With All due respect to Stryker, him and I have discussed this. Stryker was not sure how the bans work with regards to hacking as he has never adminned before. I explained that anyone in the server can voteban a player which lasts only one hour but when it comes to reporting hackers and the admins actually taking action using various admins tools like Procon/Rcon, the bans last until they are lifted. I also explained that with hackers there are usually NO second chances. Server owners and admins have no patience for these idiots because they become a babysitting nightmare and complaints just keep coming. If you check with almost every server out there, there is no such thing as a first offense/warning etc when it comes to hacking. The warning is in the chat box and in the server info page when you join. So in these two cases we have 2 known hackers pleading their case with nothing more than; "I'm better than you. You suck and check out my amazing videos where I go 24-0 before getting kicked." I mean like I *might* be able to do that in the AA but seldom do. Put me in another vehicle or on the ground and it's like night and day. These guys can come into a server midway through the round and get those kind of kill streaks whether they are in a vehicle or on foot. To those that have adminned before and know what to look for it's obvious they are using cheats. Stryker has a good heart and because he is in a tank 99.9% of the time so he is not really on the receiving end of Pinkos *stellar* abilities but many of the R6V guys have and know a lot of his skills are BS. That is what prompted me to report him to AARP.
In my 13 years of playing and adminning Battlefield 2, 3 and 4 I have yet to meet a hacker that has gone back to fully legit. Quite the opposite. On many occasions I have witnessed hackers given a second chance by admins which has led to arguments, divisions in the clan and members leaving out of frustration and anger along with regular pubbers moving onto other servers. VI is a prime example of this. The server was well known for harboring hackers and was well populated 24/7. People would report and complain about the hackers in the VI forums and get replies like "You don't know game mechanics" and basically brush them off. It led to many regular pubbers leaving for other servers and populating them meanwhile VI thrived as a hacker server and would often go full tilt even at 3 in the morning but go in there at that time and all you'd see is foreign players with "AMAZING SKILLZ". A few years later we learned that many of the admins were themselves hacking and are now either out of the clan or just don't hang around anymore. Today VI is a better server but is not always as full as it used to be which is a testament in itself to the damage that hackers can impose when you let them run rampant.
AARP is a great clan with a a well run server. Don't want to see that happen here.