I attempted to connect to SGC Panda's Survival Spankage (L4D2) and it had 0/4 players in. I got an error message that I was disconnected for "trying to connect too quickly" and in the console logs it kept saying "Banned from server" even though I only tried to connect once. If I am actually banned, why? If not, what would cause the nature of this kind of error?

I tried to reconnect again about 40 minutes later and I got in perfectly fine. I'm puzzled at the server responses I got in my console though; if a server admin could give some insight to it, that would be great.

Sometimes when you join you get kicked by load stucker and it will cause that. It's a plug-in in we use on the server that kicks players that take too long to join. There are no bans for you, so no worries.

Ah, I wasn't aware that is what the client experiences when that occurs; this has never happened before to me. Thanks for clearing that up Panda.

Off topic:
Speaking of plugins, how is that "save fort" plugin coming? I'd love to start saving the forts I make.

I will check and see how that was flagged. If it is admin only or not and get back with you.