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Banning admin: MrStonedOne
Ban reason: Can't see it, audit log was disabled, likely via the timeout function.
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Time ban was placed: Sometime around or before 12 PM PST, 2/9/2022, can't check the audit log while timed out.
Your side of the story: MSO opened a revert of my hooch nerf PR. He seems to be taking issue with the greytide metabolism trait remaining. I don't really care if the trait remains or not, I only removed it because it was dead code and was conditional for the PR being merged as per maintainer instructions. When elaborating to MSO that he should make a PR to re-add the trait that he wants, I received a 1 week timeout. He also threatened to ban a maintainer because he didn't like their opinion on something.
We then had this conversation in DMs:
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Why you think you should be unbanned:
So, to start with, he opened a PR that was a revert of my PR.
He titled this PR "Revert "Hooch no longer heals assistants."".
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/64774
This was a revert of a PR I made, titled "Hooch no longer heals assistants."
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/64693
I, foolishly, assumed that MSO was removing the hooch nerf, despite the OP, and as such tried to argue with him about it on the discord. He then weekbanned me from the discord via the timeout feature. He cited the dogpiling rule that he put in place last time he got told he was wrong by a large amount of the developers here so that he could ban people who disagreed with him.
He also banned a maintainer, allegedly. I can't view the audit log to verify so I'm taking this post at face value:
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I believe this conversation shouldn't have occured in the coding general chat and should have occured in #maintainerbus, the channel MSO created.
I asked MSO for a statement on the matter and they had this to say:
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There is a strong case to be made that MSO engaged in banbait by having this conversation in a public space, directly reverting my PR, then banning me when I tried to engage him in a discussion about my PR that he's reverting. I was concerned he was reverting the hooch nerf because both the code in his PR said he was reverting the hooch nerf, and he titled the PR "Revert "Hooch no longer heals assistants."". He tempbanned me for a week for believing this and trying to have a discussion with him in the public coding channel.
MSO had full access to #maintainerbus and as I stated in the request for comment re: using that channel, had plenty of opportunities to move the conversation there. However, they did not do so, and they dodged the question when I asked them to not revert the hooch nerf and just re-add the trait.
To summarize, MSO opened a revert of my PR, then gave me a ban for "dogpiling" because I was involved in the conversation revolving around my pull request that he was reverting.
I believe I should be unbanned because I was trying to good faith discuss my PR being reverted with the contributor who was trying to revert my PR, only to find out the revert was a bad faith revert that had nothing to do with the actual contents of the PR and was, by all accounts, just trying to prove some weird point to win an epic internet argument.
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MSO was at best banning me in the heat of the moment because I didn't have the high IQ needed to see his master plan, and at worst banbaiting me by reverting my PR so that I would try to talk to him about the revert of my PR so he could ban me for dogpiling, despite it being my PR that he was reverting.