Shaps wrote:Tornadium was already told to go away, and his inability to take the hint that he's not wanted here doesn't mean he deserved another chance. As for your ban, it was a bad one that got overturned anyway, so what's the issue?
Actually I wasn't.
I was told by a headmin to go to other servers and get admin vouches and that would be enough for a probation. I did so and made an appeal thread while waiting in IRC to speak to someone and the appeal was locked and I was basically told to fuck off by a few admins.
HG wasn't involved in that, he actually lifted whatever weird forum ban you placed on me after I made the appeal so I could post again.
Though after reading your post to be honest, I'm probably not going to even bother appealing now. Seems like a waste after going to 5 different servers, playing and not having a single issue and asking admins and moderators to vouch for me. However I feel like if I appeal now all it does it grant legitimacy to whatever personal issue you seem to have. Lets be straight about that, your issue with me is personal rather than based on anything I actually ever did on this server. I played on here for what 4 years without issue? I still don't know what your problem is, maybe I pissed you off in some other game and apparently that is enough to stoke the fire of this eternal rage that I seem to be generating from you and ausops right now. I don't really know the reason behind it as when I've spoken to you in IRC I've been nothing but polite and to be quite honest I don't think I've ever seen this level of anger from anyone ever before. It's not like even minor rage it's legitimate hate and venon. I've yet to find out why you feel this way.
Just to make it clear, HG was just really busy. He didn't ignore me and he was pretty helpful and removed the weird posting group I was in so I could actually appeal properly. Yes the hidden posting group that contains me, 2beard and some dude who consistently tried to crash the server. I wouldn't really consider myself quite on their level but hey. That said, if I do bother appealing my ban it just appears to give legitimacy to the notion that everything is fine in the world of TG. The sad truth is that the admin team has been slipping towards and basically is at this point an old boys club a clique that you have to get on board with or move the fuck along. I don't really recall it ever being this bad before, Just reading most of the replies now kinda makes me really worried about the health of the community here going forward, There are some genuinely good people on the staff here which try to help and make things better but after speaking to a lot of people in IRC (admins included) and reading some of the shit on the forums since I got banned I can't really say I have much hope for any recovery any time soon.
I wouldn't really consider myself a shitter J_Mad. As I said, I was here for 4 years without incident really. I haven't had any issues on other servers either, like ever and I've played with a bunch of people from this community on Bay, CM and Goon. There are community members who have done significantly worse than I have, repeatedly with worse attitudes than I do and are still playing here. I don't really have any illusions at this point, I pissed off and challenged the system and I lost and I have to deal with the consequences of not being able to play on the server because I didn't swallow the pill and smile. There isn't really any other way to summarize my situation at the moment, the rage that I receive by just being around is far beyond anything I've witnessed any other member of this community receive and I'm sure you can attest to that yourself having seen some of the IRC chat.
I probably put myself on the perma do not unban list after making a post like this but I have to say I'm okay with not playing here if making a criticism about the way things are handled results in an outright blanket ban. Sorry HG if thats how it has to be after I bugged you so much to get a reply, I kind of feel like a dick doing this now but when Shaps can't manage to restrain his venom to tell the truth about something I feel like I kinda have to set the record straight here.
Edit : Poor Grammar.