SpawnPoint

As some of you may or may not have known, as of about a week or so ago, I was invited to Spawnpoints Anti-Cheat Task Force. This is something that I have wanted to be in since before I was in DA. Well, the first day that I loaded up Outlook and took a look at my inbox, I was shocked. I had recieved a whooping 48 emails, and a good portion of them were demos. Thats a fair amount more than my typical 4-5. I was excited to get crackn, so I spent the next couple of hours viewing demos, and asking cpnichol about 50 or so questions. There is a lot more to banning people than I though. First you have to watch the demo, sometimes several times, to figure out what hack they are using. Then you have to take their steam ID and check it against the global ban list to see if they are already banned. Third, you must add them to the ban list. After that, you have to send a confirmation email to the person who submit the demo. My CTRL+C and CTRL+V is really taking a beating now. Not to say I don't really enjoy adding punks to the global ban list, but I now have a new appreciation of what all the other Anti Cheat team has done.

cpnichol @ 2007-08-08 11:30:48
Yeah the in box is quite amusing, I just leave it downloading while I have breakfast. I've done 16 today, I'll save the rest for you ;)

alpha69 @ 2007-08-08 12:17:54
Congrats Ghost!
May I look forward to joining you all one day in the endless task of watching demos and determining cheats for the GBL!

keep up the good work guys!

Alpha female

Raven @ 2007-08-08 19:33:10
LOL congratulations Nate (or should that be commiserations lol). I'm sure you'll do a great job with the rest of the guys. Wait till you go on vacation and come back to find 290 emails waiting for you LOL

rigormotis @ 2007-08-18 22:43:33
Just wondering, but would it be possible to volunteer for the ACT (I'd only be able to do Counter Strike Source demos though)?

Streetbum @ 2007-08-18 22:53:45
Rigor, you have to be invited to become a SP staff member, the only positions you may "apply" for other than being a server admin can be found on the "jobs" page.

http://spawnpoint.com/jobs.php

rigormotis @ 2007-08-19 11:56:02
Thanks Streetbum, thats kind of what I thought. Just figured I'd ask though.