Its not easy being an admin - Garry's Mod

Having children harass and abuse one another especially an admin when they have the chance What has your experience been whilst hosting a server?

Guy in global chat says: HALP, RDMER ON TTT *joins* Sees that an admin was already on the TTT for about a few hours. -....-

1. People who think they're right in any circumstance and if they break rules, you are the asshole for enforcing punishment. 2. People who don't read the rules and then whine and act as if it's not their fault when they're punished. 3. People who cannot simply say 'I fucked up' and go to extreme lengths to blame something else, i.e calling the damagelogs wrong. 4. People who ask a question, don't listen to your answer and then ask the exact same question again. 6. People who think admins are there to suit personal needs and demand you permaban someone for coughing. 7. People who are lazy and want everything personally handled to them. 8. People who don't take anyone else into consideration and think the game revolves entirely around them. i.e 90% of TTT players

[QUOTE=NiandraLades;44744755]i.e the Rust subforum[/QUOTE] Ahem. Don't mind me.

If you think being an admin is hard then you're just inexperienced:-/ if they break a rule warn them, break it again then slay, break it again then ban. If they do any douchebaggy things like what NiandraLades said then they are clearly shitty players and don't belong on your server. In the end they would end up ruining the game for people who actually wanna play, so I just kick them. They usually don't come back.

Usually when I get on I have to micro manage my staff. If anyone trolls or anything like that then I'll know they are because, I mean, who has the proof of what they actually did? (I do) Running TTT is annoying because what NiandraLades says is true. Though it becomes easy after dealing with it for a certain amount of time. After that you can just ban, slay, or kick with a rhythm. Also I get told that I wrongfully slayed them for RDM. Show them the logs and boom, you're golden. Then you can slay, kick, or ban. (Whatever your rules are.)

Fuck serious roleplayers, entitled shitlords

The one thing i hate about being an admin is that your always the bad guy in the eyes of the person you punish. Another thing is when idiots know the rule, but they continue to bend them just to piss the admin off

[QUOTE=YourStalker;44745490]If you think being an admin is hard then you're just inexperienced:-/ if they break a rule warn them, break it again then slay, break it again then ban. If they do any douchebaggy things like what NiandraLades said then they are clearly shitty players and don't belong on your server. In the end they would end up ruining the game for people who actually wanna play, so I just kick them. They usually don't come back.[/QUOTE] It's not as much "hard" as it is incredibly stressful sometimes. Sometimes I will be the only admin on a server because the server is too full for anyone to come to assist me, and all but maybe 2 of all the other players are stupid people, trolls or crying children all causing trouble at once. At times... it's like babysitting a small classroom full of mid-functioning autistic children. By yourself. And no one can get along. [I]At all.[/I] If it were my server I'd deal with it quicker in my own way e.g. just kicking all of them without a warning but alas I don't have a server (for a very good reason as you can see) so I have to closely abide by the owner's rules, which are usually 3 warnings, and then kick or ban depending on the offense. So with those set as admin guidelines, it does get stressful. Even the usual warn kick ban is stressful.

People telling straight up lies. *checks logs*

[QUOTE=YourStalker;44745490]If you think being an admin is hard then you're just inexperienced:-/ if they break a rule warn them, break it again then slay, break it again then ban. If they do any douchebaggy things like what NiandraLades said then they are clearly shitty players and don't belong on your server. In the end they would end up ruining the game for people who actually wanna play, so I just kick them. They usually don't come back.[/QUOTE] I use to host 3 or 4 DayZ servers some of the biggest in Australia and a minecraft server the only thing i had to deal with it Hackers But true

All my experiences as an admin can be summed up with that I never enforced ridiculous rules, so I usually avoided drama at all cost.

[QUOTE=XLawlessBaronX;44744651]Having children harass and abuse one another especially an admin when they have the chance What has your experience been whilst hosting a server?[/QUOTE] Grow some balls and keep your server professional.

[QUOTE=Rammelslakje;44752908]Grow some balls and keep your server professional.[/QUOTE] I ban people for breaking rules and not obeying by what is told my servers are kept professional.

[QUOTE=Rammelslakje;44752908]Grow some balls and keep your server professional.[/QUOTE] Keeping a server professional is damn near impossible with the majority of the game's playerbase. Besides, how is "growing some balls and keeping your server professional" help against idiots breaking rules when you're already punishing for it? Is he not allowed to vent sometimes?

[QUOTE=Rammelslakje;44752908]Grow some balls and keep your server professional.[/QUOTE] Obviously you can do this, but remember that you have little to no influence about the players who join your server.

Well, if you are the owner and everything is setup correctly, including the rules and other staff members it's less of a pain in the ass than being a player I guess. Unless you aren't so good in holding up your rules :P

I hate when a group of friends joins and they start ghosting or RDMing as a team. It's kinda funny though aswell. When you start banning their first friend they all start calling admin abuse on you and say that the server is gonna die if you [QUOTE]"ban the hole srever u abusing scrub"[/QUOTE] -Permanently banned retard

I love the kids who say they're going to report the server to Garry/Valve for being warned/kicked/banned.

[QUOTE=Rammelslakje;44752908]Grow some balls and keep your server professional.[/QUOTE] Couldn't agree with you more. If they're being a cunt ban them. They're not gonna stop just because you said so.

Once made a MOTD for my server that you needed to accept the rules and answer 2 rules right and you had 2 attempts to answer right (people just skipping the rules will atleast see 2 rules or just get banned for 24 hours (YEP) ) A guy said he haven't read the rule he was breaking even though it was 1 of the 2 rules that you had to answer right.... fuck pewdiepie fuck seananners fuck youtube <3 NiandraLades

Toxic players, admin asslickers, the guy that never can take critism, the problematic kiddo, and all the pre-pubertal 13 years olds. i can't stand any of them to be honest.

Here's one: [QUOTE]just saying you are being a real dick. i havnt done anything exept paying money to play prop hunt again and you ban me because you think i try to escape the ban[/QUOTE] Apparently, buying Garry's mod entitles you to play on any server.

Being an Admin is easy m8. If some guy is being annoying you ban him permenantally. If the guy is a regular you kick, if he repeats his offense you ban permenantally.

[QUOTE=rbreslow;44765617]Being an Admin is easy m8. If some guy is being annoying you ban him permenantally. If the guy is a regular you kick, if he repeats his offense you ban permenantally.[/QUOTE] It doesn't matter who they are. Everyone gets the same punishment (on my server at least). Even I punish myself for breaking my own rules. (I've banned myself for RDMing)

"It wasn't rdm cuz it was with a crowbar"

"it wasnt rdm cuz he was a traitor!" I get this all the fucking time and it really annoys me

"My account got hacked" "My brother was playing on my computer" I've seen those excuses way too many times. I hate that shit. If people say that they just never getting unbanned. If they own up to it, and admit they fucked up, I'll usually be happy to unban them.

I manage a TTT-Server with a few changes around the traitors. If they screw up a few things, they will be revealed by the server to everyone. Each time new players come online, they don't know of that obviously, so I point out in csay-chat that all new players should read the !motd, but for some reason 90% of those people are not able to read or open the motd. That's when they are frustrated and start to RDM (You know the end ...).

'not RDM because he was traitor' 'HE WAS A FUCKING TRAITOR WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU SLAYING ME???' You get the point. Oh, and I'm admin on a server that doesn't count pushing people off and goomba stomping as RDM. '<guy's name> PUSHED ME OFF BAN HIM' And so on..