A few comments of minor intrest…..
Not being critical of any side, even if it might seem that way.
This is all personal thought created after wandering through bazilions of pubs for years. Take it with a grain of salt.
(imna be using Kuros as my example of a high ranked admin, no offence intended at any point.)
First, When something important like a map change is in question, it is typicaly left to the highest ranked admin on the server on most servers. If Kuros was on, then it makes sence to leave any map changes up to him since hes got the Ultimate Power around here.
Second, When a vote comes up, its almost always a land slide for Yes, regardless of whats being voted on. Go and try it sometime, just make random votes, option one wins 90% of the times. Most folks don’t bother to read the votes or pay attention to em, they just mash buttons.
Third, If the map is totaly debalanced and swapping a few people won’t do, sometimes you can just wait it out and the fortunes of the teams will eventually be reversed through natural causes. However if players really were starting to spec due to the debalance, they should be kicked. There are thousands of other servers out there, and bagillions of other players. Very few of either can be considered unique.
Fourth, An admin arguing with another admin is always a Bad Thing. When in confentation, hand the problem to the highest ranked admin on. They have that rank because of thier skill/fairness/intelligence as an admin and can often solve the problem in a decent manner acceptable to the majority.
Fifth, Admins arguing publicly, whether with another admin or a player, is a Bad Thing. Players should not argue with admins in any case, because on a CS server, admins are pretty much God. Admins and Players, If they do have a problem with an admin private messages are by far the best course of action. No one wants to back down in front of someone publicly and forcing them to do so will create ill will. Don’t hang your dirty laundry in public.
Sixth, Who cares what the majority think? Most of them will be players who are just wandering through. As I said above, players are not hard to come by. Neither are servers.
Seventh, Even though I am making this post in this thread, the thread falls into the dirty laundry category. It probably would have been best to simply private message Kuros or some other high level admin and let them make any nessesary posts. Its like that one Dresden book said. Even if you win over the masses of people, if you *edited* of the one guy with a vote that counts, your still screwed.
I can’t think of anything else, I hope all of this helps, if it dosen’t yall can’t just ignore it as more of my random gibbering.
~Killty-Chan
Edit: Zomg, took too long, gxti stole my thunder.
Edit More: As a thought, why not create a system of support admins. What I mean is you could have people who only have limited admin powers when no Full admin is on. That way you could hand out SA status to regulars, without worrying about them destroying the server, but there would always be some sort of admin on during peak times.