consistency

[sosl]

This is great, I'll agree with you and say again that I hope that there will be some consistency.

[Bane of Soldiers]

Try bringing up the fact that another player is laggy. I don't know what you'd say in your defense because you may actually be lagging, but if you want consistency for all players, you might have to slip mention to an admin. Admins don't do anything about things that they aren't aware of. Someone could be lagging a whole storm but won't be warned if no one complains about it/the admin sees it.

[What]

I have seen most people base the kicks on lag issues, whether you are lagging or causing others to lag. I have seen people play with 300 ping and cause no issues for themselves or others, while some people with pings in the 100's lag like mother fuckers. When an admin is made aware of an issue, they usually handle it, one way or the other.

[jwtemp]

Seconded and carried - enforcing rules is an admin's privilege and not their responsibility. If someone has a ping over 200, it's admin's discretion to kick them (generally spurred by someone saying 'That guy is lagging hard,' followed by an admin watching them and then carrying out the kick/ban). If your ping is under 200 but you're doing as others suggested, lagging to the point of warping or skipping and being impossible to shoot, you're also going to get kicked.

Keep in mind, admin is a paid service on IBIS. There's not going to be consistency because everyone who pays for the rights to admin is going to use and enforce their admin differently (this DOES NOT mean they make the rules - but whether they enforce the rules or not, and which they enforce, is totally up to them). What you're asking for is a complete rewrite of the admin function's role, duties and responsibilities and simply put, that isn't likely to happen.

If you find you're being kicked/banned unjustly, however, by a specific admin, there's an entire forum subsection devoted to admin abuse. Get the evidence by downloading the demo from one of the FTP servers and pop a thread up. I guarantee it will be promptly and justly handled.