Ok so this is just my 2 cents on what i see going on, it's kind of getting old to me and i'm hoping that you will take this one suggestion into consideration.
We talk about this 100s of times but nothing seems to change, what I am talking about is the respected. AKA respectards

My suggestion for you is to let the admins decide who gets respected and to delete the intro section as a whole, or maybe that section is just to get into the steam group.
The main issue that I have with respectards is getting randomly banned and kicked for doing absolutely nothing wrong.
I am just so tired of minges getting respected, there are better ways of dealing with this issue and i hope you look into this.

examples:
Yesterday as you may have noticed in the report section, i was banned for shooting a breakable door in fort.
Yesterday I was kicked for breaking the bridge and standing on one of the pegs in deathtrap.
I have been kicked many times on deathlab for breaking the bridge and standing on the peg so the bridge won't come across.


-Carp

PlanB.
Introduce VIP. Buff respected a bit. Only able to votekick or somthing.
So true man. There are alot of power abusers right now. Not even fun anymore. Gmod is all about fun. Its killing it man.
Always a sense of competition. "Im better then you". Not cool anymore.

Thanks for your input Xrain, all i ask for is a simple solution to reduce respected minges.
The admins on the server seem to approve every single respected application without even knowing the person.

The elite zs players tend to get banned more than others and it is kind of getting old, the other day pyrokenesis was banned because he was doing so well and was falsely accused of having an aimbot.

I could easily list 10 minge respected off of the top of my head, this is too many, and i dont think that any new classes should be introduced between guest and respected, or between respected and admin. I think there is a very simple solution to this and that is by the admins selecting long term players who are responsible and respectful, and who don't minge.

Thanks for your input Xrain, all i ask for is a simple solution to reduce respected minges.
The admins on the server seem to approve every single respected application without even knowing the person.

The elite zs players tend to get banned more than others and it is kind of getting old, the other day pyrokenesis was banned because he was doing so well and was falsely accused of having an aimbot.

I could easily list 10 minge respected off of the top of my head, this is too many, and i dont think that any new classes should be introduced between guest and respected, or between respected and admin. I think there is a very simple solution to this and that is by the admins selecting long term players who are responsible and respectful, and who don't minge.

Perfect.

Thanks for your input Xrain, all i ask for is a simple solution to reduce respected minges.
The admins on the server seem to approve every single respected application without even knowing the person.

The elite zs players tend to get banned more than others and it is kind of getting old, the other day pyrokenesis was banned because he was doing so well and was falsely accused of having an aimbot.

I could easily list 10 minge respected off of the top of my head, this is too many, and i dont think that any new classes should be introduced between guest and respected, or between respected and admin. I think there is a very simple solution to this and that is by the admins selecting long term players who are responsible and respectful, and who don't minge.

Your right, we do approve almost all the respected applications.

That is because currently, the main qualifications for becoming a respected user is, to A. Take the time to register on the forums and B. Put a reasonable amount of effort into the respected application.

This system's has a few purposes in mind. The first was to mitigate minging, by restricting tools that can easily be abused, such as the stacker and the Adv Dupe. The second was to help build a community for the servers. The respected system was never meant to be choosy, its only main filter was weather or not the person put the time to actually create an application. Which despite what you might think, was actually quite effective.

The issues start to crop up with the fact that we have administration abilities tied to a system that isn't choosy.

It wouldn't be fair in the least to start to become exclusive in who we choose to become respected at the moment. Because in the build servers, critical tools are tied to being repected. So who the hell would play in our build servers if only a couple people can actually use the tools. If all we had were the zs, and flood servers, then yes! definitely start clearing out the respected lists.

So this is why I suggested to make a "regular" member group. So we have something to take over the job of some of the duties of the respected system. In reality, the ability for a respected user to votekick/ban isn't even a primary purpose.

So then we have one group to handle the community building and drive-by minge filtering. And a second group to aid in administration. This would allow us to immediately un-respect anyone who starts minging with his vote abilities.

So that way, if a regular user, earns the community's "respect" *cough *cough, he/she then can become respected.

It's tough to find a "simple" solution for something that has widespread effects. Think about the prohibition, they thought it was a simple solution to reduce the problems associated with drinking. And all it really did was cause a huge mess of problems.

what might be better is logging the votekicks/bans to a file with a case number and require a reason for them. This way a bannie could report the vote and if it is unjust we could quickly demote then initiator and everyone who voted yes.

what 1% am i missing?