Facstab I started just finding people's center profiles and lifting the ridiculous like 1,000 year bans, with such reasons as "This is clearly what you wanted, so here you go" and other things akin to those lines of reasoning. I started finding people's center profiles by just finding their names on logs.tf and then going to their linked center profile from there. I know the sentiment for the site is kinda ass for the most part in 2024, but personally I'd like to try and get the site more on the up and up of more experienced and skilled players frequenting it. Personally I can only do so much, but I am more than willing to hear out anyone who has a suggestion and try and get things going with the brass of the site. The more influx in popularity the more reason to make the site better. If you have a silly or egregious ban that came from masternoob or otherwise from forever ago that came with an obviously stupid reason for even getting the ban in the first place, let me know.
That's a lot of dedication to something that not many would do. Hopefully those people still happen to be roaming TFTV and see this so they can check if they've been unbanned. Bans that are deserved have a place to stay within a limit depending on the circumstance, but bans that are overkill will only hurt the community. NA competitive TF2 players and newcomers already has a finite number, and then a % will ever actually use TF2C. So every ban is further limiting the # of possible players.
We now have a discord with a reliable ticket system(ban/unban requests, tech support, cooldown issues for when the system bugs out, general questions, etc.) that has been tremendously helpful in dealing with problems
You might want to edit your post and include the discord invite link.
TF2C may have a bad history, but it's functionality has always been decent, easy-to-use, and operable from a regular standpoint. Under Fac's direction and positive outlook, I think it's worth trying again. TF2C will only be as good as it's staff and players, and right now it needs players to really fulfill that.
Shoutout to Fac once again. For those that don't know, he's been around for over 10 years. His dedication to the game has always been strong, even during about more than half a decade he never had the hardware to run the game well and had multiple technical difficulties. In spite of this, he always kept trying and would come back, and when he finally did get some great hardware, his main commitment was to TF2. His passion for the game has always been unwavering.