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Ban type: Server
Ban length: 1440 minutes
Ban reason: Renamed areas to names such as "Cum Town" and "Semen Mountain". When asked not to do this, did not take the ahelp seriously and responded rhetorically with comments such as "Are these not places you would like to inhabit? " and "Semen Mountain is a reference to the Neutral Milk Hotel song Oh Comely. It's a beautiful work." - When instead asked not to rename places to things that are Rule 8 violations no matter how minor they may think they are, then responded by attempting to rules lawyer their way out of it. You're fresh off a dayban this month. Take another day off to consider this.
Time ban was placed: 2021-11-16 06:04:26
Server you were playing on when banned: Manuel
Round ID in which ban was placed: 173128
Your side of the story:
I spent most of the round helping the curator set up a matrix of pipes and filters in the corner of the room to try to remove the CO2 from the ice moon and warm it up. We ended up creating a very high pressure room full of CO2 but didn't make much of a dent in the atmosphere before it was time to leave. I don't know that it's actually possible to filter all the air on Ice Box but I'd still like to find out.
I'd just finished helping them heal somebody when I received an adminPM from Timberpoes:
From Ticket #8 during round 173128 on Manuel
Ticket opened at 2021-11-16 05:55:01 by timberpoes
Log:
05:55:01: Ticket Opened by-timberpoes: Please do not rename rooms are areas to things like "Cum Town" or "Semen Mountain".
05:55:38: Reply from-cacogen: Are these not places you would like to inhabit?
05:56:39: Reply from-timberpoes: I will say it again, please do not name areas things like "Cum Town" or "Semen Mountain".
05:57:33: Reply from-cacogen: Semen Mountain is a reference to the Neutral Milk Hotel song Oh Comely. It's a beautiful work.
05:59:41: Reply from-timberpoes: I will rephrase it. Please do not name areas to things that are rule 8 violations, no matter how minor you think they are.
06:00:21: Reply from-cacogen: Let me just refresh my memory on what Rule 8 is. You prude.
06:01:24: Reply from-cacogen: Ah yeah that's not what Rule 8 is supposed to cover, because it's not something sexual forced upon another player that makes them feel uncomfortable.
06:02:48: Reply from-cacogen: There was a thread about this and about whether it applied to WGW and library books in general and I said then that the wording should be made more specific so it was obvious what the intent of the rule was because we never used to have admins trying to apply it to stuff like this that is intended to be a joke and isn't being forced on someone else.
06:04:29: Resolved by Timberpoes
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I incorrectly stated in my response that "Semen Mountain" was a reference to Oh Comely. The song I was actually referencing is the one embedded above. Though the metaphorical mountain range in that song never has a peak named it does seem appropriate to colloquially refer to at least one of them as "Semen Mountain", as all of them are stained with that reproductive fluid.
Earlier in the shift I'd taken one of the sets of blueprints the admins had spawned in the creative corner, and saw that the creative corner area was named "The Hut". I'm not sure who named it that (presumably not the admins) but that naming scheme stuck with me for the rest of the shift.
The first thing I renamed the creative corner to was "Cuck Shed," which I believe is what the NTR Hut on the forums was called before it was renamed to a slightly less obvious version. Later, I renamed it to something like "I don't even want these blueprints a" before returning the blueprints to the floor where I'd found them. Sometime after that I must've picked up the blueprints again and renamed the creative corner to "Cum Town". This was just copying the name of a podcast, so I changed it to something similar but slightly more original: "Semen Mountain".
The intention behind these name changes was to be pranky and immature and get a little chuckle out of anyone who might happen across them. Given the lack of vents, scrubbers or air alarms in the creative corner it was unlikely most players would even know the area's name.
I didn't accept Timberpoes' implication when he adminPM'd me that there was anything rulebreaking about renaming an area "Cum Town" or "Semen Mountain". I've renamed a number of things in a similar manner in the past and never had any issues. Once I stumbled across a bug with MULEbots that I'd hacked and renamed that caused their pathing to slow the server to a crawl and after I adminhelped to tell oranges they were the cause of the lag an admin PM'd me to point out the humourous nature of their names.
I don't agree that rule 8 applies here. Rule 8 is supposed to protect people from sexual harassment, not ban humour that reference sex. This was an area name that was almost completely invisible and any player could've changed. There were at least three sets of blueprints floating around, including the set I'd left on the floor after renaming the area "Semen Mountain". After being adminPM'd by Timberpoes, I checked these blueprints were still where I'd left them and that the space was still called "Semen Mountain". Either nobody knew it was called that or nobody cared enough to change it. This was not something unavoidable being forced on another player to make them uncomfortable as a rule 8 ban implies.
I don't think Timberpoes' objected to the renaming because he honestly thought it was a violation of rule 8. I don't know if he was the admin who built the space but I think he adminPM'd me because he took offense to me renaming something the admins had built to something that could be seen as taking the piss out of it and rule 8 was a convenient excuse to do so.
I don't know what rules lawyering is or whether it applies here but I don't think players who disagree with an admin about their interpretation of a rule should have it used against them or as a justification for a ban. I genuinely think there is confusion among newer admins about what rule 8 does and doesn't apply to because of the vague wording. Reading humourous books that are sexually explicit over comms like The Lusty Xenomorph Maid or WGW has completely died out and there was a forum thread with admins who wanted to ban these types of books because they believed they came under rule 8 when previously they had never been an issue.
I don't think that it's relevant that I was banned recently or that it justifies this ban. The two bans have nothing to do with each other. The ban I received about 11 days ago (Statbus won't work at the moment for me to check the exact amount of days) was for requesting bird crates. It was an IC issue that had already been resolved when the admin PM'd me. You can read more about it here.
Why you think you should be unbanned: Anonymously renaming an area "Semen Mountain" as a joke does not constitute sexual harassment so doesn't fall under what rule 8 is there to prevent.
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