Please describe your suggestion or bug report Something that might be useful for any times when no admins are available to deal with players causing problems (at least on the tf2 all trade servers) would be to give donators acess to some kind of vote command to allow the server to be alot cleaner, whether it be dealing with disrespectful players, spammers, epxploiters and whatever other categories there are. Obviously there should be some limitations as to how the command can be used to avoid abuse of the commands. Examples of these limitations could be something like the command can only be used when x amount of donators are currently on the server. The functionality should give the majority of powers to the donators (as it's more than likely the donators on the server are trusted community memebers, but obviously anyone can donate and this is why my above limitation suggestion is in place), so for example something like donators votes have 3 times as much an effect or some similar kind of rule (adjusted to what amount makes most sense). While the specifics of how it would work would need to be decided upon by the senior staff members, i feel some system like this could help keep the server running as smooth as possible for those times when there are no admins that can come on, as well as it might help the admins along every once in a while.
This seems like an interesting suggestion. This may work in practice, but execution of it has too many X factors (would we allow lifetime donors to have such permissions? what kind of voting 'powers' would we allow donors? any other commands?) We might come up with something like this,
This is what I was hoping for. Yes there are alot of different X factors as you put it to figure out, but I don't think it will be too difficult to agree on something initially. Also it could easily be the case where the balance of the X factors might be off for some reason in practice but they can easily be adjusted as we figure out what works and what doesn't.
After thinking this over a bit, it's a good concept, but has a great potential to be abused. Users and donators are the lifeblood of our community, and we appreciate that. Some show their dedication by donating to us, and are given a handful of perks they can play around with. With this suggestion, you have to ask yourself all these questions before actually implementing something like this, because if this were to be added, it would be a big change, and not in a good way, too. Everyone would be scrambling to donate not because they support the server, because they want to feel powerful on the server and have a voting system to get rid of anyone they don't like. If in a perfect world there was no abuse from donators (if this were to be added), then it would work out fine, but the cons very much outweight any pros to this. It won't be implemented.