Character name: Cletus FUCK TRAM FUCK NORTHSTAR FUCK BIRDSHIT
Ban type: Note
Note reason:
Time ban was placed: 2023-05-09 23:02:50
Round ID in which ban was placed: 205391 (actual round 205293)
Your side of the story: Spawn as nukie captain. Make funni nukie family name. 1 day passes. Discord ticket from Vekter taking issue with it, then note.
Why you think you should be unbanned: Here I will offer a two-pronged defense, the first will be an IC justification and the second the OOC justification.
IC: Back in the syndie villages in the icemoon, Donk Co. together with the Gorlex Marauders caught wind of two entirely new Nanotrasen stations -- Northstar and Birdshot. As such they began the funding of a nuclear operative squad that targets specifically Northstar class vessels, or Tram and Birdshot class stations. They called this elite fleet "FUCK TRAM FUCK NORTHSTAR FUCK BIRDSHIT[sic]." As I'm sure you're aware, nuclear operatives aren't given names and families in the icemoon. They are given numbers, gear, and tasks -- they are not quite people, but soldiers, trained their whole lives for a single mission. As such it makes perfect sense for their family name to reflect that mission.
OOC: I believe my chosen name was kosher based on this rule in naming policy:
Nukies get the same name leeway as clowns, as given in the "exceptions" section. Multiple people found this name entertaining, you can see from the chatlogs, and that was really my only goal -- make a funni nukie name. Northstar and Birdshot just recently replaced two maps, and Tram is the next most recent, so it's pretty funny to me that a nukie assault team would be called to nuke them from orbit. I don't think this should be construed as a pointed OOC insult against the mapmakers as Vekter suggested (in the Discord ticket):The Gimmick Exemption: Names that lean on or are technically in violation of naming policy may at admin discretion receive an exemption to be used temporarily to enable interesting, entertaining or plain fun character gimmicks. Admins are encouraged to allow this where possible as long as players are putting in a good faith effort to use the exemption in ways that are beneficial for everyone.
I fundamentally disagree that a nuclear assault team commander should care about being "rude" -- and rude to whom? To the maps? The name listed half the maps in rotation, I have trouble seeing it as targeted. Particularly because this round was on Tram and well, our goal was to blow up Tramstation! Now you might ask, "then why not just name it 'FUCK TRAMSTATION'"? Two reasons for this. First, it's kind of bland and not very funny. Second, now it does sound more like OOC hatred/salt rather than a gimmick name, because it's one specific station.Vekter wrote:For another, it's kind of rude as shit and I'm tempted to put it on the same level as something like "FUCK (admin)" as a nuke op name
I don't feel that I am out of scope for asking you to choose better names in the future.
Last thing I'll say is that there have been way, way more "OOC" names than this from nukies and clowns alike. But apparently a member of staff ahelped this, I presume because they felt offended that the nukie name said "FUCK [map]". I think that's oversensitive, and I can't emphasize this enough -- we were a FLEET OF NUCLEAR OPERATIVES TASKED WITH BLOWING A MAP OUT OF ORBIT.
Anything else we should know: A fitting end