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Originally Posted by Trumpcard
I respectively disgree, I feel it is the duty of the admins of the eqemu nexus to protect the community from people like this.. Server owners themselves might not visit the forums for weeks, while nefarious forces are rampaging across their servers... Whose to say they will ever even see the note?
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Who's to say that the admin in question would necessarily have views in line with the "nexus" and not the poster? I have mentioned before that I think that server owners should be given as much power as posible in governing their servers - this case is no exception. Since booting this person probably isn't an effective proactive security measure, I think your motivation in this case is purely punitive. That being the case, the most punsishing action is probably to release as much information about the person as possibile. Server OPs who actually care can ban by ip. Server ops who don't can harass the player. Schoolmates can throw rocks. Whatever.
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As far as 10 pointless posters, thats like saying its pointless to elect a president on the votes of 100 million worthless rednecks.
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That would be 100% true if you're not one of the 100 million rednecks. I try to respect everyone's opinion, but that isn't to say that I think everyone deserves equal say in all matters. Quite the contrary - I believe that when it comes to server admin issues the server admin should maintain absolute sovereignty. This would certainly be a much hotter topic if not all of the popular servers belonged to devs.
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I'll up the ante then, say 20 'yeas' . would that encompass enough that some 'worthwhile posters' might be included ?
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If I ran a server, I would want to be the only one able to decide whether or not this person could play on my server. To suggest that a vote of twenty nameless others should override my decisions as they relate to my own hardware and bandwidth would be like slapping my face. That isn't to say that I would not appreciate public opinion. However, the buck should ultimately stop with the person running the server. I don't see any way to argue otherwise.