Everyone knows I'm not normal, so I try to be lenient on jokes and whatnot. I don't know what has been in the water lately or if the heat is getting to people, but there has been a trend of people acting like ass hats lately. Stop. Get some help.
Everyone has bad days, but lets just try to have fun. This all started with people zapping each other and squealing laughing. Mostly Krazy Boo who was going bonkers. There's over 400 of us now and not 20, so there are going to be inside jokes and other colloquial idioms that are going to be thrown around. If you're having that bad of a day and just need to chill, just leave the mic off and chill, draw a bubble bath, or go for a walk.
This is just an online thing. I'm really lazy. This admin thing is more to the all-stars like speaker and Sam (mostly speaker) who go through profiles and kick people with vac bans/hacking. I liked those days when that was our biggest concern. It's an easy fix.
I hope everyone has a good day (whenever you're reading this) and concludes the goal of giving one person a compliment. You never know what someone is going through, so that one compliment could change their day. Bettering ourselves 1% each day makes us over three and a half times better than when we started a year ago. A 1% effort is not hard to do.


Thanks for reading,
Leo

Zappy--

Hey, it's me: Spec. You know me with the PP-Bizon/Bizon-Heroes/Sam loves dolphins. It's okay, Sam. Spec still loves you like a brother even if you are a known zoophile. Jk, kinda. Anywho. Where was I? Oh yeah, hackers.

This announcement is one part request and another...a huge thank you to Cereal_Killer. You rock, dude. I haven't seen a member kick another for hacking in a while. You did, though.

I posted about this a WHILE ago when I kicked more people from Zappy then I ever have from any steam-group as an admin (I admin for...too many big groups to do this anymore). ALWAYS LOOK FOR GAME AND VAC BANS ON NEW MEMBER PROFILES/IF YOU INVITE A HACKER SPEC WILL CRY.

TL;DR--if you are an admin in this group, Sam has given you permission to *kick people with game or vac bans* from this group. Don't go drunk on power, though. It has happened before.

You don't need to notify him/me/any other admin but point is, you may find like 12 folks with vac bans like I did a few months ago and if you do, just make an announcement about it if you're worried. Actually no, definitely make an announcement because I was bored and went through Zappy and was like 'oh I wonder if Cereal kicked that dude for hacking' AND HE DID. MY MAN.

To end, I ask all admins to do what Cereal Killer did which, is the following occasionally (Sam does ask for this too but he's not so good at the whole 'writing grammatically well' or for an audience thing [we all have our strengths, friends; Sam's is intimate knowledge of the dolphin-anatomy]):

STEP 1: Click on Manage Group Members in the Admin Tools.
STEP 2: Click through steam profiles/pay attention to when people change names because uh, it's a common thing to do when one gets caught red-handed floor-hacking, for example. Look for a game or vac ban near the pfp.
STEP 3: KICK THEM IF THEY HAVE A GAME OR VAC BAN BECAUSE THERE IS A 95-98% CHANCE IT IS FROM CS:GO. That's all.

Seriously, uh, it's *extremely* rare to get a game or vac ban from anything *except* CS:GO even though VAC is used by roughly 100 games/game bans are about 90-95% CS:GO, though (this is actually changing because of Battlebit?). I digress.

ONE LOVE. SPEC OUT. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND AND THANK YOU CEREAL KILLER FOR GIVING THE BIGGEST OF SHEETS <3 (YOU ARE NOW PLAYER OF THE WEEK.).

Please do not re-add Kaneshi to this group. He has been sending inappropriate messages to people and player dissing in private messages. I gave him a fair warning to stop and he chose not to.

Hey guys, it's me: Sammy-boy or Samantha, whatever you wanna call me.

I was having a discussion the other night about Zappy; eg., how it was made, who it was made for and, I just wanted to take this time out to just explain what I had in mind when I founded this group. When I first made Zappy it was already a group of people who just thought it was hilarious to zeus people.

It was just something that made everyone laugh and was/still is enjoyable. THAT'S IT RIGHT THERE. That's the Zappy! origin-story.

All I wanted was a group of players/friends/random people to see the Zappy! tag and just think: 'oh sh!t better watch out for the zeus'!' (IE: check your gd corners). In some ways, one could argue the use of the tazer literally *makes* people better at 'checking every gd corner.'

ZAPPY!, to me, is unlike any group I've seen since I began playing CS:GO. I think that's because we open up to anyone and, sure; with almost 400 people your gonna have bad eggs/assholes/cheaters.

It's inevitable no matter how strict a clan is or its size, even in Spec's new-and-growing-group (he's editing this as you read) spec's kicked exactly one cheater from Bizon Heroes and recently 12 from Zappy! (Bizon Heroes is the group he founded and it's invite-only).

Point is: Spec's editing this for Sam and uh, as I write this I want to add: as of 2/27/23, not a single person with a game or VAC ban is a member in this group, I check *EVERY* profile. This is why Sam lets me...copy-edit/be our IA. I'm...a legal-assistant. Back to Zappy!. The rest is 99.9% *not spec.*

In this way, for all the terrible people that join--there's 5 others that I love playing with. I just wanted a group that's purpose was simple, if anyone wanted to come and go that's fine. Join our group for the reason that everyone is so friendly. The proof of this is that our members always make some new friends along the way.

Having ELECTRIC KISSES in your profile doesn't matter to me whether you come or go, I AM still your friend always and wanna play/have fun no matter what. Not everyone is gonna see eye to eye BUT just remember it's just a game. This is, of course, the Internet. And to end, that's it! I just wanted to get that off my chest. To all of Zappy!: the ones that were there from the start and to the ones that joined and stuck around for years, thank you.

Last but not least: cheers to future and new members alike.

I hope we'll always be the clan that will try and get along but, sometimes, well: it doesn't always work. I just hope you have FUN! Why do you think I say 'first kill zeus kill?' Answer: IT'S FUN.

ALWAYS BUYING A ZEUS IS ALSO FUN BECAUSE...EVEN IF YOU DIE, SOMEONE WILL GET THE ZEUS. That's the Zappy! creed: it's not *always use the zeus.* Give it to me instead. That's all I've got but thanks again for all our active members/admins/mods. This group is technically private but I do ask that before inviting members, always make sure...they don't *already* have some kind of red-flag on their profile (see above).

This is SaM^_-MHhm, signing off to go do Sam things.

AS ALWAYS, "GREAT JOB!"-- (and) THEY CALL ME ZADDY.

Hey folks. It's me, Spec.

How're you? Me? I've got four-days-off and I'm about to learn you something fierce. I'm not only Zappy's copy-editor, I'm also our self-appointed IA investigator. I'm also the only one doing this rn but if you're an admin: you have the credentials to do this job and if you like doing Overwatch, please help your boy out. It's even easier. All you need is eyes and a desire to keep Zappy...pure.

Sit down, relax, and prepare to be like 'damn Spec, you took one for the team.' Or something like that, I don't know. I did good. So, to that end, this will be a...long post. I make no apologies. We brought this on ourselves. You may cry but I'll be damned: you're going to be impressed by how thorough I am/was.

To break the ice, let's talk about our creator. Sammy. We love to hate him and hate to love him. He's a rascal. He's our rascal. He's also on the same-page as me on this so, heed my words. This is 'Zaddy approved' and I hate calling him by that but he gets one 'zaddy' in this diatribe. Okay, two. But first...EAGLES SOAR OR WHATEVER. GO BIRDS.

Anywho. Admin responsibility time. This one hurt, fellow zappers.

Here's the TL;DR--I kicked almost a dozen hackers from Zappy and, if you're an admin, I ask you to please occasionally look at older *member* profiles as we go forward because as of today, we do not have a single member/admin/mod with any-form of ban on their Steam-account.

Here's the IA rule if you ever want to help your friendly neighborhood IA officer out: step 1, look at person's profile. You cannot hide bans even if everything is private. Step 2, kick them without hesitation but shake your head in sadness. Step 3, report it to Sam or me. To whomever you like more, we'll say. You only should do this if you pull a spec and somehow find 12 hackers in one go because I'm not drunk on power.

Please know that I took no pleasure from this and I distinctly remember at least three of these CS:GO players. I was actually friends with exactly one of them before I un-added them for reasons I forget because I smoke too much ganja. Or not enough, perhaps.

All of these players had a VAC-ban, game ban, combination of the two, or for a few, multiple of either. Check for yourself. I triple-checked before kicking anyone.

"How'd you know where to look?" Answer: I didn't. I looked at *every* member profile. Yeah. Seriously. Child's play. Took me under 30 minutes. I knew 'when' to look. I'm not surprised that before I did anything, we lacked a single mod/admin with a ban (thank you for not cheating). I'm proud of that but Sam gets credit for that one because he's got an eye for talent. As for spec, I've got the eye for details.

Here's how I did my thing. **Skip to the end if you don't care or haven't read a book in so long you forget what ink on a page smells like.**

Occasionally, Valve does a retroactive ban-wave where a game/VAC ban that was issued, say, over a hundred days ago magically/finally appears on someone's profile eons later. If you don't believe me, Google it. It's an issue.

Sometimes, a CS:GO related-ban is issued much faster; especially with VAC/spikes in profile reports/in-game reports but...let's just say even with more Overwatch cases being seen...Overwatch wouldn't exist if VAC alone *prevented* cheaters and it obviously has no bearing on casual players/any other official non-comp-server. It...discourages cheating, at least, directly with files native to the game and only in comp. Game-bans are always directly from developers of games. VAC bans are...from VAC. Wow, I explained that real-good.

TL;DR--a VAC ban almost always (over 99% of the time) means a person was cheating/using cheats in-game in an official-server.

This applies to all games where such bans exist (100 on steam, roughly).

Game-bans used to be rarer than VAC bans in CS:GO and still are but, from my research; Valve's apparently starting to care or whatever. Good for them. They're on the rise. Side note: both forms of ban are equally worthy of getting kicked from this group. They're equally bad, objectively.

"But what if they got banned from a game that's not CS:GO?" Yeah, yeah. Defend the hacker who didn't hack in a game you don't play, why don't you.

"How do you know the VAC-ban was associated with our favorite game we love to hate to love?" Yep, someone's thinking this one. Don't worry. I gotchu. I think the second question is more valid until you see the statistic below (neither are).

These are ultimately fair questions, dear friends. They also only have one answer. Cheaters aren't fair. These numbers don't lie.

The vast majority of ALL bans you see on Steam (as of November 2022 according to one source, 95% of ALL bans on this client) are from...CS:GO. One-game. To put it another way, if a person has a ban on their account, there is a very, very small chance it was *not* from counterstrike. Even Source still issues VAC/Game-Bans. That's a waste of resources but, I'm better than Valve. I'm spec. Fact check me but, you're wasting your time because I triple check everything I say in any official capacity.

Let's wrap this up, I definitely put someone to sleep. Sorry, not sorry. Here's the end.

ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT HACKERS FROM REMAINING/BEING ACCEPTED INTO ZAPPY, MY FELLOW ADMINS AND MODS. IT'S LIKE PREVENTING FOREST FIRES!

This has been a public service message from the O.G. Bizon Hero: Spec. One love. Don't forget to comb your hair, always buy a zeus, and never cheat in CS:GO because you're better than that.

Spec out.