Goonhub
10-29-2024, 09:54 AM
Admin: Roger Clementine
(This account is under my previous CKEY, the new one being Callipygian0)
Server: Goonstation 3, Morty
Date + time: 10/29/2024, 1-2 AM CST.
Synopsis: I was banned for losing my temper and improperly using LOOC, which I do not dispute. I know you will say I have previous offenses in this matter and do not disagree or think that a ban was out of line. I was trying to packet hack a locker and I got frustrated that I couldn't figure it out. In my frustration in the moment, I lost my temper because I was being arrested in the middle of the process. If I had been a security officer, I would have arrested me, too, because I was trespassing and doing something antaggie, and it was inappropriate for me to lose my cool, sling insults, and expect special treatment from procedure. I have no hesitation in apologizing for that, especially considering my previous offense.
My ban was escalated from a 2-week to a 1-month, do-not-appeal for 30 days, the next shift. Paraphrasing a bit, Roger Clementine told me that, in the middle of administering said 2-week ban, he was upping it because I was handing out energy guns to security officers and that I should refrain from power gaming. I take issue with this for multiple reasons:
1. I wasn't trying to power game. My security team was understaffed (or I at least believed they were) in a gang round and I was trying to buttress their firepower. This intention is evidenced by the fact that, after RoleControlling Medical Doctor, I then changed it to Security Officer in an effort to get more recruits. I'm not saying what I did was a good idea or acceptable, I'm just communicating that I wasn't intentionally trying to "win" or "powergame" in that scenario. I've had many gang shifts that overwhelmed me as a Captain or Security Officer and, honestly, it was late and I probably wasn't being as rational as I should have been.
2. I feel like that is too extreme a jump in escalation for a transgression I have not been warned about before, piggybacked on another incident that I had. I'm not pleading ignorance of the rules as a justification, but I had 2 security officers that shift and they're the only ones I dispensed weapons to. I had more in my bag, but I had just read about cloning energy guns and it was something I had just learned about. Considering this on its own, if an admin had told me to stop doing that, I would have complied immediately without resistance and asked the officers to return the guns. I have never resisted an admin's admonishments, most of the time I apologize and accept it.
3. There was no attempt to ask me why I was doing that. You will probably say that you don't owe players that, and I understand the swift punishment in regards to losing my temper -- that warrants no discussion. In the case of the guns, I might have seemed less grey-tiding if I had been asked about it. I think that was both a missed opportunity for the admin to understand my intent and an opportunity for me to think about if what I was doing might not have been the most helpful course of action.
I understand having a no tolerance policy about the way you treat other players. But I am still learning to navigate a lot of the gray areas about game mechanics, especially on an RP server where there's a lot of factors to consider. I know that I'm mischievous and I bend the rules with the way I play the game, but I am also just very curious and sometimes you break the rules when you test the limits. Which is why I always try and stay in my lane when an admin tells me I'm playing the game in a way that is unwanted. I have never resisted those checks or, to my knowledge, persisted in the transgression when told not to, outside of my temper, and I do think that should count for something.
I think the month, no appeal ban, was unwarranted. Two weeks is double my previous ban and I should have time away for the way I behaved. But to basically say, "You know what, you're powergaming, so screw the two-weeks, you're permabanned now" feels harsh and reactive.
(This account is under my previous CKEY, the new one being Callipygian0)
Server: Goonstation 3, Morty
Date + time: 10/29/2024, 1-2 AM CST.
Synopsis: I was banned for losing my temper and improperly using LOOC, which I do not dispute. I know you will say I have previous offenses in this matter and do not disagree or think that a ban was out of line. I was trying to packet hack a locker and I got frustrated that I couldn't figure it out. In my frustration in the moment, I lost my temper because I was being arrested in the middle of the process. If I had been a security officer, I would have arrested me, too, because I was trespassing and doing something antaggie, and it was inappropriate for me to lose my cool, sling insults, and expect special treatment from procedure. I have no hesitation in apologizing for that, especially considering my previous offense.
My ban was escalated from a 2-week to a 1-month, do-not-appeal for 30 days, the next shift. Paraphrasing a bit, Roger Clementine told me that, in the middle of administering said 2-week ban, he was upping it because I was handing out energy guns to security officers and that I should refrain from power gaming. I take issue with this for multiple reasons:
1. I wasn't trying to power game. My security team was understaffed (or I at least believed they were) in a gang round and I was trying to buttress their firepower. This intention is evidenced by the fact that, after RoleControlling Medical Doctor, I then changed it to Security Officer in an effort to get more recruits. I'm not saying what I did was a good idea or acceptable, I'm just communicating that I wasn't intentionally trying to "win" or "powergame" in that scenario. I've had many gang shifts that overwhelmed me as a Captain or Security Officer and, honestly, it was late and I probably wasn't being as rational as I should have been.
2. I feel like that is too extreme a jump in escalation for a transgression I have not been warned about before, piggybacked on another incident that I had. I'm not pleading ignorance of the rules as a justification, but I had 2 security officers that shift and they're the only ones I dispensed weapons to. I had more in my bag, but I had just read about cloning energy guns and it was something I had just learned about. Considering this on its own, if an admin had told me to stop doing that, I would have complied immediately without resistance and asked the officers to return the guns. I have never resisted an admin's admonishments, most of the time I apologize and accept it.
3. There was no attempt to ask me why I was doing that. You will probably say that you don't owe players that, and I understand the swift punishment in regards to losing my temper -- that warrants no discussion. In the case of the guns, I might have seemed less grey-tiding if I had been asked about it. I think that was both a missed opportunity for the admin to understand my intent and an opportunity for me to think about if what I was doing might not have been the most helpful course of action.
I understand having a no tolerance policy about the way you treat other players. But I am still learning to navigate a lot of the gray areas about game mechanics, especially on an RP server where there's a lot of factors to consider. I know that I'm mischievous and I bend the rules with the way I play the game, but I am also just very curious and sometimes you break the rules when you test the limits. Which is why I always try and stay in my lane when an admin tells me I'm playing the game in a way that is unwanted. I have never resisted those checks or, to my knowledge, persisted in the transgression when told not to, outside of my temper, and I do think that should count for something.
I think the month, no appeal ban, was unwarranted. Two weeks is double my previous ban and I should have time away for the way I behaved. But to basically say, "You know what, you're powergaming, so screw the two-weeks, you're permabanned now" feels harsh and reactive.