over 4 years ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

Originally posted by foxhawk89

It started off by telling him he cant visit me now because dad said so. Aka Trump banned travel from Germany to America for 30 days. He starts ranting how he's a horrible person. So I told him I'm a registered Democrat, but he's not half bad since he got us out of the wars. He didn't like my oppinon and wanted me to hate him with all my American might. Then the conversation went onto global warming. And I stated that the melting of the ice was releasing methane to a point we're screwed, he didn't like that and said he wrote papers stating it wasn't true. Then I told him that advances in technology will soon make oil obsolete, oh he definitely didn't like that either. Then guys getting off for the night, being 1030pm est, he wanted to blame on our conversation...

I feel ashamed for my fellow countryman, please take my apology for the whole of Germany.

(Though i may halfway agree about trump, i don't think he is a horrible person, just a clown that makes us laugh.)

over 4 years ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

Depends totally on if the server has any rules published. (Even if it's "you can't disagree with the admin" - then you know from the beginning, what you are into) I know the issue from the other side of the table, a lot of players insist on everything being admin abuse that they don't like. Hence i've years ago started writing my server rules in professional law manner, stating punishments for each violation and link people to there. I'll judge them like any judge in real life and remind them of if they would talk to a local court judge like that after he was convicted. They get the right to appeal as well, just as irl. But debating decisions in the game is a simple no-go, you wouldnt do that in the court room either if you are at least a somewhat sane person.

In general i strongly believe that the normal admin invests a hell lot of time and money into their servers and has the right to set the rules for the servers. (And we actually actively encourage that, because the best server out there were made by admin concepts) And as long as they are published and admin is acting according to them, it's not abuse. Both sides need to improve here in general, not refering to that picture in specific.