I just got vote-kicked from a CoD4 server because one terrible player decided I was hacking. He went on a crusade of accusations, brought in some of his butt-buddy clan members, and eventually, after about fifteen failed votes, got me kicked.
I’ve mentioned this kind of thing before, and it will probably always ring true. The clueless players of the world make up the vast majority, and if they’re convinced you’re cheating, you’re cheating. The conundrum is that they’re simply too bad at the game to ever understand that you’re not cheating. It’s simply beyond their comprehension. In response to their complete lack of talent, the only thing they can do is lash out with false accusations.
Generally, this is fine. Let the noobs vent; if you don’t they’ll probably end up too frustrated and will stop playing the game entirely, and that’s not good for the overall community. The only time whining, accusatory, talentless dorks affect anything at all is in one case…
…when the power to vote is left enabled on the server.
This is stupid, and no server admin should ever, ever let this happen. Sure, it might be useful from time to time to remove asshats, but more often than not it’s going to be used to ill effect. Legit players will be kicked, stupid maps will be voted in when half the players are having fun currently, and you can be quite assured that votes will pop up several times in every ten minute span. It’s going to be abused far more than it will be legitimately useful.
This happened to be the case tonight. So, while I quite obviously don’t hack, I was accused many times over (by the same guy), and that eventually led to my kicking. The funny thing is that the kill cam was disabled, so the idiot who did all the accusing literally had no way of knowing how I was playing because he refused to spectate me. I’d like to think that if it’d been enabled that he’d see the error of his ways, but who am I kidding? A bad player will always accuse a good player regardless of evidence that contradicts his accusation. Ego makes people retarded.
The subconscious thought process is something along these lines: I’m bad but I don’t want to admit to myself that I’m bad. Therefore, this guy who is a lot better than me is obviously cheating. This way I don’t have to take responsibility for my own lack of talent and ambition. Naturally, this is stupid, and if you’ve ever seriously accused anyone of hacking when it wasn’t blatantly obvious just because he was beating you, you are stupid.
Nothing I said in response to his claims made any difference. Never mind that I was barely going 2:1 for all the spam; I was much better than the loser who called me out and his 0.3/1 ratio. When I mentioned that I wasn’t even doing that well, he said I was merely controlling my deaths — that I was letting myself be killed at strategic times so my score wouldn’t look hacker-like.
My only response to that was (and still is), “What the fuck?” Do people actually do this? Doesn’t that completely contradict the point of hacking in the first place? If I were to hack I’d do it to piss everyone off and go 200 – 10, not to barely string together a 2:1 on Killhouse. What the hell would be the point?
Of course, I’m sure my responses to him didn’t help my case. Here’s an example of one of our exchanges prior to about the eighth time he tried to get me kicked.
“Come on, guys. Kick this hacker fuck.”
“Dude, I’ve been playing [this game] for a year. You just suck, bro.”
“I’ve been playing [games] for years.”
“Badly.”
“So I think I know a hacker when I see one.”
“Obviously you don’t. Obviously you’re just a delusional fat loser who lives with his mom.”
Lucky for you guys, I have found this guy on the Internet. It’s not really him but this guy is exactly the kind of idiot I’m talking about. He’s bad at the game, whiny, accusatory, and a self-admitted 30-year-old virgin. Seriously, look at him delude himself. Psychological projection much? These are the types of guys who accuse good players of cheating all the time. It’s mostly because their lives suck and they can’t take the mental stress of also sucking at video games, the only things that haven’t rejected them.
Sigh. Gaming would be so much more enjoyable if noobs would just shut the hell up. Take your beating and go cry to yourself afterward.
Don’t let noobs admin your server.
I just got vote-kicked from a CoD4 server because one terrible player decided I was hacking. He went on a crusade of accusations, brought in some of his butt-buddy clan members, and eventually, after about fifteen failed votes, got me kicked.
I’ve mentioned this kind of thing before, and it will probably always ring true. The clueless players of the world make up the vast majority, and if they’re convinced you’re cheating, you’re cheating. The conundrum is that they’re simply too bad at the game to ever understand that you’re not cheating. It’s simply beyond their comprehension. In response to their complete lack of talent, the only thing they can do is lash out with false accusations.
Generally, this is fine. Let the noobs vent; if you don’t they’ll probably end up too frustrated and will stop playing the game entirely, and that’s not good for the overall community. The only time whining, accusatory, talentless dorks affect anything at all is in one case…
…when the power to vote is left enabled on the server.
This is stupid, and no server admin should ever, ever let this happen. Sure, it might be useful from time to time to remove asshats, but more often than not it’s going to be used to ill effect. Legit players will be kicked, stupid maps will be voted in when half the players are having fun currently, and you can be quite assured that votes will pop up several times in every ten minute span. It’s going to be abused far more than it will be legitimately useful.
This happened to be the case tonight. So, while I quite obviously don’t hack, I was accused many times over (by the same guy), and that eventually led to my kicking. The funny thing is that the kill cam was disabled, so the idiot who did all the accusing literally had no way of knowing how I was playing because he refused to spectate me. I’d like to think that if it’d been enabled that he’d see the error of his ways, but who am I kidding? A bad player will always accuse a good player regardless of evidence that contradicts his accusation. Ego makes people retarded.
The subconscious thought process is something along these lines: I’m bad but I don’t want to admit to myself that I’m bad. Therefore, this guy who is a lot better than me is obviously cheating. This way I don’t have to take responsibility for my own lack of talent and ambition. Naturally, this is stupid, and if you’ve ever seriously accused anyone of hacking when it wasn’t blatantly obvious just because he was beating you, you are stupid.
Nothing I said in response to his claims made any difference. Never mind that I was barely going 2:1 for all the spam; I was much better than the loser who called me out and his 0.3/1 ratio. When I mentioned that I wasn’t even doing that well, he said I was merely controlling my deaths — that I was letting myself be killed at strategic times so my score wouldn’t look hacker-like.
My only response to that was (and still is), “What the fuck?” Do people actually do this? Doesn’t that completely contradict the point of hacking in the first place? If I were to hack I’d do it to piss everyone off and go 200 – 10, not to barely string together a 2:1 on Killhouse. What the hell would be the point?
Of course, I’m sure my responses to him didn’t help my case. Here’s an example of one of our exchanges prior to about the eighth time he tried to get me kicked.
Lucky for you guys, I have found this guy on the Internet. It’s not really him but this guy is exactly the kind of idiot I’m talking about. He’s bad at the game, whiny, accusatory, and a self-admitted 30-year-old virgin. Seriously, look at him delude himself. Psychological projection much? These are the types of guys who accuse good players of cheating all the time. It’s mostly because their lives suck and they can’t take the mental stress of also sucking at video games, the only things that haven’t rejected them.
Sigh. Gaming would be so much more enjoyable if noobs would just shut the hell up. Take your beating and go cry to yourself afterward.