[Aranclamos] An0n3 - Permabans people he doesn't like
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 6:24 pm
Let me tell you a story of how I first met Aran and why it's all been downhill ever since:
Back when I was head of bans I had a permaban appeal come up for one agentdovakhiin. You can see he was originally permabanned for some wacky shit on October 11th, 2012. Randomly for whatever reason, between calasmere and yinadele it was decided that calasmere would put the permaban in on yinadele's authority, or some such technicality. I believe Aran might have been present for these events but I'm not sure. He may have just heard about it secondhand from yinadele, apparently the two of them were close.
Fastforward six months later to April 2013, when he makes a ban appeal. As the head of bans I sit this one out until calas decides that, yeah he'd give the guy a probationary period but it's kinda yinadele's call. Unfortunately, yinadele had left by then in a big huff and there was some rough stuff going on between her and some other admins. Still, I managed to track her down to talk about this situation. She says it was weird but if calas is fine with the situation then it's fine to give him another shot.
I post to that effect in the thread, calas removes the ban on 4/22, 6pm server time.
Very soon after Aranclanos messages me pissed off telling me I'm abusing my authority and I shouldn't just go around removing other peoples bans. I talk with him and explain that I contacted everyone involved, and everyone was cool with it. He mentions that he'll have to go talk to them about it and that's that.
I get a hold of yinadele again and ask her what the deal is with this guy. She gives him a vote of confidence and says I should do my best to cooperate with him, he's a good dude, etc. etc. Fair enough. I call it a night.
At 4pm the next day, only 20 hours after the ban was lifted, Aranclanos has reapplied his own permaban. The reasoning being "he was being an ass to everyone."
I look into the OOC and admin logs and find out Aranclanos had found this player when they logged in and began verbally harassing and provoking them until such a time that Aran decided he was "an ass" and that he had some IC justification to reapply the perma.
And now this is where I fucked up, and this is one of the least ethically responsible decisions I've ever made as an admin in this game, but for whatever stupid reason I decided to cover for Aran. I edited the ban to imply that someone had second guessed their decision to unban him, since that's at least a better justification than an admin assaulting a player until they crack and get banned for it.
I chewed Aran out, we had our first NO FUCK YOU ASSHOLE exchange as I told him to keep his goddamn biased hands off the ban controls from now on.
But he didn't. He kept fucking up enough until the point where he actually had ban taken away from him for a little bit.
But now he has it again. For what it's worth some of his bans look good. There's some good stuff in there, and he's a hard workin' coder. I don't hate him as a person.
But goddamn are there still a lot of shitty bans in there.
I was hoping when I came back I would be able to avoid Aran or we could just mutually not give a shit about eachother but he made the first snide remarks, and then I noticed he almost immediately had a public shitty ban and an admincomplaint and I knew...nothing had really changed.
Back when I was head of bans I had a permaban appeal come up for one agentdovakhiin. You can see he was originally permabanned for some wacky shit on October 11th, 2012. Randomly for whatever reason, between calasmere and yinadele it was decided that calasmere would put the permaban in on yinadele's authority, or some such technicality. I believe Aran might have been present for these events but I'm not sure. He may have just heard about it secondhand from yinadele, apparently the two of them were close.
Fastforward six months later to April 2013, when he makes a ban appeal. As the head of bans I sit this one out until calas decides that, yeah he'd give the guy a probationary period but it's kinda yinadele's call. Unfortunately, yinadele had left by then in a big huff and there was some rough stuff going on between her and some other admins. Still, I managed to track her down to talk about this situation. She says it was weird but if calas is fine with the situation then it's fine to give him another shot.
I post to that effect in the thread, calas removes the ban on 4/22, 6pm server time.
Very soon after Aranclanos messages me pissed off telling me I'm abusing my authority and I shouldn't just go around removing other peoples bans. I talk with him and explain that I contacted everyone involved, and everyone was cool with it. He mentions that he'll have to go talk to them about it and that's that.
I get a hold of yinadele again and ask her what the deal is with this guy. She gives him a vote of confidence and says I should do my best to cooperate with him, he's a good dude, etc. etc. Fair enough. I call it a night.
At 4pm the next day, only 20 hours after the ban was lifted, Aranclanos has reapplied his own permaban. The reasoning being "he was being an ass to everyone."
I look into the OOC and admin logs and find out Aranclanos had found this player when they logged in and began verbally harassing and provoking them until such a time that Aran decided he was "an ass" and that he had some IC justification to reapply the perma.
And now this is where I fucked up, and this is one of the least ethically responsible decisions I've ever made as an admin in this game, but for whatever stupid reason I decided to cover for Aran. I edited the ban to imply that someone had second guessed their decision to unban him, since that's at least a better justification than an admin assaulting a player until they crack and get banned for it.
I chewed Aran out, we had our first NO FUCK YOU ASSHOLE exchange as I told him to keep his goddamn biased hands off the ban controls from now on.
But he didn't. He kept fucking up enough until the point where he actually had ban taken away from him for a little bit.
But now he has it again. For what it's worth some of his bans look good. There's some good stuff in there, and he's a hard workin' coder. I don't hate him as a person.
But goddamn are there still a lot of shitty bans in there.
I was hoping when I came back I would be able to avoid Aran or we could just mutually not give a shit about eachother but he made the first snide remarks, and then I noticed he almost immediately had a public shitty ban and an admincomplaint and I knew...nothing had really changed.