Scott & Gameranger

[Typhy]

I think that people give Scott to much crap about how easily he bans people.  Personaly, I say that sence he set up this free gaming place which is perfect for us it is totaly in his rights to ban people who give him crap.  Think if you were the one who made gameranger, if people gave you to much crap such as telling you to "Fuck yourself" in a non joking manner wouldn't you give them a little ban?

-Typhy

[BTs_Mysterio]

Scott has put alot of effort into GR, but he could do testing at better times, not on weekends. (If Kevill reads this, thats constructive criticism )

[Stryker ? [ifB]]

Dude, Game Ranger and Scott is my savior man!  The only way I knew how to play online was with Unreal Tournament.  And F4.  So uhh? umm? yea.  GO SCOTT! lol

Stryker ? [ifB]

[Casper]

I think that people give Scott to much crap about how easily he bans people. ?Personaly, I say that sence he set up this free gaming place which is perfect for us it is totaly in his rights to ban people who give him crap. ?Think if you were the one who made gameranger, if people gave you to much crap such as telling you to "Fuck yourself" in a non joking manner wouldn't you give them a little ban?

-Typhy

and Posted by: Mysterio ? ? ?Posted on: May 4th, 2002, 6:04pm
Scott has put alot of effort into GR, but he could do testing at better times, not on weekends. (If Kevill reads this, thats constructive criticism ) ?i agree with you both and I Strongliy Agree With he ?could do testing at better times, not on weekends.


i know im sayiing the same thing But its what i think!!!
ohh and

P.S. He built it, It Is "FREE" (FREE) He has the right to ban you or boot you!!!!!

[?{RiP}? Vapor]

Yeah seriously. People do give him too much crap. But if he is testing today... did he ever pick a bad time. Why don't he do that during the week. Not on a freaking weekend when everyone is looking to game. I agree if he reads it he needs to take it as constructive criticism.

[BTs_Mysterio]

I stumbled apon Gr by accident. I was playign risk multi, when i saw a link to GR. and i joined. Ever since ive been a RS only mostly.

[Stryker ? [ifB]]

I agree with you guys also, but think of this.  Even though people that port the games over to the Mac pays him to use his software, he may also have a job on the weekend.  Plus he also has his own life.  This may have been his only time to work on the program fully.  Unless the server just crashed or some BS cause of that Y2K bs lol  

Stryker ? [ifB]

[Casper]

Since he is testing it is going to be Down all weekend or just the rest of the day im lookin For help here

[?{RiP}? Vapor]

I got a feeling it will be up by morning. Don't forget he supposedly lives in Austrailia 18 hours ahead of us. I remember one other time it was down like this for a whole day and then it was up by morning. So let's hope it is up by morning. Also during our day time while we up trying to play he is probably sleeping. And when we are sleeping is the time it will get fixed. So just give him a little time.

[Casper]

well it depends what time zone you are in!!! im in the alaskan time zone!!

[?{RiP}? Vapor]

k u probably like 21 hours behind him then. eastern is 18 hours behind.... i know dat from when mah sis went to austrailia

[Grifter]

Typhy, there's a difference between banning someone for telling you to fuck off, and being a jerk.  I actually asked him in the construct about OS X a few weeks back... something like:  "hey Evill, how goes the efforst on OS X?  Any news?".  I was promptly and rudely insulted by him and a bunch of Evill Sock Puppets.  "Stop bugging me about it.. it will be ready when it's ready...", "Don't be a fag, it takes a lot of work to do it and do it right like Evill", "Ban him!"... etc... it went on for a min more before I decided to leave.  Now, yes, he probably gets bugged about it often, but not by me and no need to be rude... I won't even mention his sock puppets that worship him without knowing much of anything.

As for being free and such, yeah, that's all great of him, but he would be even better if he would put a notice up on the web site and such about these things.

And we all remember last year when it was down for a week.

[Typhy]

Here is the problem with his OSX GR, he wants it to be to perfect. he has it all programed and ready to go however he can't get X to scan for games, I tell him that all that he has to do is have a "Game folder" And have people put the games in there to play.  However, He wants it to be perfect and thats his choice I guess.

[Typhy]

Well Grifter, I think that Scott is in kinda a hard spot, While he has to run gameranger and be on to make sure that people don't reallly mess things up etc.  He can't really join a clan for any games, he would then be preasured to use his power in wrong ways and if he was favoring a certian group of people, the real reason that he comes on is to deal with things that regard him or people that are being dumb little shits ( Like Zak ). He doesn't really benifit that much from GR, it loses him more money than he makes. The only way that he makes money is having companys pay him to get their games included on gameranger, and he has to but the Domain name, The servers etc.

-Typhy

[Grifter]

Typhy, two things....
One, I have no idea what being or not being in a clan has to do with my comments...  All I said was that he could post more news on the web site.  I mean, his servers aren't down, because the web site is up (the usual sign).  So I look there for news... the last post on OS X was a year ago.. the last post in news was 5 months ago....  I know he's a busy man, but how long does it itake to post a message?  or News?  He wants things to be perfect.... why not start with better communications?  I'm not knocking him about his TOS or banning people... just about being rude to me for asking one question and never posting news on his web site.

Second, try to get all your posts in one.... multi posts are spamming.... Use the edit button to add to it if you've already posted.

[Casper]

everyone rembers when GR was down for about 3 days  in one week.

well

??gT? Casper: Evill:  when gameranger went down 3 times in a week was that when you were moveing?

Evill: It was when one user decided to add 1,179 users to their ignore list.


well if you didnt know thats why it went down

[BTs_Mysterio]

Sounds liek somethign i would do when i get bored

[Bondo]

Well, Scott has only made things worse for himself by banning people simply for cussing at him.  That only makes more people frustrated with him.  Sure, he should ban people who do serious things to impact the gaming (causing crashes, hacking GR, etc.) but he should not disallow people the freedom to speech.  He has that power, but by using it he becomes hated and it very well could end GR if he keeps it up as he'll have banned everyone.  Sure, I'm thankful for his incredible contribution to Mac gaming, but I'm not about to think that excuses him to be a prick.

[Brain]

can someone plz explain how adding 1000+ users to the ignore list can crash the whols system
does anyone else see that as a security hole that can be exploited by malicious ppl
one last comment, is the problem fixed now?

[Casper]

its fixed now but mb i read it wrong and he meant he moved when someone did that but ... i dont think so.