Username: Deimosian

When you were banned : 8/9/2012

Person who banned you: Modern Dragoness / Jallaf

Reason you were banned:

Apparently, from what I could gather after the fact, for "being disrespectful to staff" by having an opinion on whether or not someone who constantly trolls, yells incoherently into their mic, opens their mic to slurp soda loudly, goes on about racist nonsense, etc, should be a staff member or not. Oh and I apparently may have called him "gay".

Now, I'm not sure if this falls under the pot calling the kettle black or a case someone who can dish it out but not take it... but either way, the simple fact that I have a negative opinion about someone does not, in my mind, justify banning me from mumble. If you banned everyone who ever expressed a negative opinion about someone on mumble, there'd never be anyone online.

Edit: I should also mention that Modern came into the channel with some of us, confronted me about Jallaf, I explained all this, she said ok and went away... then banned me 15-20 minutes later, while I was talking to Danny and others in Danny's channel, after she disappeared back into the admins channel, with jallaf.

There is a procedure of dealing with a staff member and its called reporting them, you do not disrespect them regardless of it being an opinion or not. This is not your first offence either which is the most disappointing part. You do not seem to apprehend why you are in trouble or have any remorse for your actions, I also don't see an apology to the staff member in question anywhere in this appeal.

All staff are looking into this and a decision will be based on your current and previous actions and if we will be expecting your behaviour to change or not. Please be patient.

Well, quite frankly, it seems like every time I express an opinion about anything someone instantly screams 'disrespect' or some such. I'm not making anyone listen to me. There's a local mute button on mumble and /ignore in game if you don't like what I have to say. It shows a severe lack of maturity on certain people's parts that they can't handle any opinions that aren't in line with theirs. Yes, I could go fill out an official report every time staff does something irritating, but I don't think every little thing is worth doing such for. I didn't join minetown to write reports.

Not to mention the underlying issue here of many staff having a "We're always right, if you disagree you're wrong and if you say you disagree we'll kick/mute/ban you." attitude. You're not always right, you're not infallible, and you shouldn't be shocked when one of you constantly spams nonsense in mumble that people have a negative opinion of him.

I apprehend why I'm in trouble, I just think it's both unjust and not in line with posted policy.

I don't have remorse for my actions because I have not done anything morally wrong.

I have not and will not apologize for speaking my mind about someone whose behavior is often worse then my own.

If you can't handle that, ban me. I won't change who I am and what I believe in to be a member of your little club.

Deimosian, the reasons you list and responses you give in this ban appeal are a pale comparision to your actual statements and behaviour in mumble. Some of the things you have said in response to other players, regardless of if they are staff or not are totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

Your mumble ban is permanent.