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General Questions - Is it bad...

Anonymous - Fri Jul 09, 2004 6:19 pm
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Is it bad to make someone a sysop immediately? This person says he's been a Smod in Trench Wars and a Mod in Gauntlet and he wants to be a Sysop in my zone to do things such as coordinate events, and hire referees. I have a feeling that the person will cause some mischief. Does this happen often and what could that person do?

Mr Ekted - Fri Jul 09, 2004 6:26 pm
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They can modify all files on the server. Change server/arena settings, edit mods, smods, sysops. I think it might even be possible to upload a modified subgame and do *recycle to cause to be executed some code that they wrote, which would give them complete access to the machine, blocking you out in the process.

Solo Ace - Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:03 pm
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Subgame refuses a bunch of file extensions to be uploaded/deleted(/downloaded), .exe, .dll etc.

Anyway, who is it?

Anonymous - Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:09 pm
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His name was Airborne Division. He said he was part of the 101st Airborne Division at Iraq. And that he was on his laptop there.

Solo Ace - Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:14 pm
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Hmm'k, don't believe him.

What he says about modship in t3g is incorrect, if you're still not sure, go ask there.

Why would he even *need* sysop for such crappy jobs anyway?
Even a lowly moderator could coordinate events and hire referees.

Cyan~Fire - Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:23 pm
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Once a TW ER got sysop in one of my hosted zones and randomly *super-ed whenever he got killed for revenge. You make the decision.

Picano2.0 - Fri Jul 09, 2004 8:12 pm
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Wow. Airborne sure seems to get around...

EDIT: Just got the complete log of it
2 Days Ago
Airborne Division> who owns this zone?
Charcoal> dr bra
Charcoal> unfortunately dr bra forgot to install ?owner
Airborne Division> is dr bra every on?
Charcoal> hes on sometimes
Charcoal> but usually hes... 'doing' other stuff
picano2.0> who need owner when theres ?listmod..... but i wish it showed offline staff
P Airborne Division> who do i contact if i wanna become staff?
Airborne Division> .buy ship7
Airborne Division> how to you enter?
Darkflare> read the F1 help
T Airborne Division> who can i contatc to become staff?
Airborne Division has $1000 in their account.
T Darkflare> how long have you played the zone airborne?
T Charcoal> send a application to 'siaon@hotmail.com'
T picano2.0> you jsut started here and you want staff? no
P picano2.0> ?qip
There was 1 match to your query.
NAME IP MACID DAYS AGO
Airborne Division xx.xxx.xx.xx x 0
T Airborne Division> i didnt just start
Airbone has left the arena.

Dustpuppy - Fri Jul 09, 2004 9:55 pm
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He was never a mod here (T3 The G)
And Picano's log looks pretty pathetic.
I wouldn't give him anything, but knock yourself out

Picano2.0 - Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:05 pm
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Pathetic in what sence?

Dustpuppy - Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:06 pm
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Heh as in what he was doing was pathetic, not you.
Picking a random zone and asking for staff before even playing it?

Solo Ace - Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:08 pm
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That's what I did, accepted in t3g within 5 seconds!

Nah, heh, yeah I agree, just ban him instead of even wasting time on him.

Anonymous - Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:50 pm
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Like i said, i was looking for a new zone to start up, but i didnt know it wasnt a new starting zone, i just downloaded the new zone list from about a month or two of not updating it, so i didnt have much of a way of knowing.

Solo Ace - Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:56 pm
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Whatever you've done, you shouldn't have said you were staff at other zones, since you weren't.

Anonymous - Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:07 pm
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Wasn't new? My zone isn't even hosted yet.

Solo Ace - Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:08 pm
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Hahaha, the patheticness didn't stop there, it's even getting worse!

Picano2.0 - Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:11 pm
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He was talking about my zone I believe (Hyperspace) but... I can't see how a zone averaging 20 pop and on ssc billing can be new

Smithy101 - Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:21 pm
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JaqMs14 wrote:

Wasn't new? My zone isn't even hosted yet.

Meh im not planning on making a zone anytime soon i mean i can but i dont feel like it.

Bak - Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:39 am
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$20 says you can't smithy...

Matzke - Sun Jul 11, 2004 2:12 pm
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lol Bak
Ok Jaq, dont hire him he's obviously bs'ing you, I wouldn't hire anyone you dont know as sysop immediately without giving them a trial at a lower position, and if it doesn't seem right, go with your gut instinct, if they abuse as sysop i'd ban them just to make it easy for you, and definately make sure you backup all your server files,

Anonymous - Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:24 am
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actually dust, what you fail to realize is that i have many alias that wouldnt come up in an alias check, considering I have gotten a new computer within the past 3 years..

Solo Ace - Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:28 am
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What was your alias when you were on T3G staff then?

Prove what you say.

Bak - Mon Jul 12, 2004 12:22 pm
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alias checks checks IP addresses too, as well as linking aliases used with the same macID / permissionID. So unless you changed machines exactly when you changed ip addresses (ISPs) and never logged on your new alias on your old machine or your old alias on your new machine, the aliases will be linked

D1st0rt - Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:17 pm
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Aren't you kind of busy flying airplanes or something to be running around as sysop?

Dr Brain - Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:35 pm
Post subject: Re: Is it bad...

JaqMs14 wrote:

Answer: Yes, it's bad to hire someone you don't know who hasn't helped the zone at all (or played the zone at all). Make them work for a while without zone powers. Get to know them. THEN and ONLY then, make the decision to hire them.

X-Raider - Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:45 pm
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Bak wrote:

$20 says you can't smithy...

? $20 says he cant what?

Bak - Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:04 pm
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Smithy101 wrote:

[..]

Meh im not planning on making a zone anytime soon i mean i can but i dont feel like it.

Anonymous - Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:25 pm
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i have a new Ip adress also.

Anonymous - Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:27 pm
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I didnt have an edit option, but i made this alias and didnt tell people for a reason Solo. I also think this is getting off topic, i do agree is was stupid to go to a zone, ask the owner who i didnt know to be staff, and expect to get it. Im sorry, but i dont think this message board should be continued.

D1st0rt - Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:58 am
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I dunno, I'm ignoring him

Solo Ace - Wed Jul 14, 2004 11:59 am
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Tell me in private, I quit T3G and the game anyway.

D1st0rt - Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:02 pm
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I think this message board should be continued, but the thread doesn't need to

Solo Ace - Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:35 pm
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He wants to kill the forums.

Smithy101 - Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:36 pm
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Who?