There is nothing wrong with playing opposite your friends. I'm saying there is something wrong with banning those that don't want to. I'm saying we shouldn't ban people for wanting to play with the stack instead of against it when we the subscribers are the ones creating it. I'm just asking the staff to rethink this a little. With the subscription system in place the message you will eventually send is: Subscribe or be banned.
I just see no difference in going spec to stay on the team you want vs. being immune to auto balance and being able to be on the team you want at any time. Specifically when you have a person who goes spec and it is impossible for the admins to know if that person joined spectator or if the server put them there for being AFK (which subscribers are not immune to). Essentially I could be playing under a different name and be banned for being AFK after the server put me in spec and I came back to join a team. Then I'd be banned for supposedly trying to stay on one team when I could have joined it since I'm a subscriber.
Nobody likes having someone in power threatening people ingame. I'd prefer to listen to horrible quality techno music someone is playing with HLSS than to listen to an admin threaten every tom, dick, and harry that went spec for any reason. It gets down to the point that I just want to say: "Hey we get it you are an admin. Ban the hackers and let me play my game."
Admins can't be on all the time. I'd prefer you guys do one thing above all things when you are around: Have fun and play. People don't enjoy admins interfering with their gameplay when they themselves have done nothing wrong. Earlier (and I assume this was an admin) we were on granary and each time the round time limit was about to expire we would get a magical 1:00 added. To me this was far more obnoxious to deal with than a player who chose to go spectator.