I was playing in Vodou's Bokor today where I encountered a very odd episode of admin abuse. I had become ZM in redqueen when, with absolutely no provocation or warning whatsoever, an admin froze me. I wasn't sure why, but I found out quickly that once the ZM is unfrozen, he loses his noclipping ability and essentially becomes a normal player. The admin froze me while I was over the pit trap, so I fell to the bottom and became stuck there for the entire round.

I was not particularly pleased to have had my ZM opportunity completely robbed for no reason, so I tried asking the admins why I had just been totally screwed over. I received no response from them at all, not even to my question of whether any admins were present, although they did continue to use admin commands in my presence. The names of the two people playing with the GameSyn tag were Zeddy and splatt.

This whole ordeal was a surprise for me as I had no idea what provoked it. I had been playing for several hours beforehand without the slightest incident when suddenly I alone was penalized in the most detrimental manner possible. We had already played a round or two in redqueen with no problems, so I know the admin's actions were deliberately targeted at me.

Just by sheer coincidence, I happened to have recorded a demo of the event. I captured the full round of which I was ZM and a few minutes of the next round covering my attempts to learn why I had been frozen. Additionally, I also captured an RTV poll that was unceremoniously cancelled by an admin with no explanation:
http://home.comcast.net/~pudmonkey1/gamesyn_adminabuse.rar

I don't know what repercussions this might entail, but I do believe I am demonstrating a very blatant display of admin abuse. However, if this is typical and/or accepted admin behavior, then please ignore this message. I can't claim to be very familiar with the normal proceedings on GameSyn's servers as I don't play there that often. I have no intention returning either, so you won't have to be concerned with that.

I only froze you, and you didn't seem to fall in the pit, as spawns were still activated later on. The rtv pole was splatt, who said he liked the map and was going to cancel the pole.
The reason I froze you is because you were trying to block the spawn door with hidden spawns. I know I told splatt why, and I am fairly positive I told you and that even splatt told you. You had been good up until that point, and I had no problems after that. If you weren't trying to block the door, then it was just a misunderstanding. But I am fairly certain that I told you after telling splatt, and I told him to tell you as well. I'll check the demo later and see though. I am also sorry that you fell in the pit, since I didn't know that it caused the ZM to lose that effect.
I apologize for this no matter what, and hope that we will see you again in the server.

Mr-Nasty says

According to Zeddy, you were frozen for trying to block the spawn area of the survivors and zombies were still spawned according to him. And he also said he replied to you when you asked why.

Stopping the door from opening at the beginning of redqueen with hidden spawns is considered game exploitation:

asceth says

3. No server/mod/plugin/map exploitation. This includes team killing and blocking.

Consequences
- Warn (once in normal chat, next in csay)
- Slay (if applicable)
- Kick
- Temporary Ban (no more than a day)
- Permanent Ban

OFF TOPIC:

weedman says

warning the bind mess up your binds

Huh?

(Reached character limit, splitting into different posts)

I know I told splatt why, and I am fairly positive I told you and that even splatt told you.

I was never informed of anything even after repeatedly asking again and again and again. Check the demo. I had no one muted and I was not experiencing the mic bug. I could read text messages from both admins just fine and everyone else could read my text messages without issue.

I can verify for certain you said nothing to me, but you say that Splatt also told me. I double checked the demo, and Splatt said exactly three things which I can fully transcribe here:
GameSyn.com | splatt: i can block immo spawn its kool
GameSyn.com | splatt: no shit sherlock
GameSyn.com | splatt: 5 ppl awesome

None of this is obviously relevant to my situation. This was all taken from a console dump after playing my demo. Just for reference, I could even provide you with everything I said just to confirm that Splatt's chat messages were not in response to me.

splatt says

Stopping the door from opening at the beginning of redqueen with hidden spawns is considered game exploitation:

Again, 100% impossible. Where did the idea for this exploit come from? Did you just make it up on the spot? You can't stop the spawn door in redqueen from opening with hidden spawns, not that I even attemped such.

asceth says

Consequences
- Warn (once in normal chat, next in csay)
- Slay (if applicable)
- Kick
- Temporary Ban (no more than a day)
- Permanent Ban

Again, I was never warned, neither in chat nor csay. Freezing doesn't seem to be a listed consequence, incidentally.

Admins have been stripped of power until the situation is resolved. I will personally look into the demo today.

* Hidden spawns are not considered game exploitation unless they are specifically used to block players from advancing by trapping a door/etc then its map exploitation and falls under the general rule of exploitation. But just using what the game gave you isn't exploitation.

Major_Casualtie says

All the problems would have been solved with that simple console command.

Probably didn't want to sacrifice his round of ZM.