where to report admin abuse?

[Kyd Quzine]

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[dan]

Steam admin or server admin? Server admin owns and maintains server which you play on for free.

[OVKHuman]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von dan:

Steam admin or server admin? Server admin owns and maintains server which you play on for free.

Not necessarily own but you will have to report them individually to the clan or community they are a part of

[dan]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Aegmar:

Since most server owners have an interest in keeping a good reputation, you might of course write here about the incident, but most times i see ppl complaining about "admin abuse" they were rightly kicked or banned for disruptive behaviour...

Exactly

[Smugsie]

Admins usually don't mind an individual player unless they were
a) Using all chat as their personal chat room (server specific, some don't care)
b) Teamkilling
c) Griefing assets
d) 1 manning vehicles (server specific)
e) Mic spamming
f) Rushing the enemy's first cap (server specific, typically on noob friendly servers)
g) Not having a mic/officer kit as an SL

Otherwise admin abuse? Never heard of it, admins don't even kick/ban if you talk back to them when they're squad leading.

[EnglishBob]

what server are you talking about?

[Kyd Quzine]

I don’t want to throw anyone under any buses publicly yet. I’m trying to get things resolved in the clans discord. I’ll follow up with what happens.

[Kyd Quzine]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Smugsie:

Admins usually don't mind an individual player unless they were
a) Using all chat as their personal chat room (server specific, some don't care)
b) Teamkilling
c) Griefing assets
d) 1 manning vehicles (server specific)
e) Mic spamming
f) Rushing the enemy's first cap (server specific, typically on noob friendly servers)
g) Not having a mic/officer kit as an SL

Otherwise admin abuse? Never heard of it, admins don't even kick/ban if you talk back to them when they're squad leading.

u must be in European servers lol

[Sea Base]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von LUIGIFACESLASH:

If you complain in steam they delete the comment.

Didn't help one mod who got kicked from his original clan due to the amount of people avoiding their server after post after post complained about the induviduals toxic behaviour.

OP you best bet is just to avoid that server and tell your friends to do the same. If the admin really is abusive, people will just stop going to their server. Groups/clans tend to notice that.

[Smugsie]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dakota:

I am personally unsure at this time as to where you should go to report abuse by server owners and admins, but if you get proof of abuse feel free to contact me about it and I could talk around to see if there's something that can be done. I would recommend first trying to talk to the server owner before you do so however.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kyd Quzine:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Smugsie:

Admins usually don't mind an individual player unless they were
a) Using all chat as their personal chat room (server specific, some don't care)
b) Teamkilling
c) Griefing assets
d) 1 manning vehicles (server specific)
e) Mic spamming
f) Rushing the enemy's first cap (server specific, typically on noob friendly servers)
g) Not having a mic/officer kit as an SL

Otherwise admin abuse? Never heard of it, admins don't even kick/ban if you talk back to them when they're squad leading.

u must be in European servers lol

I play on North American servers. TBG, |56| Canadian, West Coast Tactical, 2FJG, Bella's Battleground, TacticalGamer, The Playground, TGS Baked Goods, and Thunderdome. All of which are great servers, I squad lead as often as I can when I'm feeling it and often get commended by server members and admins for doing a decent/good job on squad leading. Anyways I hope you get your issue resolved, or I at least hope it's an issue sweeped under the rug.

[Caliell]

Admins in Squad tend to be pretty decent people. I had an incident once with one of the prominent community admins (not going to say which one due to the fact that the situation was resolved, the head admin did really good job in investigation), where I was permanently banned and then restored, then banned again and then restored. What happened, is I was playing Insurgent medic on Logar Valley map on Assault Mode and managed to sneak behind enemy force (british) and began to plink at them with impunity. Brit players just kept running in front of me and lining up to fire on the first point they was supposed to capture, without even looking back. I spent about 10 to 15 minutes shooting at them, until suddenly I got very surprising message "You've been banned from the server. Reason: Aimbot). I was like WTF? I played this game forever, never cheated, never wanted to cheat and most of all was applying to join that community. Like why would someone be cheating, when being the prospect for that community? That would be the most asinine way to gain membership.

Needless to say, I went on Discord and talked to the first admin. He investigated, the incident and found no wrongdoing. The next morning I got the message from him "I am sorry, but my decision got overruled and other admins thought otherwise."

So I sent the message again to another admin and the head admin of the community personally investigated the entire report and even made the video to other admins about it.

It turned out I wasn't cheating, but what happened is Squad on lower settings removed some bushes and grass from the area, where several enemy players I shot at, on higher settings would of not been seen. - I wasn't cheating, but merely was playing on lower settings due to my potato computer. To gain good enough FPS to play without constant stutter and lag, I lowered my settings without knowing about the whole issue. The admin personally played around with the game settings and made the video, then posted it on community's Discord and explained the situation.

After that situation, I wrote an article about it on Squad forums how lower settings give visual advantages, mentioning the incident. Also finally managed to upgrade my computer guts with the new CPU and GPU and ramped up my settings, with the incident never happening again.


Why am I telling this? Is to show that the vast majority of server admins in Squad are pretty good people if you are patient and willing to work with them. Also that admins can be wrong at times, but if you got good ones they might not be doing it because they are abusive.

[Kyd Quzine]

so far no response

[spezi]

Here: http://forums.joinsquad.com/forum/241-report-server-admin-abuse/
(log in first)

[Avicii]

Unarmed Teamplay Server Those Admins Abuses 2023 As Soon as I was warned I was instantly kicked instantly for attitude !! Then Banned from Discord Server As we’ll

[Serano E'Stabant]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von dan:

Steam admin or server admin? Server admin owns and maintains server which you play on for free.

Yes, but in order to host a server in Squad, an admin/server owner needs a license from Offworld Industries.

In orded to obtain this license, the future server owner needs to agree to a Terms and also to follow the Community Guidelines.

If the server owner does not follow the Community Guidelines, his license can be revoked by OWI, and thus he can lose the server.