JusticeGoat - Commander Boyer - Blatant Abuse of Admin Powers
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:36 pm
When and where this incident occured (Game Server, forums, Discord): /tg/station 13 Sibyl #1
Byond account and character name OR Discord name: Capax/Commander Boyer
Admin: JusticeGoat
ROUND ID HERE IF APPLICABLE: 114722
Detailed summary: First and foremost, I don't intend to download the logs onto my computer, so don't expect to see any excerpts in this forum post. If you want to see first-hand what happened during the round, then you can delve into the logs yourself: the round ID is right there. Anyway, the round is question proceeded as follows:
After dying on-station because some shitlord didn't like a little joking around with handcuffs, I was delegated to the role of GHOST. I don't really mind this, however, because I can read autists like Bill Nyaswell sperg out in deadchat, but things were getting kind of boring, and I was getting ready to close the game. It was around the time that I started nodding off that I saw a notification for an open slot as an ERT commander or whatever, so I said to myself, "sure, whatever, I'll just hop in and dick around for a bit, then off myself and log out. No biggie." And that's about what I did. I spawned in, the CentComm Official Naomi (?) gave me my directives, and as we took off in the shuttle, I shoved her out of the airlock. No big deal. It's an admin, they can clearly survive this, and even if they died as a result of it, it wouldn't be a huge deal, since their role in the round is to basically sit in the briefing room on CentComm and give the ERT their orders. So, yeah, I did it, and didn't think it was even remotely a huge deal. Boy, was I wrong!
After dawdling around on the station for a few minutes, I wandered onto the Bridge, and saw a person in a mis-match of heads of staff gear and salvaged weaponry, so I decided to stun them and conduct a short investigation; nothing but a little bit of harmless RP, they seemed to be a good sport, and there was another player present who was playing along, too-- maybe it could've led to something-- but, alas, JusticeGoat, who played the aforementioned Naomi (?), was not having it! Enabling player interaction and investment was NOT in JusticeGoat's agenda for this round, and so it would be the case that JG would SPAWN another ERT member tasked with the sole directive of apprehending me and returning me to CentComm. The agent caught me by surprise and succeeded in their goal, and JG's character (you know... the one I previously KILLED?) executed me.
NOW. The issue with this. What is it? Well, the answer lies within the banter shared between players in deadchat shortly after my death. I was, obviously, upset at this, because it was clear to me that JG was blatantly abusing their admin powers (surviving the spacing in a moving shuttle), and then enacting justice through another player as a cover-up for their antics; because, you know, it would be OBVIOUS if they had've just come after me themselves, right? But it's OK when they spawn someone else to do their dirty work, right?!
It really goes without saying, if you ask me: an admin should not be allowed to use their powers to directly affect another player's round, unless such actions are agreed upon by the admins and the playerbase. It's especially shady that JG sought to punish me in-game by employing another player, since they clearly figured it would've been a little TOO on-the-nose if they had've just come after me with their own character. Shady, shady.
It should also be noted that JG acknowledged that ERT is a meme-role in deadchat, which just contradicts all of their actions for this round.
It should also ALSO be noted that I was BANNED for this by Shaps(?), which is just fucked, but is not the main topic of discussion, nor do I really care.
That is all.
Byond account and character name OR Discord name: Capax/Commander Boyer
Admin: JusticeGoat
ROUND ID HERE IF APPLICABLE: 114722
Detailed summary: First and foremost, I don't intend to download the logs onto my computer, so don't expect to see any excerpts in this forum post. If you want to see first-hand what happened during the round, then you can delve into the logs yourself: the round ID is right there. Anyway, the round is question proceeded as follows:
After dying on-station because some shitlord didn't like a little joking around with handcuffs, I was delegated to the role of GHOST. I don't really mind this, however, because I can read autists like Bill Nyaswell sperg out in deadchat, but things were getting kind of boring, and I was getting ready to close the game. It was around the time that I started nodding off that I saw a notification for an open slot as an ERT commander or whatever, so I said to myself, "sure, whatever, I'll just hop in and dick around for a bit, then off myself and log out. No biggie." And that's about what I did. I spawned in, the CentComm Official Naomi (?) gave me my directives, and as we took off in the shuttle, I shoved her out of the airlock. No big deal. It's an admin, they can clearly survive this, and even if they died as a result of it, it wouldn't be a huge deal, since their role in the round is to basically sit in the briefing room on CentComm and give the ERT their orders. So, yeah, I did it, and didn't think it was even remotely a huge deal. Boy, was I wrong!
After dawdling around on the station for a few minutes, I wandered onto the Bridge, and saw a person in a mis-match of heads of staff gear and salvaged weaponry, so I decided to stun them and conduct a short investigation; nothing but a little bit of harmless RP, they seemed to be a good sport, and there was another player present who was playing along, too-- maybe it could've led to something-- but, alas, JusticeGoat, who played the aforementioned Naomi (?), was not having it! Enabling player interaction and investment was NOT in JusticeGoat's agenda for this round, and so it would be the case that JG would SPAWN another ERT member tasked with the sole directive of apprehending me and returning me to CentComm. The agent caught me by surprise and succeeded in their goal, and JG's character (you know... the one I previously KILLED?) executed me.
NOW. The issue with this. What is it? Well, the answer lies within the banter shared between players in deadchat shortly after my death. I was, obviously, upset at this, because it was clear to me that JG was blatantly abusing their admin powers (surviving the spacing in a moving shuttle), and then enacting justice through another player as a cover-up for their antics; because, you know, it would be OBVIOUS if they had've just come after me themselves, right? But it's OK when they spawn someone else to do their dirty work, right?!
It really goes without saying, if you ask me: an admin should not be allowed to use their powers to directly affect another player's round, unless such actions are agreed upon by the admins and the playerbase. It's especially shady that JG sought to punish me in-game by employing another player, since they clearly figured it would've been a little TOO on-the-nose if they had've just come after me with their own character. Shady, shady.
It should also be noted that JG acknowledged that ERT is a meme-role in deadchat, which just contradicts all of their actions for this round.
It should also ALSO be noted that I was BANNED for this by Shaps(?), which is just fucked, but is not the main topic of discussion, nor do I really care.
That is all.