Won QSmack just make it easier for admins to abuse players?
If the admin is likely to do that, and knows enough about the server to use QSmack, he/she will already have in place many other methods for cheating and giving players grief. It is true, however, that QSmack raises the bar by adding the capability for banning, which admins can abuse. But “bad seed” admins seem to be in far shorter supply than the type of disruptive player that QSmack banning is aimed at. Admins may have different tolerances for how much crap they are willing to take, but the large majority of them will leave you to play in peace if you don’t shovel any crap at all. For those few that will kick or ban you arbitrarily, or because you outscored them, or for whatever bogus reason: just don’t go back to their server. Bad admins are localized, and easy to avoid. Bad players are another thing entirely. If you’re hesitant about playing on a QSmack-monitored server, think about this: QuakeWorld server admins have as much IP banning power as Quake server admins using QSmack. As
