Mobile Task Force Leader Gunner

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1: My ingame name: Mobile 2: My SteamID: STEAM_0:1:74976282 3: Name of the admin(s) involved: Andrew 4: What server did it happen on: ZE 5: Map: ze_ffvii_mako_reactor_v5_3 6: Time and date: 11.08.2025, 20:10 something 7: Explanation of the situation: on mako v5 it was the 4th round after ex2 had already been won and usually we go yek the round after that, its been done almost always for idk how long exactly but ik ive always seen it done for every mako session we play but for whatever reason andrew didnt want me too even though the majority of the server players want to because its how mako v5 is played and he transfers the item from me. we win the round and the next couple rounds people try to yek and he doesnt transfer the item from them like he did with me even, none of the admins did any announcement on it also. 8: Proof: 11.08.2025 mako v5 demos

I can respect your opinion and criticism, But... Its hard for me and probably alot of other people to take what you say seriously when you had one of most random and manchildish crashouts infront of the whole community including the "last message" you left the community on. which also proves my point that your response is politically motivated like some other people have tried to bring up against me which is funny because it has nothing to do with ze or myself, so thank you for proving my point.

MY HOMIE WILLY ill keep it short this time I promise you're right in the points you bring up, im not trying to justify the impersonation. its bad for sure. the flaming part I agree, it gets pretty bad at times when you're leading. I lead quite alot and there are sessions where it truely reaches a new level of frustration. nobody defending, everyone doorhugging, bad item users. and sometimes when I see the same person picking up items, misusing them and then we have to replay the 10 minutes out of the 12 minute stage over and over it gets pretty frustrating. for your second point, tbh we both have different experiences coming from different games and communities. as I said the accusations are strictly there if I have proof or witnesses to back it up. realistically when you think about it, what's the alternative? imagine in this case nobody reported loones and he was still around the community that has kids on it. you see my point? and this isnt really new (the whole calling out thing), I just dont like being used as the one to make an example of by punishment thats one of the main reason I made this report also. as for it being an insult, yeah its for sure bad and worse than other words but bro you cant pin the whole thing on me when I posted logs showing its been said more than 7000+ times. also like nide isnt a profanity friendly community. things like the n word have been said a little small amount of 200,000 times. and "kill yourself" & "kys" which is also pretty bad around a combined total of 14,000 times by almost everyone. and you're right bro maybe im too invested in this game, it comes as a side effect from being a new player and still being in a phase where I enjoy the game immensely. I like your final advice for sure though hahaha. love you bro.

Hey Hobbitten. I'll start off point by point and address your response. 1) Starting off with the situation about the permabanned person "You shared this information with koen" -- Nope, Koen was fully aware of the whole situation without my input. We had recently permabanned 3 people who were all in a group posting lolicons (sexualized children) to each other. Me and Koen were discussing the situation and he brought up permabanning this person from nide aswell since they're a nide player. I said "If you think management would support it then yeah". Knowing the nide mindset I even brought up saying how it might get management mad at him because it happened outside of nide. I dont know why you're making it sound like I was the main drive behind this decision, I fully support it for obvious reasons but I never brought it up banning him from nide in the first place. The problem ill say again is you initially supporting the punishment but then backtracking, Once the punishment is done its automatically part of the community. Also since people were curious and asking me to see the evidence, I shared a heavily censored version of the proof to the people that asked me and they all found it very disturbing. To be fair, I dont think you or other management defend this kind of stuff. But there are instances where, In my opinion, you need to let go of community isolationism. Especially when it comes to the worst things such as what I described. 2) "I want to clarify that your demotion was not tied to this situation" -- Although I kinda doubt this considering the timing that it happened, And with our talk after extending well into this subject for quite a while, I cant really prove that it was so ill humbly accept that it is not tied to this situation. 3) "the LSA team was made aware of a player impersonating another player in the community. Upon checking IP address and logged information" -- Yeah, I was playing cs2 and I was waiting join a server so in the meantime I joined css to play for a bit till the map changed. I was impersonating one of the russian players who happens to say pretty funny stuff so I joined and played some of his sounds on the voice + then talked myself. Im not denying this at all and you're right in the sense that it looks bad but also I dont think massive harm was done. I gave up on trying to join mapeadores on cs2 and came back to nide on my main account and you clearly posted what I said below but I dont know why you're bringing up what I said to Wanderer since im close friends with him and we both shit talk eachother for idk like 8 months now as banter. I dont know why you're saying its also shittalking mapeadores I dont have a problem with them. And for what I said about ZE below that. If someone's being confrontational i'll likely say what I think without sugar coating, But ask anyone and I think they'll tell you that nide gets pretty annoying to play at times, There are times where nobody plays the game properly (this is relevant to you tbh because you banned a person around 2/3 months ago for being friendly with humans on a joke map (doorhug&solo). Nobody defends, Everybody doorhugs, Server dies after FF maps and you cant play any other decent map with a full server maybe 30 people at best and half of them are AFK or in spec. So that probably contributed a big part to me crashing out also because I tend to lead maps alot and at some point it gets tiresome but if I dont do it its unlikely someone else will. "However, never had we ever have an admin impersonate another player and sending harassing messages." -- Impersonate I agree, not good at all. "harassing" kind of a longshot. You'd have a massive list of people to silence if what I said there is considered "harassing" "Our deeper investigation further revealed a pattern of systemic behavior from you that ruins the image of Nide admins and ruins the experience for other players" -- Right, Says who? Have you ever asked the players what they think of nide admins? Have you ever asked them what traits of an admin contributes the best experience for the players? Because correct me if im wrong but with the internet being the internet and it being full of strangers that dont know eachother, People likely care more about if something effects thier own game rather than how someone acts. What I mean: Trashtalk and in general saying stuff is the behaviour part. While things like ebanning properly, Slaying at the right time, Putting on practices modes and any other techincal stuff is other people's game. I have a hard time believing people really a give a damn what someone else says, If that were the case then nobody would play on nide. Why? have a look However I can assure you, When there an admin that isnt doing what he's suppose to such as: Not CKnifing properly, Not ebanning when its warranted, Ebanning when its not warranted, Slaying at the wrong times and so on and so fourth. That hurts the and ruins the image for the staff team MUCH more than if some admin says "you f*cking pedophile" "you f*cking faggot" "you retard why are you not using the item". And tbh we have previous cases of other higher up admins doing this also but I dont know how much you address them. Here's a good example of admin behaviour that tarnishes the whole staff team image is mere seconds (Unrelated but a good example) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-UrtVMo1Lw (The admin in question: LSA .Revan) And I dont care this was long ago, This video should be held as an example of the last thing you want to be as an admin. 3) "You claim that you have only brought up pedos/pedophiles around nine or ten times but chat logs and player reports indicate much more than what you claim." Maybe you thought I pulled that number randomly out of nowhere but not really. I went to the ingame-chat channel and wrote "mobile task force leader gunner: pedo" & "mobile task force leader gunner: pedophile" Also in my original post I quote: "I dont think I said it on the mic more than that also" I mean I dont think im a cunt from my heart, I kinda know that word is offensive, but so is Nigger, so is Faggot, so is "Kill yourself" but I usually only said that when I got rly pissed off. In the screenshots above I also showcased how many times its been said, a whopping 7000+ times with both words combined, But maybe me saying it like 10 or hell 20 times, Clearly im the issue in this case. 4) "There are logs of you calling several other players pedophiles in chat, and also spreading unfounded rumors of other players being involved in pedophilia" -- You want me to go in depth and say my reasoning? Probably not, Would be irrelevant anyways because this report isnt about that. But I did go a little bit into depth about 1 person in our private chat, You've yet to reply to me on but thats 1 example. 5) "While we cannot confirm the validity of all your statements, several players have come forward and expressed discomfort with your comments" -- Yeah you cant, But I dont see why you cant trust it when im calling out my own mistakes always and in the instances where I stand my ground I provide evidence or backup of witnesses, But also the people that have reached out to me and said they dont appreciate what im saying to them have been greeted with an apology from me and I fully stopped saying anything vulgar to them. I know the default shouldnt be that but when me myself when I have been shittalked non stop because of political reasons that have nothing to do with ZE it kinda blinds you at some points of time. And dont think for a second im playing the victim, I dont care what people say about me. Im merely stating the fact that ze has one of the most toxic communities out there. And for the instances where it was an insult and not an accusation I noted that it was my fault and shouldnt have been said even though that word gets said often on the server by alot of different people. 6) "Below are just screenshots of messages you have sent on the server" -- Nice, Cool compilation image. That's a clever way of making something look much more than it really is. Especially when you consider that's over a span of 1.3 years with around 1500 hours on the server. Not to mention some of those are serious, and some of them are not. Such as me joking with Seal (love you homie) 7) "On top of the baseless accusations of pedophilia, there have been many instances of you harassing other players on the server" -- "Baseless accusations", Im either saying it as an insult like the 7000+ times its been said, Or I have a valid reason to do so. In this case valid reason as in alot of these games and communities have mutual people in common that are connected through big chat groups and ive seen the behaviour of some of these people outside of nide. You can say this is my fault for bringing this into nide, Tbh I wasent the first to do this and ive seen it being done often in the past, the guy who made mist and all that. But its unfair for you to try and pin the blame solely on me. "Many chat logs and player reports have indicated a trend of harassment towards certain groups of players." -- Easy to say, Show me what you're talking about if you want me to explain. 9) "we know for certain that many have come forward expressing discomfort and reluctance for playing on the server when you are present" -- Ah, I know who you're talking about. So next time they start talking trash and in some cases saying they say they hope I die I should sit there and take it. Tbh maybe, Atleast in that case they cant come to you and play victim when I respond to their comments. 10) "During your time as admin, we were also aware that you had disagreements with several other admins and LSAs" -- Agreed. "While we do not expect all admins to be on friendly terms with one another, we still expect civil discussion and cooperation as an admin team" -- So, Is secretly reporting another admin over and over again over the smallest things, Searching for reasons to get someone in trouble, That's seen as civil in your eyes? Because that's the main reason I had disagreements with these admins (most ppl know who). "Our logs also showed that you had sent an msay message targeting another LSA." -- Uh who? Because tbh I think everyone on the LSA team is pretty good right now even though with 1 of them ive had a tough past with them I think hes doing a pretty good job so I credit him for that. If you're referring to one of the retired LSAs, I showed you the message he confronted me with. I cant treat someone with respect when he treats me with disrespect. Sorry. "After considering all the chat logs, unfounded pedophilia accusations, and harassment campaigns," -- Chat logs, Already addressed that point. Unfounded pedo accusations, Not entirely unfounded, Some of them are insults some of them are valid accusations because of proof or witnesses other than myself. And the last part "harrasment campaigns". You bring up this point like im some sort of puppet master, I play ze to have fun. Though we can take a moment to talk about your handling of the whisper campaign against me. When I was admin, I was getting reported by the same people (I know who and what for because they made it too obvious, Everyone else knows exactly 'THE PERSON' im referring to.) for the smallest things, You didnt think that it was targetted campaign? Was it not weird that the same people were reporting the same person over and over, and over the smallest things? Was that not suspcious to you? I dont have any idea what you did with this but I would like for you to state what you did about it. It was insane to the extent it got to, You say some people are "reluctance for playing on the server" well imagine what its like to have multiple people searching for reasons to get you in trouble every single step of the way. "I acknowledge that I handled this demotion with a hot head" -- Its fine. "I believe my actions are justified" -- My quote from the original post: "I'll start off and I say I didnt disagree at all with his statement, Its fully his right to decide which admins are fit to be admin, and he fully has the authority to dismiss any of them if he sees fit" I think you still blew it out of proportion, Ive been an admin for around 8 months maybe a bit more on your server and throughout that time I believe I contributed more than you think. I dont appreciate you disregarding all the headaches and annoyances I had to go through to moderate your server and most times at the expense of my personal enjoyment of the game, Given my explaination for the whole situation. "My goal is to have an enjoyable experience for all players, that means that no one is above the rest, no one should be able to throw accusations to other players with impunity. The whole point of the server is to play, have fun and create good memories with the people you meet here, and it's not ideal if these memories are ruined because of episodes like so" -- Agreed. "I also let the management and the lead server admins review my actions which is why the response have taken so long to be posted." -- Thank you

I appreciate the kind words , but tbh I dont think that's the case, im on good terms with all of the LSAs and other management aswell (atleast from my side). I stated also its nothing personal against Hobbitten I can see his point of view but we all have differing opinions and I feel this is best solved by being publicly discussed. And yeah morals are pretty big, Being honest and keeping true to your word is always important.

I dont get what your point is tbh, have you read what I said? I dont have a personal problem with anyone, not Hobbitten, not the LSAs, not Koen. I mentioned that fully also. If you dont wanna read my posts, and or you have a hard time understanding the situation then stop adding on these posts that contribute nothing to solving the issue or at the very least trying to.

The last bit is very problematic to say because this is essentially digging for justification and reasons after a arguebly bad decision. I stated in the post, The demote happened almost instantly after my message, It would be hard to convince anyone that me saying what I said wasent the main primer for the demote punishment + the timing and the private messages that followed afterwards. So to say there were multiple details involved is unfair, these details were brought up after the demotion. If the details were there before then they shouldve been brought up seperately way beforehand and was it that urgent to warrant a swift instant demotion + 3 month silence? Sorry but this feels more like an excuse to try and justify a bad decision in my opinion. We're not all perfect and its really easy to judge and demonize everyone if you really want to, it applies to almost everyone. The same way that you can look at me and say you're a terrible admin for xyz, you can also come and say I think you're a great admin for xyz. I can give examples of this. Hobbitten management by saying he made bad decisions such as appointing some lsas that went on to be insanely disliked by the majority of players. The other side of the arguement is he does alot for the community behind the scenes that goes unnoticed out of his own free time whilst busy with life. It would be unfair to ignore one side of the arguement and judge fully on the other one. I can say the same for Koen, I can argue the times where he'd crash out infront of everyone was a bad look for the staff team but it would be unfair to judge him only on that when he works hard and develops for the server that we all play on under his own free time from university and the 10 thousand other projects hes working on. I can say the same for Harraga by highlighting hes the guy who was banned for a year for screwing over nide's donation paypal but it would be unfair considering he's one of the best admins on the server atm and is doing really well. My point is its generally easy to really stick onto someone and find reasons, very rarely are people near-perfect, lmao ill say it straight I think Anwar and Sito are the 2 admins I could think as being virtually flawless and near perfect but everyone has their shortcomings. Im not gonna judge if I were a bad or good admin, Thats up to people to decide. edit: im only clarifying this isnt a jab at anyone, its to help put things into prespective, 0 personal / ill feelings

I saw your message anyways, good on you for removing it.

1: Your own ingame name: Mobile Task Force Leader Gunner 2: Your own steam-ID: Irrelevant 3: Name of the admin(s) involved: Hobbitten 4: What server did it happen on: Nide 5: What map: Irrelevant 6: Time and date: 7/17/2025 1:33 PM 7: Explain the situation (with the maximum details) To start, I originally didnt wanna make this post because I felt it would get treated unfairly and deleted but I figured its worth it as its been bothering me for a while The whole thing started with something that is kinda irrelevant to this post but provides context as to what blew it all up, In short I had a serious disagreement with Hobbitten on a person that was banned and getting unbanned from nide. I care for the whole staff team as a whole and I was a part of it and I thought this would be a really bad image for us as a whole because of the serious "accusations" (not really, I have proof of that backs these claims up) this person had and because he'd been previously banned permanently and at this time for a month, It would be really hard to backtrack all the sudden. I'll add on and say that all of the admins are witnesses to this whole thing, I obviously cant post anything thats related to the administrative chat as its a private chat but the permanent ban that originally happened was done by Koen, Backed up by Hobbitten. Why is this important? This means that the evidence that was provided was sufficient enough to justify the ban in the first place. My personal opinion on the whole thing is: Whether you like it or not the community doesnt get along well with people that are involved in these kinds of "things" (I wont state what, Its disturbing). Though I understand we all share different opinions and some believe if it happened outside the community its irrelevant. However in this case a ban was already issused in the first place so automatically it becomes part of the community. So this leads to the whole incident blowing up, on the 7/17/2025 I scroll through nide discord and I see the person that was banned is unbanned, And as I stated I strongly disagreed with this decision and I didnt know that it happened. I called out the decision to undo the ban in admin chat, The exact words I wont state but it was pretty much a disagreement with the decision but in a much more vulgar tone, and how this decision will be a serious issue in how we as the staff team is seen, Obviously as an admin at this time I care for the view that we have on the server. The result: I see around an hour later a message from Hobbitten, an Instant demotion without warning or freeze, + a 3 month silence. Hobbitten states the reason in not just my reaction to the undoing of the punishment but also other "incidents" that happened in game, I know myself and what I get into so I knew what he was referring to (or so I think, I asked to know what exactly so I could explain myself but got ignored). Although I personally believe the decision Hobbitten made was over the message because of the timing (Other incidents I could think about were around 1 week ago, and a misconduct incident unrelated around a day before) and after our long talk he settled on "I dont want an admin that accuses people of being pedophiles" I'll start off and I say I didnt disagree at all with his statement, Its fully his right to decide which admins are fit to be admin, and he fully has the authority to dismiss any of them if he sees fit but i'd like to put things into prespective. I rarely say the word as an insult to anyone because it is pretty bad, I even went back and searched myself in the discord ingame chat and from my year and a slightly more of playing I said it a total of 9/10 times and not all of them were directed at anyone. I dont think I said it on the mic more than that also (I usually talk when I lead only or sometimes to strike conversation, I do have my shit talk moments but lets be honest thats literally everyone) But I have another arguement to bring up. If this word is that terrible to the point where you choose to instantly demote an admin and put a 3 month silence on him, Then how come you can say "Kill Yourself"? How is this any less wrong? Ofcourse if you really want to make a deal out of you, You can easily give someone else the same treatment as I have gotten if you want to. Its all about perspective. Keep in mind this wasent a stone written rule. On nide you can call people the N word, F word whatever you want, People say kill yourself on a daily to each other and somehow when I confront someone perhaps in a defensive arguement and I happened to say "Pedophile" thats enough to fully toss the 8 months of admin dedication and contribution into the trashcan? I understand that an admin talking trash isnt ideal but at the end of the day we're all human and we all have shortcomings. im personally a very loyal person to my friends and the aggressive reaction that came out of me was perhaps a mistake. And for the record, If I ever said the word "Pedophile" to someone and I meant it, Then I had proof or valid reasoning to do so but that's irrelevant to this topic because this topic's about the treatement I recieved from Hobbitten and how I feel its unfair. To @ Hobbitten , Let the full management team + LSAs review this. I dont have anything personal against you but I feel this decision on your end although could be justified and valid, was still a case of mistreatment. 8: Proof (Proof is very important, so please provide as much of it as you can before you create a thread here) I wont post any of my private dms with Hobbitten, I will not be posting anything that was in the admin channel. Most of the staff team was witness to this whole incident and they're aware of it. At the end of the day im here to have fun and enjoy my time but im also a human being, so when I feel mistreated or disrespected I dont like to keep it privately with myself. Thank you.

very knowledged with alot of experience, would make a great admin. +1

-1 I feel you have the motivation but you demonstrate bad moral behaviour overall. my criticism of you is you're too egotistical when it comes to leading, playing and such, the image I get of you is someone trying to be in the spotlight always and are not happy when someone else approaches it. when you're leading you're not open to criticism, and you get defensive when people genuinely try to help you or correct you, you take it as if they're trying to lower you down so they could raise themselfs (rare case, people are usually helpful if you're open to hear them.) an important part of being an admin is being trustworthy that you're able to make proper decisions especially when things are going badly or chaotic. everyone makes mistakes, everyone makes bad calls but there's no place for bad morals such as ego and superiority complex like behaviour.

valid criticism, tbh leading gets insanely tiring sometimes but ofcourse you're right its always a priority to keep cool

im open for criticism always, but tbh I dont trash the whole of nide or the whole of the nide admin team like you say. im very specific with what I say because im not blinded by emotions when it comes to whats good and whats bad. and in this case its very specific instances where I do criticise some of the parts on nide because not everything is perfect sadly and improvement is achieved through acknowledgement of those problems and bringing them to light. at the end of the day I play on this server frequently for a reason. I appreciate the feedback

Required: Ingame Nickname: Mobile Task Force Leader Gunner Discord username: mobilegunner_ Age: 23 SteamID: STEAM_0:1:74976282 What server are you applying for (ZR or ZE server?): ZE Optional: (Feel free to answer one or more questions) / Why are you interested in applying for admin? I've been admin before and I retired around 3/4 months ago, im interested in becoming admin again so I can contribute to the enjoyment of the server. im pretty active usually aswell mostly on EU time but sometimes NA aswell. / What time zone are you active in (NA or EU hours)? Both, EU more / How long have you been playing on the server which you applied for? Around 1 year / How experienced are you in the gamemode for which you applied? I have previous admin experience, I was admin for around 7/8 months, player experience wise ive played for around a year and im familiar with the majority of the game. / Do you have any past admin experience? I was server admin and event manager for around 7/8 months on the server. management and dev for gmod zs / Do you have any other skills like (Mapping, Plugins, Drawing, Video editing etc) Video editing, I know a bit of map stripper work