I'm not power hungry, I run a very populated server (TWL Rallycross) that is full nearly every night, yet I always have the guys who will either, veer completely left or right off the start and mess the pack up, the ones that take the turn too fast and use other cars to pretty much stop them before they go into a wall, OR of course the guys that know the lines in the track and they will sit there and wait for a pack of cars to come and the madness unfolds, am I being unfair by banning them immediately for a week or should I reason with them? Just last night I called a guy out for clipping my rear panel on a straight away and he quickly denied it, and the next race he did the same thing and it just went back and forth, then he was proud that the next race he actually didn't race dirty, then he went back to his old ways...what does the general public expect an admin to do? Also, I usually always wait until the end of the race to kick or ban someone for something, I don't see the public really understanding that although they may have gotten wrecked, that some of us may not have gotten taken out of the race, and would like to finish, before dealing with the idiots, do people look down on that?

I think you are doing the correct thing.

If they are waiting in the racing line for a pack to come around to wreck them, "/ban USERNAME 999" is the ONLY choice. Simply put, those idiots don't warrant your time if you are putting an effort forth to provide a good place for LFS racers to compete, whether it is demo or S2.

If a guy is simply only wrecking one person in the heat of competition, warn them first. If they continue, kick them. If they come back and do it again, or argue, ban them. It's your server. Be fair, but be more fair to the people that don't cause trouble. They will thank you for it.

"GTTurbo" - don't you have a better account to be on...?

The people who take the time, effort and cost to run a server for the community have the right to decide how it's run. How it's run will determine the type of racer attracted to it.

We at dMr have a near zero tolerance of idiots. We're lucky that we have enough admins to allow one of us to spec a race if necessary. Idiots, wreckers and the plain wreckless get banned. We feel we need to do this so that the vast majority of racers who visit us get the best possible racing experience we can offer. In turn, we hope that those good racers become regulars.

If the person banned is mature enough to take up the issue with us on our forum then we can deal with it like adults. Everybody deserves a second chance but it is not automatically given.

I'm not telling you how to run your server but you might want to consider appointing trusted people as admins and then draw up a set of guidelines for them to follow. Banning the idiots as they're detected will demonstrate to your visitors that the server is run to strict standards and that the consideration of good clean racers is the driving force behind those banning decisions.

Good luck.

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"GTTurbo" - don't you have a better account to be on...?

Yesh, but I was at my brother's house, and I'm more security-conscious than to log in on my moderator account away from home.

Not that my brother knows any more than "that game he constantly plays that drowns out the TV", but that's not the point

Thanks for the responses guys, just sucks having to put up with these guys, can't we just race and have fun?