Banning admin: Ausops
Ban type (What are you banned from?): Game/Forum
Ban reason and length: Permanent, Unable to get full reason as travelling with work. Short answer, Escalating series of targeted bans. Apparently failing a probation because I disagreed with Ausops in a policy thread
Time ban was placed (including time zone): Unknown (Years ago)
Server you were playing when banned (Sybil or Bagil): All
Your side of the story:
Not to get too long winded, I had been playing on TG for several years (As far back as the days of Uhangi and Burer. Prior to the events taking place in the space of a few months I had been playing on TG for roughly 3-4 years with two notes to my name. One was me reporting myself for making a mistake with the engine setup, received a very short temp ban due to the deaths it caused. The second I believe was a minor rule misunderstanding again taking place in the first few weeks of my playtime. After that point my note/conduct history was immaculate until my return to the server following the community split fiasco.
Upon my return, I seemed to be frequently clashing with three admins in particular. These admins were Scones, Saegrimir and Ausops. I knew who none of these three were as I had taken a break after the community split and just recent had returned. What followed was a series of increasingly bizarre conflicts between myself and these admins mostly to do with security bans/policy arguments. I won't go too deeply into these because you can see the note history for yourself, Note that I had something in the region of 6-7 bans lifted or retracted by the head admins at the time (HG/Kor) due to poor ban reasoning and in some cases administrators outright lying and forging log evidence (Scones for example trying to force a meta game ban through by claiming I had stripped him and checked his mesons for thermals as a security officer. Logs proved this was another player and the logs scones provided at the time of the ban were forged).
Eventually I was warned by Kor/HG that eventually I was going to be perma'd mostly because it was too much of a pain in the ass to deal with the conflict within the admin team that was coming from these conflicts, I was advised to change Byond account and character name because of the sheer dislike that was being shown towards me by the three in particular. Letting them perma me, I was told would honestly be the easier option than dealing with the Adminbus drama.
I admit I did let my anger get the better of me during this period, Especially when forum moderator tools were used to temporarily remove my posting rights and close ban appeals. HG had put me on probation and I had basically stopped playing all together by this point when I was discussing something in the policy thread section (I forget the post) when Ausops decided my posting in the thread breached HGs probation and I was Perma'd.
Why you think you should be unbanned:
Honestly, This all stems from two main pain points. I do admit my playstyle at the time was rather power gamey as security, I played in a "competitive" manner always doing what would mean I had the best chance of failure. While not being exactly against the rules was in some cases very poor form.
However, The biggest point and where the root of this animosity comes from (something I would only discover towards the end thanks to another ex-admin Garrus) is a conflict between Ausops and I in another game. To give some context (Eve players should understand) Ausops and I were both part of Sniggerdly in Pandemic Legion. Pandemic Legion is what some might call an elitist PvP group within Eve online, I knew Ausops through Pandemic Legion at one time he was a fleet FC.
To cut a long story short, He lost a cap fleet doing something incredibly stupid and he was hazed pretty badly for it in response. This started personal conflicts which ended him attempting to get certain players (myself included) kicked from Snigg and PL by trying to forge evidence that certain players were spies for Black Legion/Goons. This came out eventually and he was booted from the alliance hence where the pretty intense animosity and dislike comes from, I can't say I blame them but it's a moot point I guess.
I have been playing on other servers and like my previous stint on TG I have had zero administrative issues, Except for one CM MP Job ban (Lifted immediately) for disconnecting mid round because I had to take my kid to the hospital.
If required I can get some references from administrators and moderators from other servers. I would just like to quote the comment from the CM MP Job Ban appeal thread:
I would like to be unbanned (Not necessarily immediately happy to just be downgraded from a perma) and be able to play TG again some day if possible.From my interactions with Tornadium he's been nothing but reasonable and pleasant when I've spoken to him as a mod, and in all regards he's a good player. I find the excuse given completely reasonable and understandable, besides which MPs going SSD is never a disaster anyway, as they can easily be cryo'd and the role freed up.
Happy to discuss this further and provide evidence to back up everything I'm saying (I don't want to Dox anyone or provide any information publicly which could identify someone despite our differences). If you need to please reach out to me in discord and I can share more evidence away from public eyes and we can discuss further.
Edit : Just wanted to re-iterate, I'm currently travelling with work so I may not be replying straight away (That and I'm on post approval still) so if I'm not replying to a question or follow up I'll get back to you ASAP
