Archived Suggestion: Updated Rules

Please name your Suggestion/Bug Report:
Updated Rules

Is this a suggestion or bug report?:
Suggestion

What does this report affect?:
All-Trade 2 Server

Please elaborate on your suggestion:
Being on the server for quite a while now, actually more than a year, I have seen various people come in and out of the servers. Assholes, rich people, regulars, and good traders. The rules themselves have not changed much within the past year, if I´m not wrong, and as of the now, the current rules are:

NO Private backpacks or Profiles.
NO Posting Links of any kind.
NO Being disrespectful.
BE Respectful to others when they are speaking. (One at a time on the mic).
ALWAYS listen to admins/moderators
NO Vulgar/Nude sprays
NO Spamming of the mic or the chat.
NO Racism at all
ONLY English is allowed on mic and in chat.
NO Trading of CD keys/Codes and No Game Trading for Cash
NO Misrepresenting your trades. (Saying it's 1 of 1 when it's 1 of 8)
NO Price checking of unusual that are on the server without that item's owner's permission.
NO Selling and / or trading of Steam Accounts.
NO Using the frying pan, the melee weapon aka Panning.
WE RECOMMEND having voice enabled, as admins use it for primary contact.

Right now, as a regular on the server, I would like the staff of HG to hear out my opinion on changing the rules (It´s nothing bad).

1. The frying pan sound is disabled, no? I don´t think there is a need to have that up on the rules anymore, as it does not make the annoying sound as it used to.

2. I´d like for a new rule to be added. This rule is that No advertising of any steam groups, recruiting, hacks, or websites. This rule goes for a few audiences, mainly those who are new to the servers. I´m aware there may some other gaming communities where advertising is allowed, but in my time here, clearly it isn´t allowed, as I heard multiple times from various staff members. Sometimes, people like to be smart asses, and check the rules board for EVERYTHING, and if it isn´t there, they´ll just continue to do whatever they were doing. I see a ton of advertisers who don´t listen to other people, and actually wait until an admin gets on to tell em to stop. If this general rule is added, I feel that there will be less non-trade/spycrab/heavyboxing related advertisements, just to keep our community clean.

3. Spycrab room regulations. A lot of users like the idea of spycrabbing, plus the whole way it works too. However, multiple times, I´ve seen many people just sit in the spycrab rooms, and do nothing, just fooling around. They´ll taunt, or just idle, with the door shut, of course. They do that mostly when an admin isn´t on, or when they´re unaware of the rules. The new rule I´m proposing here is The spycrab room is meant for ONLY spycrabbing purposes. That rule seems fair enough, so any smart ass wont come in and say ¨it´s not on the rules, so I can do it!¨

4. Hacking/cheating of any kind will get you a permanent IP ban. Yup, this one´s obvious. You´ll never know who comes by in on the server. Maybe putting this rule up will inform users that overall hacking/cheating will indeed get you a permanent ban. It might impact some, as most come on their alternative accounts. Some of them don´t realize that the ban affects your IP, making it so that you cannot come to trade with any other account.

5. No sentrycamping. I personally do not know what the staff´s view on this one is, but I´ve met a few admins who disapprove of sentrycamping. To me, taking out a sentry camper is quite easy, but to others, it may not be. Sentry campers kinda bring attention to other campers, and before you know it, there´s a horde of sentries right outside your spawn. I just want everyone else to have a fair/fun time in the server.

6. I want to question the spamming chat part, as I cannot really clarify what the staff means by spam. By spam, do you mean:

DaSmallN00bFukDaWorld: rektm8
DaSmallN00bFukDaWorld: rektm8
DaSmallN00bFukDaWorld: rektm8
DaSmallN00bFukDaWorld: rektm8
DaSmallN00bFukDaWorld: rektm8
DaSmallN00bFukDaWorld: rektm8

Or something more like this:

Mango: Selling a strange jarate for 0.44 refs!
Mango: Selling a strange jarate for 0.44 refs!

If we´re going with option two, I´d like to suggest the rule of Limit trade ads to 1 per chat cycle. I mean, people like to get attention when they´re trading, they obviously want people to buy their stuff, but I´d like for everyone to have a fair chance to post their advertisements too. If one person were to multi-post their ads, wouldn´t everyone else? I know it´s already a rule within the staff, but again, smart asses and new players.

That concludes my suggestion, please do not take anything I posted in a negative shape, way, or form- I only want to voice out my opinion and suggestion as a regular player. Thanks for reading, and have a great day!

Any Additional Information?:
This, along with my other pending suggestion here is meant to be a side task, I can tell the staff is busy and suggestions like these can be just mere improvements. But once again, thanks for reading!

-Lecatzz

 

Well, thanks for your help anyways.