Interesting.
Well, no disrespect to you or anyone here. It was probably 11 years ago when I had a bunch of demos to submit and I chose the first one, which I felt would be a slam dunk ban, but may in fact never have been reviewed at all. I had to use
fog_enable 0 to see what this guy was doing and sure enough he was perfectly scoping on enemies through the fog and he didn't have admin rights to enable cheats on the server.
I'm not confusing VAC with SB. Many of my server bans on [=1=] were VAC banned much later. As they say, it is a delayed ban system.
In the old Steam forums I was quite active in the DOD:S section regarding sv_pure and the server whitelist. I'm also very knowledgeable about mapping and modeling and scripting for SourceMod. My brother and I wrote a script (v2), which we have never uploaded to SourceMod that enables servers to
allow custom models, objective icons, weapon models (world/view), and much more, all without the restraint to
force players to download anything. It is an optional download, if you chose to allow a download, separately. This contrasts with all the popular model changing scripts and is
much more efficient, server-wise. In fact, it's the same way Steam does it. The only caveat about it is that you have to ensure, beyond ANY doubt, that the person who
signs the prepared .vpk files is trust worthy enough to not use it maliciously. Because this person has the master key and
could create any custom files they wanted, which would be allowed for whomever had them.