Digresser*reads OP's rant about people who rally against hate talk and trolling
*thinks, gosh, must be an interesting story behind this. wonders if should read story or scour house for pretzels, since stomach now insists upon pretzels
*curiosity wins out over brainwashing-induced hunger and so googles for said story and gets to read these bits about the OP: banned 1 day for "ignoring admins" on TF2-Trader.com servers; multiple bans on FirePowered Gaming for "general exploit of game/map/server", spam in chat/voice, and excessive spam; permabanned for "inappropriate language" on The Retirees servers; permabanned on Mann Co. Trading for "admin disrespect and micspamming"; permabanned on Skial for evading a communications ban after posting players' personal info in the servers (not to mention having been votesilenced repeatedly for spamming/racism); banned under the alias "Jesus hates ******s" for 55 years (because why not?) from StormCraft for "disrespecting server/admins"; permabanned 3x from TF2newbs.com for "being an obnoxious and rude a**hole, slurs"; permabanned 3x from terrobang for "Nuclear douchebag" and "circumvention of the permaban(s)"; permabanned from PGC for "being a horsec*ck"; plus a few forum threads discussing OP.
*thinks self just wasted a bit of time and that story was exactly as expected until reads THIS...
- 15 January 2014 - TF2center.com posts "TF2Center is all about the community, so if you are interested in joining us to help make it a better place, we invite you to become a TF2Center Member. As a Member, you will gain direct access to the core development team where you can suggest, design and implement your ideas. We expect you to be able and willing to contribute some of your time in a specialist skill, such as programming, graphics design, [...] high level competitive league player/admin, or any other skill you feel might be useful. We also accept people who simply spend a lot of time on the site and are always open to helping others [...] Becoming a Member is the first stepping stone to becoming an administrator [...] Additional perks include Priority ban processing[...]"
- 20 January 2014 - OP applies to be a TF2center Member. Oddly, he inaccurately states "currently playing in Plat in UGC this season", however, given the timing of his post, it's possible he thought this was accurate at the time.
- 24 January 2014 - due to his strong art portfolio (it really is), TF2center approves the OP's Membership
*realizes that amount of trolling TF2center's lobbies see suddenly makes a lot more sense
*is happy to have seen some talented art but is angered by TF2center's shoddy homework/extreme leniency. decides to go find pretzels in order to calm down.
*finds only peanuts. shelled, unsalted peanuts. is now more sad than angry, but decides to share story with community so that at least everyone can laugh at terrobang and PGC's creative ban reasons.
you have done your homework!
for the record however, i have no intentions of fucking with tf2 center
my issue with pub servers (and my behavior generated by it) is the fact that i fucking hate tf2 pub admins and the players they cater to.
i would like to see tf2center grow, and hopefully contribute something beneficial to the website design. however, i do not seek administrative powers nor would i want to abuse them.