Banned for 20 on MOB Barbarossa Options

[Meaty Portion]

Hello,



You might know me from your many wonderful base 24x7 maps that you run. I enjoy playing on them and encouraged my fellow Dead Presidents guild members to join on Barbarossa tonight (3Dec). When we were joining the server we auto-assigned as we usually do to avoid clan-stacking. At this point we had 3 DPs on Axis and 2 on allies. After a bit one of our DPs, V1X3N, was kicked and banned for 20 minutes (admin decision). I figured that this was a Punkbuster error and asked the server admins if they could unban her. When I did I was tersely told by MOB GOOSEDOWN that she was kicked because she was spying for the rest of us on the Axis. I said that that was not true and could he please unban her. After some bickering, during which GOOSEDOWN kicked two more of my clan (exile, Prof.Teabagger) to prove "WHOS IN CHARGE" I said I would post on your forums. I told him twice that I considered his behavior to be insulting to not only myself but also my clan and he kept repeating "WHOS IN CHARGE" and "ILL SHOW U". I realize that as an admin you must have absolute control over the server. We have one ourselves and have had to deal with the odd kick/ban. However we try to deal respectfully with cheaters, when they present themselves, and do NOT ban/kick someone for cheating without proof. This galls me the most because I thoroughly enjoy your base servers and have always been treated well by everyone on there. I would appreciate a response and explanation regarding this matter.



Thank you in advance for your cooperation.



[DP]Meaty Portion

[Bargod]

All I know about this is what I've read here, but I've never known Goose to kick somebody for no reason and he isn't a "kick happy" type of person. Let's move on. It seems like there was no ban, right? Just a basic kick? If she was afk that was reason enough for the kick.
Also, Goose has a very, very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. That also may be involved. Playing with him the other day he thought I was offeneded by something he said. I wasn't at all. I get his humor. But when I told him I was jumping up and down on his (virtual) corpse after I killed him, and he then came back in a jeep to find I was indeed doing that, he thought some of his previous comments to me might have offended me and appologized. I explained to him that I was not offended and in the last moments of the round I was actually being quite literal.
So, as I've discovered to be true many times in my experience with online gaming, much is lost through reading things online. Often somebody makes a joke and another person misunderstands the joke and is offended. This creates a situation where joking can become hostile.
I think our most basic of kicks, which is 20 minutes, says that Goose didn't think that big of a foul was commited. Let's just move on.
I'll probably talk to Goose tomorrow on vent. I'll let him know about this. He doesn't spend much time in the forums. He pretty much sticks to Barb. I doubt there are many players that have logged more hours on that map.