Hello Thranos,
I am the banning admin in question, strange that my first ban appeal wasn't even under my own name but when you don't ban people a lot I guess that's normal. That said, I'm here to explain the events in question to you so you know what fully happened and give my side a little bit that way this doesn't seem cockeyed on my part because in all honesty reading over this there's a lot of context that's missing.
To begin, there's rules in effect that have been in long-standing over this sort of content prior to it ever being posted in the discord to begin with. In our #Announcements section of our discord server we posted a clarification and explanation as to why exactly this is disallowed content.
Posting videos of animal cruelty is a direct violation of both Discord TOS and our own posted Discord server rules. That being Citadel Discord Rule #6, and further, in this current context, memes Rule #0. This alert represents a Final Warning for everyone on the server. Going forward, violating the stated rules will result in revocation of your ability to post in memes, nsfw, etc. at the very least.
So, while the images are questionably so, they do fall under this rule. Prior to you even being pulled into the ticket we'd been having an internal debate over the topic for a moment or so pending which images qualified as disallowed. It's one of those topics we personally feel need a strong boundary in order to not have them be breached in order to keep our server open due to Discord's Terms of Service policy. In order to campaign against people breaching said rules we have to contact them in a professional manner and pull them into a ticket in order to alert them of the situation at hand and inform them that this is, indeed, disallowed content and is something we do not want posted on our server.
From there, I'd like to explain my side of our ticket and what I was given to work with as per me doing my job and simply telling you not to post this content as it is entirely dire for me to do in order to fully elaborate on the
why that you were banned.
When I pulled you into the ticket to discuss the matter at hand, immediately you started spouting off with belligerence and fully ignoring the request for peaceful and normal communication I had tried to get you to adhere to. I can remember one of the quotes being something to the tune of
"Do you have fucking brain worms??" From there, I requested council from my peers on how to handle the situation, and I had suggested just simply banning you due to your lack of coherence in the ticket.
I don't react well to being accused of awful things like that, and seeing as how the admin in question went at it in such an accusatory moral high-ground manner, I just started shitposting rather than give them and their accusation even the slightest amount of respect.
We don't react well to people breaking the rules in our server and then getting mad and belligerent when told to knock it off. I wasn't even coming at you in a 'moral high-ground manner', I was confronting you as a peer telling you not to post something as it goes against the rules in our server. Instead of remaining fair and coherent, you began hurling insults at me like a toddler being told it can't draw on the walls.
From there, I consulted with my peers, and we decided that you had basically had full well shown how toxic of a person you were that we booted you out of the discord. That
I had banned you from the discord.
Reading over your ticket, however, I can't help but need to reassure you that if you get unbanned and come back in with the same mindset doing the same things over again, we will have to step back in and reinstate your server ban. We can't have people running around posting images that constitute both a rule violation AND a discord terms of service violation and then acting in sheer belligerence as you have prior. That is unacceptable on this platform, and we do not appreciate having to deal with people acting as such. You need to remember that there's people behind the screen, and think in a bit more good faith than thinking that I'm out here trying to be holier than thou when I'm simply trying to get you to refrain from breaking rules.
If you personally feel affected by this ruling in such a way that you believe that it's required to have the ruling looked over by a member of staff, please contact a head admin and consult with them over the ruling rather than take it out on a random admin unrelated to the ruling itself. I didn't make the rules, the head admins did, and I'm doing my job in enforcing them to make sure the community isn't constantly teetering on the brink of Terms of Service violations getting our
PUBLIC DISCORD SERVER deleted off the client.
You acted in more than bad faith that day, I'm sorry that I had to ban you, but the way you reacted to me confronting you basically warranted the ban at the time. If you're intent on coming back in and being more than fair when this sort of thing happens then I'm not going to deny you the right to return to the community, however, If you go out of your way to do this sort of thing again then it's no doubt similar will come of the the events of the last time. It's how you handled yourself in that situation, to reiterate, is what got you banned.
That said, I have to apologize if I genuinely came off to you as if I were trying to have a moral high ground. That was far from my intent, and if it read off as such then I genuinely do want to apologize and inform you that I didn't intend to come off that way on purpose. Again, I want to ensure this community is a safe and well place to be in, and at the time I was filling my role.
So, with that, I hope you understand the situation a little better at least from my perspective, and can think over it for the better as I feel it would probably be beneficial for the status of your ban, the situation, and how to react in the future to issues as such.
Thank you for coming through to the appeals board and making your appeal,
~Jay