MikeSheen said:
You - or anyone else - are not entitled to play on my server. You are permitted to play by myself and my staff. It is a privilege - not a right. You can have a difference of opinion, or a complaint - but once you start introducing vitriol and attitude to your comments it erodes the credibility and weight of your comments, and I stop reading and start banning.
Jeez, as long time admin of various game servers and networks, i can only say: Get that thinking out of your head quickly.
Without players, your server is nothing but an empty place where you and your few buddies might play on. And that way of thinking youve demonstrated with that post, "permitted to play", is one of the fastest ways possible to alienate any good playerbase, as you essentially just told them that you dont care about them at all.
Secondly, work on your social skills and own attitude, thats a very important thing for any staff member that interacts with players. In subjects like this, small cases of bad temper might occur, as out of those players view the follwing is the case:
1: One of their friends has been banned without solid proof.
2: Their faction gets harrased.
3: Youve just told them that you dont care about them.
4: Youre defending a possibly corrupt staff member.
So to be frank, they have a reason to be pissed, and that might reflect in the way they speak about those topics. So a one week ban for someone who is simply listing their experience and thought, as well as saying that they are sick of the way your staff has been treating them... well keep that up, and Kim Jong-un might ask you for private lessons on dictatorship.