10-12-2016, 10:37 PM
Hi G4NG$T3R,
I'd like to add some colour to this as well.
It's unfortunate that your nickname is very similar of that of another Las Venturas Playground player. I've observed that you're not alone in this— we've got [BB]Diablo and Diabl0, and just today there was an issue between RTFM and rtfm.
Whether or not to kick for this this is a delicate question. To focus on your situation, G4NG5TER chose a distinguished colour. In some sessions you may, by pure chance, get assigned the same colour. At that point it becomes *very* difficult to see the difference: I honestly never considered whether the nickname uses a "5" or a "$".
This creates for a situation that's prone to misunderstandings. Suppose that G4NG5TER uses a cheat. Administrators may, by mistake, miss the difference in your nickname and ban you by accident. Suppose that G4NG5TER declared war on other players. You may get people aggressively chasing you whilst being completely ignorant about the cause.
When conflict does happen as a consequence of such misunderstandings, what would we, as a community do?
To be fair, I don't know. My gut feel is to listen to both parties, but intuitively I think I'd err to the player that has been around for longer. Not fair, I agree, but we can't mediate on every issue.
Since G4NG5TER uses another nickname too, you could consider reaching out to him and asking how much he cares about the name. Perhaps we can all show a little bit of kindness and resolve this amongst ourselves
.
Thanks,
Russell
I'd like to add some colour to this as well.
It's unfortunate that your nickname is very similar of that of another Las Venturas Playground player. I've observed that you're not alone in this— we've got [BB]Diablo and Diabl0, and just today there was an issue between RTFM and rtfm.
Whether or not to kick for this this is a delicate question. To focus on your situation, G4NG5TER chose a distinguished colour. In some sessions you may, by pure chance, get assigned the same colour. At that point it becomes *very* difficult to see the difference: I honestly never considered whether the nickname uses a "5" or a "$".
This creates for a situation that's prone to misunderstandings. Suppose that G4NG5TER uses a cheat. Administrators may, by mistake, miss the difference in your nickname and ban you by accident. Suppose that G4NG5TER declared war on other players. You may get people aggressively chasing you whilst being completely ignorant about the cause.
When conflict does happen as a consequence of such misunderstandings, what would we, as a community do?
To be fair, I don't know. My gut feel is to listen to both parties, but intuitively I think I'd err to the player that has been around for longer. Not fair, I agree, but we can't mediate on every issue.
Since G4NG5TER uses another nickname too, you could consider reaching out to him and asking how much he cares about the name. Perhaps we can all show a little bit of kindness and resolve this amongst ourselves
.Thanks,
Russell