[blackmajor] - Ewayn - RP - For memeing
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:47 pm
BYOND account and character name: Erayn / "Richard Cumsquat"
Banning admin: blackmajor?
Ban type/duration (where you are banned from and for how long): RP/Permo?
Ban reason: Player name "Richard Cumsquat" acting out as your typical ebin griefer during the late hours of the night where no admins were on. We don't need that kinda wacky behaviour here..
Your side of the story: It was 5 AM, I was tired and bored and a new round had just started with borderline 0 players at first (and at the point I first started to meme on my throwaway joke character) and everyone was attempting to get the engine running so the AI around at the time could actually survive and people could see. I personally got frustrated with rapidly failing attempts and left as my much more serious character, "Makaia Quirin" and opted to very quickly change to a roboticist so I could give our one borg a reset module so he could do the engineering work instead of guiding lost players through the process. I specifically went out of my way to choose Richard because I didn't really want people thinking I wanted to stick around and RP as my more known robotics character "Naomi Reed" and didn't have time to create a serious throwaway. The entire time we were going through the process of attempting to set the engine I was in a VC with my boyfriend (the aforementioned borg) and we were joking around and laughing and dumb things from Clown memes to how irritating the engine was to set up when desperate to try and stop a blackout. This inevitably lead to me trying to make him laugh with my dumb joke character, saying stupid, immature things because it was funny, pretending to be some demented pokemon by screaming "Cumsquat!" out loud and occasionally over the radio. I had assumed at the time that if people were actually bothered by some early morning dead hour memeing that they'd show their age and step up and just directly say "Hey, please stop, you're being a dink and I don't want to see you being stupid" in which case I would have quite happily.
I'm working off the assumption staff have watched the video uploaded of roughly half of my time as the character in question and witnessed me trying to murder a borg around half way through. My only defense to that is: It was my boyfriend and we were both laughing. Literally nothing else was hurt or damaged and he and I both left when we'd deemed it enough for the night. If by chance staff haven't seen the video in question? RoyalDerg'll happily provide it, I'm sure. I don't believe I would have their consent to publicly post their video here as they may not want that sort of attention. I will leave that much to staff to work out.
Why you think you should be unbanned: I've been playing here for a little while now. More than long enough for you to know I'm not malicious and for the most part I think people you ask will be able to tell you that, with a few exceptions in people who refuse to tolerate any rude behaviour from characters from time to time. Frankly I'm somewhat disturbed by the fact that all good will and any form of "Hey, we know you're not just a troll!" immediately goes out the window the second you have some slightly off-brand fun at nobody's expense but your own. Even more so than that that no staff bothered to talk to me directly which to me at least seems like a pretty universal thing that should go down if the option is there. I've never seen a community before just ban someone with zero communication attempts, really and it's somewhat astounding. It has left me not entirely sure how to properly express my surprise. If being known to not be a malicious troll isn't good enough to be unbanned for one apparently very bad act? I guess I'll see you later. But it'd be preeeetty cool if we could get past this and move on with our lives because sure, yeah, "Richard Cumsquat" isn't exactly appropriate but I genuinely don't think I caused anyone any harm. Additionally? If you have seen the video uploaded you will see there was in fact a staff member online. I had seen that and assumed that if they truly thought I was going too far they'd have punished me then and there. Turns out they were AFK? Evidence if the video hasn't been watched will be provided below.
Side notes/references: Your automated "appeal here" link when banning someone goes nowhere. Please fix that.
Reference to the link so you know I'm not memeing
A screenshot from the uploaded video with all possible identification on the uploader's end kept out of view as to respect privacy. Screenshot demonstrating an online headmin. Or at least what I thought was one.
Banning admin: blackmajor?
Ban type/duration (where you are banned from and for how long): RP/Permo?
Ban reason: Player name "Richard Cumsquat" acting out as your typical ebin griefer during the late hours of the night where no admins were on. We don't need that kinda wacky behaviour here..
Your side of the story: It was 5 AM, I was tired and bored and a new round had just started with borderline 0 players at first (and at the point I first started to meme on my throwaway joke character) and everyone was attempting to get the engine running so the AI around at the time could actually survive and people could see. I personally got frustrated with rapidly failing attempts and left as my much more serious character, "Makaia Quirin" and opted to very quickly change to a roboticist so I could give our one borg a reset module so he could do the engineering work instead of guiding lost players through the process. I specifically went out of my way to choose Richard because I didn't really want people thinking I wanted to stick around and RP as my more known robotics character "Naomi Reed" and didn't have time to create a serious throwaway. The entire time we were going through the process of attempting to set the engine I was in a VC with my boyfriend (the aforementioned borg) and we were joking around and laughing and dumb things from Clown memes to how irritating the engine was to set up when desperate to try and stop a blackout. This inevitably lead to me trying to make him laugh with my dumb joke character, saying stupid, immature things because it was funny, pretending to be some demented pokemon by screaming "Cumsquat!" out loud and occasionally over the radio. I had assumed at the time that if people were actually bothered by some early morning dead hour memeing that they'd show their age and step up and just directly say "Hey, please stop, you're being a dink and I don't want to see you being stupid" in which case I would have quite happily.
I'm working off the assumption staff have watched the video uploaded of roughly half of my time as the character in question and witnessed me trying to murder a borg around half way through. My only defense to that is: It was my boyfriend and we were both laughing. Literally nothing else was hurt or damaged and he and I both left when we'd deemed it enough for the night. If by chance staff haven't seen the video in question? RoyalDerg'll happily provide it, I'm sure. I don't believe I would have their consent to publicly post their video here as they may not want that sort of attention. I will leave that much to staff to work out.
Why you think you should be unbanned: I've been playing here for a little while now. More than long enough for you to know I'm not malicious and for the most part I think people you ask will be able to tell you that, with a few exceptions in people who refuse to tolerate any rude behaviour from characters from time to time. Frankly I'm somewhat disturbed by the fact that all good will and any form of "Hey, we know you're not just a troll!" immediately goes out the window the second you have some slightly off-brand fun at nobody's expense but your own. Even more so than that that no staff bothered to talk to me directly which to me at least seems like a pretty universal thing that should go down if the option is there. I've never seen a community before just ban someone with zero communication attempts, really and it's somewhat astounding. It has left me not entirely sure how to properly express my surprise. If being known to not be a malicious troll isn't good enough to be unbanned for one apparently very bad act? I guess I'll see you later. But it'd be preeeetty cool if we could get past this and move on with our lives because sure, yeah, "Richard Cumsquat" isn't exactly appropriate but I genuinely don't think I caused anyone any harm. Additionally? If you have seen the video uploaded you will see there was in fact a staff member online. I had seen that and assumed that if they truly thought I was going too far they'd have punished me then and there. Turns out they were AFK? Evidence if the video hasn't been watched will be provided below.
Side notes/references: Your automated "appeal here" link when banning someone goes nowhere. Please fix that.
Reference to the link so you know I'm not memeing
A screenshot from the uploaded video with all possible identification on the uploader's end kept out of view as to respect privacy. Screenshot demonstrating an online headmin. Or at least what I thought was one.