I spent some time playing CoD4 multiplayer on a single server, one of three for a particular clan. It seemed cool at first, the players there were pretty decent, gave me a good challenge, and I rose in rank. Then one fine day, in the middle of a match where I'm doing okay (about 25-18), I'm booted from the server and summarily banned without a word from anyone. I decide to go to the server's forums and put up a post asking why. Not that I care too much about being banned from one server when there's literally ten thousand more on my list, but I was curious as to why it had happened. The post is taken down after a short exchange of which server it was and who was adminning at the time, and I find that I can go onto the server again. (I was never told just what it is I did to earn the ban in the first place.)
From that day on, one of the admins (I'm guessing it was a junior admin, since he didn't seem to have too much power) would accuse me of hacking whenever I killed him. Didn't matter if I shot him in the back as he ran past me in an alleyway or shot him in the chest as he rushed towards a doorway I was defending- it was obviously only due to hacks that I could ever manage to best him. I was far from the only one, though- anyone who managed more than two or three kills on him was immediately accused, and though this one admin didn't seem to have the power to ban or kick people outright, he didn't have any trouble calling in other admins who would apply the boot without so much as a word. Even those who spoke up in defense of anyone accused were threatened with banning for "talking back to admins".
I really had my fill of the place, though, when this very same junior admin was called out by other players for abusing a game glitch. Not only did he admit it, he insisted that his clan supported using glitches- and two others in the clan present on the server confirmed it. Hypocrisy has always been a bit of a big red button when it comes to pissing me off, and boy did that event ever slam down both fists on it.
I don't play on that server anymore, and I don't miss it.
From that day on, one of the admins (I'm guessing it was a junior admin, since he didn't seem to have too much power) would accuse me of hacking whenever I killed him. Didn't matter if I shot him in the back as he ran past me in an alleyway or shot him in the chest as he rushed towards a doorway I was defending- it was obviously only due to hacks that I could ever manage to best him. I was far from the only one, though- anyone who managed more than two or three kills on him was immediately accused, and though this one admin didn't seem to have the power to ban or kick people outright, he didn't have any trouble calling in other admins who would apply the boot without so much as a word. Even those who spoke up in defense of anyone accused were threatened with banning for "talking back to admins".
I really had my fill of the place, though, when this very same junior admin was called out by other players for abusing a game glitch. Not only did he admit it, he insisted that his clan supported using glitches- and two others in the clan present on the server confirmed it. Hypocrisy has always been a bit of a big red button when it comes to pissing me off, and boy did that event ever slam down both fists on it.
I don't play on that server anymore, and I don't miss it.