
  Leonard L. Church wrote:
 
  I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and this
  appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.
 
  Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
 
 
  You can't be serious.
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
 
  Church
 
  Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
  To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
  Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking
 
  Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and
  you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
  window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
  voted on.
 
  I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
  and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait
  for them to rejoin.
 
  Valve, please don't do this.
 
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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread msleeper
The comparison is not silly at all, it's very parallel to having a
privately owned server. Valve is not forcing anyone to run servers, and
until server operators are compensated in some way for running a server
and being forced to be just one of the crowd, there is nothing wrong
whatsoever with someone running it how they wish.

Not all servers are created equally - despite what the Matchmaker and
the Lobby System may make you think. Some server admins don't want
immature players on their servers, and some server admins are onboard
with the everyone is equal train like you seem to be. Personally, I
run server for adults and the mature gaming crowd, and when someone
comes in and decides to act up or sass the PAYING owners, I don't think
twice about hitting the ban button.

Do I expect everyone to act this way? Of course not. Would I continue to
support Left 4 Dead if I, as a paying owner, were punished for using my
end product in any way I choose to? Of course not, either. Bottom line
is that nobody is telling -you- how to run your server, and it's not
fair for you to try and tell others how to run theirs. And frankly it is
a bit childish to toss away a game just because a server owner won't be
reprimanded for running his server the way he likes - even if that means
making you angry. Like voogru said, hit Disconnect and call it a day.

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 14:44 -0800, Leonard L. Church wrote:
 I seriously don't want to argue the point more then I already did. It 
 appears other server operators feel differently and the mob will rule on 
 this one.
 
 Comparing a rented server to your house or nightclub is silly. Also, 
 comparing kicking someone equaling murder is also silly.
 
 Decide what you want. I'm out of the L4D game.
 
 Timothy L Havener wrote:
  So Valve is going to go down that road and blacklist the IP of anyone 
  who kicks someone unfairly?  Besides that is also only for ranked 
  servers.  There are unranked servers that do not have those rules and 
  you can do as you please.
  
  J T wrote:
  Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the game and
  not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked with
  your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.
 
  On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 

  Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
  statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my
  friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have no
  say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time? If
  Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
  doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own servers.
  I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to play
  where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do this
  and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.
 
  Leonard L. Church wrote:
  
  I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and this
  appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.
 
  Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
 

  You can't be serious.
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
  
  Church
  
  Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
  To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
  Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking
 
  Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and
  you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
  window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
  voted on.
 
  I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
  and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait
  for them to rejoin.
 
  Valve, please don't do this.
 
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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
Mob ftw.

-Original Message-
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Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:44 PM
To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

I seriously don't want to argue the point more then I already did. It 
appears other server operators feel differently and the mob will rule on 
this one.

Comparing a rented server to your house or nightclub is silly. Also, 
comparing kicking someone equaling murder is also silly.

Decide what you want. I'm out of the L4D game.

Timothy L Havener wrote:
 So Valve is going to go down that road and blacklist the IP of anyone 
 who kicks someone unfairly?  Besides that is also only for ranked 
 servers.  There are unranked servers that do not have those rules and 
 you can do as you please.
 
 J T wrote:
 Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the game
and
 not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked
with
 your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   
 Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
 statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my
 friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have no
 say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time? If
 Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
 doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own servers.
 I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to play
 where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do this
 and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.

 Leonard L. Church wrote:
 
 I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and this
 appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.

 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:

   
 You can't be serious.


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
 
 Church
 
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public (and
 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
 voted on.

 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then wait
 for them to rejoin.

 Valve, please don't do this.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Cc2iscooL
Even though I consider voogru generally annoying... ;)

He does have a point. You own the server, you own the rights to do whatever
you want and enforce whatever rules you want. Period. If you don't like the
way admins run their servers, start up a listen server and bitch to the
people that join and then complain that the game is laggy. :)

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Mob ftw.

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
 Church
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:44 PM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 I seriously don't want to argue the point more then I already did. It
 appears other server operators feel differently and the mob will rule on
 this one.

 Comparing a rented server to your house or nightclub is silly. Also,
 comparing kicking someone equaling murder is also silly.

 Decide what you want. I'm out of the L4D game.

 Timothy L Havener wrote:
  So Valve is going to go down that road and blacklist the IP of anyone
  who kicks someone unfairly?  Besides that is also only for ranked
  servers.  There are unranked servers that do not have those rules and
  you can do as you please.
 
  J T wrote:
  Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the game
 and
  not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked
 with
  your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.
 
  On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
  Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
  statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my
  friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have
 no
  say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time?
 If
  Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
  doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own servers.
  I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to play
  where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do this
  and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.
 
  Leonard L. Church wrote:
 
  I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and
 this
  appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.
 
  Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
 
 
  You can't be serious.
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
 
  Church
 
  Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
  To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
  Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking
 
  Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public
 (and
  you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
  window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
  voted on.
 
  I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
  and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then
 wait
  for them to rejoin.
 
  Valve, please don't do this.
 
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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Timothy L Havener
It really frightens me that kids are growing up with this unrealistic 
belief that everything is supposed to be fair to the point they cannot 
take the rejection of being kicked from a game server.  Life isn't 
fair.  Pick yourself up and dust yourself off and just find another server


Cc2iscooL wrote:
 Even though I consider voogru generally annoying... ;)

 He does have a point. You own the server, you own the rights to do whatever
 you want and enforce whatever rules you want. Period. If you don't like the
 way admins run their servers, start up a listen server and bitch to the
 people that join and then complain that the game is laggy. :)

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   
 Mob ftw.

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
 Church
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:44 PM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 I seriously don't want to argue the point more then I already did. It
 appears other server operators feel differently and the mob will rule on
 this one.

 Comparing a rented server to your house or nightclub is silly. Also,
 comparing kicking someone equaling murder is also silly.

 Decide what you want. I'm out of the L4D game.

 Timothy L Havener wrote:
 
 So Valve is going to go down that road and blacklist the IP of anyone
 who kicks someone unfairly?  Besides that is also only for ranked
 servers.  There are unranked servers that do not have those rules and
 you can do as you please.

 J T wrote:
   
 Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the game
 
 and
 
 not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked
 
 with
 
 your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 
 Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
 statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my
 friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have
   
 no
 
 say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time?
   
 If
 
 Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
 doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own servers.
 I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to play
 where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do this
 and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.

 Leonard L. Church wrote:

   
 I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and
 
 this
 
 appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.

 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:


 
 You can't be serious.


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.

   
 Church

   
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public
   
 (and
 
 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
 voted on.

 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then
   
 wait
 
 for them to rejoin.

 Valve, please don't do this.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Olly
Valve don't make the rules when it comes to our servers. They only have the
right to protect their IP. So if someone comes in my server who has 3
arms... and I have a no 3 arm'd people rule... then they are out.
If an admin is being an idiot, then the players can connect to another
server. Easy.

2008/11/13 Cc2iscooL [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Even though I consider voogru generally annoying... ;)

 He does have a point. You own the server, you own the rights to do whatever
 you want and enforce whatever rules you want. Period. If you don't like the
 way admins run their servers, start up a listen server and bitch to the
 people that join and then complain that the game is laggy. :)

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Mob ftw.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
  Church
  Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:44 PM
  To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
  Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking
 
  I seriously don't want to argue the point more then I already did. It
  appears other server operators feel differently and the mob will rule on
  this one.
 
  Comparing a rented server to your house or nightclub is silly. Also,
  comparing kicking someone equaling murder is also silly.
 
  Decide what you want. I'm out of the L4D game.
 
  Timothy L Havener wrote:
   So Valve is going to go down that road and blacklist the IP of anyone
   who kicks someone unfairly?  Besides that is also only for ranked
   servers.  There are unranked servers that do not have those rules and
   you can do as you please.
  
   J T wrote:
   Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the game
  and
   not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked
  with
   your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.
  
   On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  
   Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
   statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my
   friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have
  no
   say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time?
  If
   Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
   doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own
 servers.
   I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to
 play
   where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do
 this
   and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.
  
   Leonard L. Church wrote:
  
   I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and
  this
   appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.
  
   Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
  
  
   You can't be serious.
  
  
   -Original Message-
   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard
 L.
  
   Church
  
   Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
   To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
   Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking
  
   Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public
  (and
   you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out
 the
   window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
   voted on.
  
   I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just
 sit
   and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then
  wait
   for them to rejoin.
  
   Valve, please don't do this.
  
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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread 1nsane
When server owners start having no control over who plays on their servers
is the time that most public servers will disappear. There is absolutely no
incentive to pay someone Else's rent when they can kick you out at any time,
especially when it should be the opposite.
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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Erik Johnson
This is in the realm of a non constructive thread.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy L Havener
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:37 PM
To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

It really frightens me that kids are growing up with this unrealistic
belief that everything is supposed to be fair to the point they cannot
take the rejection of being kicked from a game server.  Life isn't
fair.  Pick yourself up and dust yourself off and just find another server


Cc2iscooL wrote:
 Even though I consider voogru generally annoying... ;)

 He does have a point. You own the server, you own the rights to do whatever
 you want and enforce whatever rules you want. Period. If you don't like the
 way admins run their servers, start up a listen server and bitch to the
 people that join and then complain that the game is laggy. :)

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 Mob ftw.

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
 Church
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:44 PM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 I seriously don't want to argue the point more then I already did. It
 appears other server operators feel differently and the mob will rule on
 this one.

 Comparing a rented server to your house or nightclub is silly. Also,
 comparing kicking someone equaling murder is also silly.

 Decide what you want. I'm out of the L4D game.

 Timothy L Havener wrote:

 So Valve is going to go down that road and blacklist the IP of anyone
 who kicks someone unfairly?  Besides that is also only for ranked
 servers.  There are unranked servers that do not have those rules and
 you can do as you please.

 J T wrote:

 Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the game

 and

 not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked

 with

 your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



 Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
 statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my
 friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have

 no

 say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time?

 If

 Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
 doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own servers.
 I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to play
 where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do this
 and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.

 Leonard L. Church wrote:


 I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and

 this

 appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.

 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:



 You can't be serious.


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.


 Church


 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public

 (and

 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
 voted on.

 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then

 wait

 for them to rejoin.

 Valve, please don't do this.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Timothy L Havener
You have to see it from the point of view from those of us who host 
servers.  We bust our asses trying to build a community and fun 
environment for people to play your games.  Some little kid with mommy 
issues complains about being kicked and kicks up a fuss and his opinion 
is considered valid enough to warrant restrictions being placed on us.  
Its a bit frustrating...

You let them vent and you hear their voices...hear ours...please.


Erik Johnson wrote:
 This is in the realm of a non constructive thread.

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy L 
 Havener
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:37 PM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 It really frightens me that kids are growing up with this unrealistic
 belief that everything is supposed to be fair to the point they cannot
 take the rejection of being kicked from a game server.  Life isn't
 fair.  Pick yourself up and dust yourself off and just find another server


 Cc2iscooL wrote:
   
 Even though I consider voogru generally annoying... ;)

 He does have a point. You own the server, you own the rights to do whatever
 you want and enforce whatever rules you want. Period. If you don't like the
 way admins run their servers, start up a listen server and bitch to the
 people that join and then complain that the game is laggy. :)

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 
 Mob ftw.

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
 Church
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:44 PM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 I seriously don't want to argue the point more then I already did. It
 appears other server operators feel differently and the mob will rule on
 this one.

 Comparing a rented server to your house or nightclub is silly. Also,
 comparing kicking someone equaling murder is also silly.

 Decide what you want. I'm out of the L4D game.

 Timothy L Havener wrote:

   
 So Valve is going to go down that road and blacklist the IP of anyone
 who kicks someone unfairly?  Besides that is also only for ranked
 servers.  There are unranked servers that do not have those rules and
 you can do as you please.

 J T wrote:

 
 Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the game

   
 and

   
 not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked

   
 with

   
 your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



   
 Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
 statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my
 friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have

 
 no

   
 say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time?

 
 If

   
 Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
 doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own servers.
 I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to play
 where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do this
 and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.

 Leonard L. Church wrote:


 
 I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and

   
 this

   
 appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.

 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:



   
 You can't be serious.


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.


 
 Church


 
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public

 
 (and

   














































 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
 voted on.

 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then

 
 wait

   
 for them to rejoin.

 Valve, please don't do this.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Neal Daringer
the word of the lord.

praise be to valve.

Erik Johnson wrote:
 This is in the realm of a non constructive thread.

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy L 
 Havener
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:37 PM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 It really frightens me that kids are growing up with this unrealistic
 belief that everything is supposed to be fair to the point they cannot
 take the rejection of being kicked from a game server.  Life isn't
 fair.  Pick yourself up and dust yourself off and just find another server


 Cc2iscooL wrote:
   
 Even though I consider voogru generally annoying... ;)

 He does have a point. You own the server, you own the rights to do whatever
 you want and enforce whatever rules you want. Period. If you don't like the
 way admins run their servers, start up a listen server and bitch to the
 people that join and then complain that the game is laggy. :)

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 
 Mob ftw.

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
 Church
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:44 PM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 I seriously don't want to argue the point more then I already did. It
 appears other server operators feel differently and the mob will rule on
 this one.

 Comparing a rented server to your house or nightclub is silly. Also,
 comparing kicking someone equaling murder is also silly.

 Decide what you want. I'm out of the L4D game.

 Timothy L Havener wrote:

   
 So Valve is going to go down that road and blacklist the IP of anyone
 who kicks someone unfairly?  Besides that is also only for ranked
 servers.  There are unranked servers that do not have those rules and
 you can do as you please.

 J T wrote:

 
 Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the game

   
 and

   
 not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked

   
 with

   
 your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



   
 Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
 statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my
 friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have

 
 no

   
 say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time?

 
 If

   
 Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
 doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own servers.
 I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to play
 where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do this
 and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.

 Leonard L. Church wrote:


 
 I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and

   
 this

   
 appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.

 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:



   
 You can't be serious.


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.


 
 Church


 
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public

 
 (and

   
 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
 voted on.

 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just sit
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then

 
 wait

   
 for them to rejoin.

 Valve, please don't do this.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Brunelle
I highly doubt these so called restrictions were put in place because of
your little scenario... We've been down this road before, please try and
move FORWARD.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy L Havener
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:56 PM
To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

You have to see it from the point of view from those of us who host 
servers.  We bust our asses trying to build a community and fun 
environment for people to play your games.  Some little kid with mommy 
issues complains about being kicked and kicks up a fuss and his opinion 
is considered valid enough to warrant restrictions being placed on us.  
Its a bit frustrating...

You let them vent and you hear their voices...hear ours...please.


Erik Johnson wrote:
 This is in the realm of a non constructive thread.

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy L Havener
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:37 PM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 It really frightens me that kids are growing up with this unrealistic
 belief that everything is supposed to be fair to the point they cannot
 take the rejection of being kicked from a game server.  Life isn't
 fair.  Pick yourself up and dust yourself off and just find another server


 Cc2iscooL wrote:
   
 Even though I consider voogru generally annoying... ;)

 He does have a point. You own the server, you own the rights to do
whatever
 you want and enforce whatever rules you want. Period. If you don't like
the
 way admins run their servers, start up a listen server and bitch to the
 people that join and then complain that the game is laggy. :)

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 
 Mob ftw.

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
 Church
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:44 PM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 I seriously don't want to argue the point more then I already did. It
 appears other server operators feel differently and the mob will rule on
 this one.

 Comparing a rented server to your house or nightclub is silly. Also,
 comparing kicking someone equaling murder is also silly.

 Decide what you want. I'm out of the L4D game.

 Timothy L Havener wrote:

   
 So Valve is going to go down that road and blacklist the IP of anyone
 who kicks someone unfairly?  Besides that is also only for ranked
 servers.  There are unranked servers that do not have those rules and
 you can do as you please.

 J T wrote:

 
 Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the game

   
 and

   
 not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked

   
 with

   
 your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



   
 Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
 statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my
 friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have

 
 no

   
 say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time?

 
 If

   
 Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
 doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own
servers.
 I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to
play
 where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do
this
 and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.

 Leonard L. Church wrote:


 
 I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and

   
 this

   
 appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.

 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:



   
 You can't be serious.


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard
L.


 
 Church


 
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public

 
 (and

   














































 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out
the
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
 voted on.

 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just
sit
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then

 
 wait

   
 for them to rejoin.

 Valve, please don't do this.

 ___
 To 

Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Cc2iscooL
Tell me about it. I've been running my community for just over a year now
and have had to deal with these issues a many times where a client thinks
that because they own the game that they somehow own the server they're
playing on. They're the most fun to ban, because they always make a ruckus
and usually end up making a fool of themselves. :D

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Timothy L Havener 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 You have to see it from the point of view from those of us who host
 servers.  We bust our asses trying to build a community and fun
 environment for people to play your games.  Some little kid with mommy
 issues complains about being kicked and kicks up a fuss and his opinion
 is considered valid enough to warrant restrictions being placed on us.
 Its a bit frustrating...

 You let them vent and you hear their voices...hear ours...please.


 Erik Johnson wrote:
  This is in the realm of a non constructive thread.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy L Havener
  Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:37 PM
  To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
  Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking
 
  It really frightens me that kids are growing up with this unrealistic
  belief that everything is supposed to be fair to the point they cannot
  take the rejection of being kicked from a game server.  Life isn't
  fair.  Pick yourself up and dust yourself off and just find another
 server
 
 
  Cc2iscooL wrote:
 
  Even though I consider voogru generally annoying... ;)
 
  He does have a point. You own the server, you own the rights to do
 whatever
  you want and enforce whatever rules you want. Period. If you don't like
 the
  way admins run their servers, start up a listen server and bitch to the
  people that join and then complain that the game is laggy. :)
 
  On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 
  Mob ftw.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
  Church
  Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:44 PM
  To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
  Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking
 
  I seriously don't want to argue the point more then I already did. It
  appears other server operators feel differently and the mob will rule
 on
  this one.
 
  Comparing a rented server to your house or nightclub is silly. Also,
  comparing kicking someone equaling murder is also silly.
 
  Decide what you want. I'm out of the L4D game.
 
  Timothy L Havener wrote:
 
 
  So Valve is going to go down that road and blacklist the IP of anyone
  who kicks someone unfairly?  Besides that is also only for ranked
  servers.  There are unranked servers that do not have those rules and
  you can do as you please.
 
  J T wrote:
 
 
  Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the
 game
 
 
  and
 
 
  not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked
 
 
  with
 
 
  your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.
 
  On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 
 
  Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
  statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for
 my
  friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should
 have
 
 
  no
 
 
  say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the
 time?
 
 
  If
 
 
  Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
  doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own
 servers.
  I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to
 play
  where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do
 this
  and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.
 
  Leonard L. Church wrote:
 
 
 
  I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and
 
 
  this
 
 
  appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.
 
  Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
 
 
 
 
  You can't be serious.
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard
 L.
 
 
 
  Church
 
 
 
  Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
  To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
  Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking
 
  Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public
 
 
  (and
 
 














































  you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out
 the
  window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things
 get
  voted on.
 
  I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just
 sit
  and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then
 
 
  wait
 
 
  for them to rejoin.
 
  Valve, please don't do this.
 
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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Dr.Stinglock
Has valve had any objections or word about what's going on over at the
sourcemod forums http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=65296 in
regards to getting l4d working with metamod:source and then sourcemod? 

As usual this should take care of most/all of these admin problems people
seem to be mentioning.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Johnson
Sent: Friday, 14 November 2008 8:44 AM
To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

This is in the realm of a non constructive thread.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy L Havener
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:37 PM
To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

It really frightens me that kids are growing up with this unrealistic
belief that everything is supposed to be fair to the point they cannot
take the rejection of being kicked from a game server.  Life isn't
fair.  Pick yourself up and dust yourself off and just find another server


Cc2iscooL wrote:
 Even though I consider voogru generally annoying... ;)

 He does have a point. You own the server, you own the rights to do
whatever
 you want and enforce whatever rules you want. Period. If you don't like
the
 way admins run their servers, start up a listen server and bitch to the
 people that join and then complain that the game is laggy. :)

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 Mob ftw.

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.
 Church
 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:44 PM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 I seriously don't want to argue the point more then I already did. It
 appears other server operators feel differently and the mob will rule on
 this one.

 Comparing a rented server to your house or nightclub is silly. Also,
 comparing kicking someone equaling murder is also silly.

 Decide what you want. I'm out of the L4D game.

 Timothy L Havener wrote:

 So Valve is going to go down that road and blacklist the IP of anyone
 who kicks someone unfairly?  Besides that is also only for ranked
 servers.  There are unranked servers that do not have those rules and
 you can do as you please.

 J T wrote:

 Battlefiedl 2 ROE was a means of allowing 10 year olds play the game

 and

 not get his feelings hurt. In essence, you couldn't do what you liked

 with

 your server if it conflicted with the ROE. Like pistol only servers.

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Timothy L Havener 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



 Why not argue the point?  If you are going to make such a ludicrous
 statement please back it up with logic.  So I pay for a server for my
 friends and I to play on or just for the heck of it and I should have

 no

 say as to what goes on? Who in their right mind would waste the time?

 If

 Valve wants to control the gaming experience so some ten year old
 doesn't get his feelings hurt then let them pay for their own servers.
 I am not going to pay for them to have a place for other people to
play
 where I have no say.  Everyone is afraid of the big bad admin.  Do
this
 and see how quickly you have no community and no where to play.

 Leonard L. Church wrote:


 I am serious Spencer. I know we don't agree on allot of things and

 this

 appears to be another one, so let's kindly not argue the point.

 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:



 You can't be serious.


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L.


 Church


 Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:40 AM
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

 Personally, I think that if you open up your server to the public

 (and

 you are by listing on the lobby server), then your rights go out the
 window as far as you never being kicked or choosing what things get
 voted on.

 I think this would be a step backwards as abusive admins can just
sit
 and wait for people to join up, grief them until they leave, then

 wait

 for them to rejoin.

 Valve, please don't do this.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Matt Lyons
Personally I see it as the guy who pays the bill makes the rules 
(Including who does, and doesn't get kicked).

The community will vote with their feet if admins are too draconian.

We've got some fairly strict rules on what you can and can't do on our 
public servers. We even have a bot that parses chat text and instant 
bans those that mention common cheat phrases and porn/shock sites.

Sure we get some criticism from the community but the majority love the 
fact that our servers are essentially tard free.

If you build it, they will come and all that :)

-- 
Matt Lyons (Bsc CS  Soft Eng)
Content Administrator, Internode Systems
150 Grenfell St, Adelaide SA 5000
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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Cc2iscooL
Internet tard free? No...it's certainly not possible. I've done my best
and yet still they come...and by they I mean the tards. :(

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Matt Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Personally I see it as the guy who pays the bill makes the rules
 (Including who does, and doesn't get kicked).

 The community will vote with their feet if admins are too draconian.

 We've got some fairly strict rules on what you can and can't do on our
 public servers. We even have a bot that parses chat text and instant
 bans those that mention common cheat phrases and porn/shock sites.

 Sure we get some criticism from the community but the majority love the
 fact that our servers are essentially tard free.

 If you build it, they will come and all that :)

 --
 Matt Lyons (Bsc CS  Soft Eng)
 Content Administrator, Internode Systems
 150 Grenfell St, Adelaide SA 5000
 Ph: (08) 8228 2877
 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 WWW: www.internode.com.au
 In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In
 practice, there is.

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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Morgan Humes
I couldn't agree more.


 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:43:34 -0800
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Re: [hlds] L4d vote kicking

2008-11-13 Thread Luke Lewis
As well as a lot of other posts over the years unfortunately. 

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[hlds] L4D Versus mode.

2008-11-13 Thread Kitteny Berk
Just to confirm, as I've seen conflicting information floating about, 
and not paid that much attention.

Is versus mode supported on all of the campaigns, or just a couple of them?

Cheers,
Berk

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Re: [hlds] L4D Versus mode.

2008-11-13 Thread Jake Skenna
only blood harvest and no mercy campaigns

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Kitteny Berk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Just to confirm, as I've seen conflicting information floating about,
 and not paid that much attention.

 Is versus mode supported on all of the campaigns, or just a couple of them?

 Cheers,
 Berk

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[hlds] hosts.txt clarification

2008-11-13 Thread Jonah Hirsch
Can someone clarify hosts.txt for me?

I've tied both:
1) URL of the banner
2) URL of web page containing only the banner

and both are just showing a white box. What am I doing wrong?

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Re: [hlds] hosts.txt clarification

2008-11-13 Thread Cc2iscooL
Sounds like you're doing it right to me...what image type are you using and
what's your HTML code?

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Jonah Hirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 Can someone clarify hosts.txt for me?

 I've tied both:
 1) URL of the banner
 2) URL of web page containing only the banner

 and both are just showing a white box. What am I doing wrong?

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Re: [hlds] hosts.txt clarification

2008-11-13 Thread Jonah Hirsch
Figured out the problem.
Kaspersky was blocking the image because it is called banner.png
I'll just whitelist the site. :P

Cc2iscooL wrote:
 Sounds like you're doing it right to me...what image type are you using and
 what's your HTML code?

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Jonah Hirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

   
 Can someone clarify hosts.txt for me?

 I've tied both:
 1) URL of the banner
 2) URL of web page containing only the banner

 and both are just showing a white box. What am I doing wrong?

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Re: [hlds] hosts.txt clarification

2008-11-13 Thread Cc2iscooL
Whoops. Might want to change that so other Kaspersky users don't have the
same problem, though.

:)

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Jonah Hirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 Figured out the problem.
 Kaspersky was blocking the image because it is called banner.png
 I'll just whitelist the site. :P

 Cc2iscooL wrote:
  Sounds like you're doing it right to me...what image type are you using
 and
  what's your HTML code?
 
  On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Jonah Hirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
 
  Can someone clarify hosts.txt for me?
 
  I've tied both:
  1) URL of the banner
  2) URL of web page containing only the banner
 
  and both are just showing a white box. What am I doing wrong?
 
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[hlds] HLDS L4D, 2 full versions?

2008-11-13 Thread L L
So I noticed when running -game list on the hlds tool, obviously it lists
the demo. But now I see that there is a l4d_full and also left4dead as
well.

Anyone know what the difference is?

In the mean time I guess I'll download it to a different directory and
compare.
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Re: [hlds] HLDS L4D, 2 full versions?

2008-11-13 Thread J T
Checking bootstrapper version ...
** 'game' options for Source DS Install:

Counter-Strike Source
ageofchivalry
diprip
dods
garrysmod
hl2mp
insurgency
l4d_demo
left4dead
synergy
tf
zps

Interesting.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/l4d] steam -command update -game left4dead -dir server2
Checking bootstrapper version ...
Updating Installation
No installation record found at server2/l4d_demo
No installation record found at server2
Checking/Installing 'left4dead demo base' version 6

0.05%   server2/l4d_demo\bin\adminserver.dll
0.06%   server2/l4d_demo\bin\binkw32.dll
0.07%   server2/l4d_demo\bin\bugreporter.dll
0.08%   server2/l4d_demo\bin\bugreporter_public.dll
0.10%   server2/l4d_demo\bin\datacache.dll
0.14%   server2/l4d_demo\bin\datacache_i486.so
0.20%   server2/l4d_demo\bin\dedicated.dll

Looks like its the full version.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:22 PM, L L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 So I noticed when running -game list on the hlds tool, obviously it lists
 the demo. But now I see that there is a l4d_full and also left4dead as
 well.

 Anyone know what the difference is?

 In the mean time I guess I'll download it to a different directory and
 compare.
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Re: [hlds] hosts.txt clarification

2008-11-13 Thread Jonah Hirsch
Yeah, I ended up just renaming the file. :P

Cc2iscooL wrote:
 Whoops. Might want to change that so other Kaspersky users don't have the
 same problem, though.

 :)

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Jonah Hirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

   
 Figured out the problem.
 Kaspersky was blocking the image because it is called banner.png
 I'll just whitelist the site. :P

 Cc2iscooL wrote:
 
 Sounds like you're doing it right to me...what image type are you using
   
 and
 
 what's your HTML code?

 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Jonah Hirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:


   
 Can someone clarify hosts.txt for me?

 I've tied both:
 1) URL of the banner
 2) URL of web page containing only the banner

 and both are just showing a white box. What am I doing wrong?

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Re: [hlds] HLDS L4D, 2 full versions?

2008-11-13 Thread Jonah Hirsch
I do not see l4d_full

Checking bootstrapper version ...
** 'game' options for Source DS Install:

Counter-Strike Source
ageofchivalry
diprip
dods
garrysmod
hl2mp
insurgency
l4d_demo
left4dead
synergy
tf
zps

L L wrote:
 So I noticed when running -game list on the hlds tool, obviously it lists
 the demo. But now I see that there is a l4d_full and also left4dead as
 well.

 Anyone know what the difference is?

 In the mean time I guess I'll download it to a different directory and
 compare.
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Re: [hlds] HLDS L4D, 2 full versions?

2008-11-13 Thread Jonah Hirsch
Hm... l4d_full isn't in the list, but it installs. I guess that's the 
full one.

L L wrote:
 So I noticed when running -game list on the hlds tool, obviously it lists
 the demo. But now I see that there is a l4d_full and also left4dead as
 well.

 Anyone know what the difference is?

 In the mean time I guess I'll download it to a different directory and
 compare.
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Re: [hlds] HLDS L4D, 2 full versions?

2008-11-13 Thread L L
Guess they took l4d_full out, I saw it earlier and installed it.

But the left4dead is just a demo, wonder whats different... oh well.
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