Forum Name: Super Aggro Crag
Ban type:Forum
Ban length: 1 Day
Ban reason: Rule 12. Bigotry is not allowed. Intentionally seeking to demean others due to their actual or perceived race, sex, gender, orientation or the like is not tolerated.
Time ban was placed: Not sure since the forum constantly changes times depending on what zone you are in. I think it was around 2:00 pm EST?
Server you were playing on when banned: Off Topic Forum
Round ID in which ban was placed: Not applicable.
Your side of the story: I stumbled upon a peanut thread in regards to an admin complaint made by Fazbeus in regards to Nalaoc calling him a retard because he, according to him, came off as unnecessarily hostile in an ahelp. Quite a lot of people in the peanut thread took his side, but in return he lashed out stating that he was telling everyone our community was a shithole and slinging accusations of us being cyberbullying psychopaths who have driven teenagers to suicide (?????). I, quite frankly, thought he was being a pisshead so I decided to rile the guy up a bit, as is generally done in peanut threads to those peanut-originators who come in and start causing a ruckus. We went back and forth with some banter, me generally making jokes about Russian stereotypes and him screaming that I was, most assuredly in his eyes, very mad. This continued for about a page until Armhulen decided to ban me and state publically that he banned me for being racist.
Why you think you should be unbanned: I feel as though Rule 12 doesn't apply to this situation for multiple reasons. For one, "Russian", is not a race. It is a nationality. As far as I am aware, national banter is allowed on this forum. If it is NOT the case, then the rule is being very inconsistently applied, as there are multiple users of this forum who meme on and about "le amerilard" and "stinky europoor", etc.
The screencapture below is a statement that was made by armhulen in the very thread a mere few posts below the one in which he announced he banned me.
If such is the case, and it is not racist, why was I banned? Is Russia an exception to the rule because part of it is extended into Asia? If that is the case, why is it not noted in the forum rules? Is it not a matter of me making fun of Russians, but rather the quantity of my posts making fun of them? If so, I would appreciate if it was clearly delineated in the rules on how much I can make fun of someone's homeland before copping a ban to prevent cases like this in the future.
If I and Armhulen are mistaken, and barbs about another's nationality are NOT tolerated, then why is this rule so inconsistently applied? There is a gulf of division in our playerbase between those who main on the European server and those who play on the American servers, and in many peanut threads these two sides come together to sling verbal abuse at each other. If this isn't allowed, why have the admins not done anything to shift the server culture away from this behavior?
Anything else we should know: I have reason to believe that this ban was not applied in good faith, but I only have speculative info on this so I will leave it to a complaint thread.
