I've been informed by a few administrators that after Wild banned me from this server's Discord community on February he created a thread which listed that punishment as "unappealable," which in my opinion sets a ridiculous precedent for barring certain users from this community simply because it would be easier to brush them aside than to hear an appeal on their behalf. Seeing as I did not violate Discord's terms of service by doing what I did, there is no reason to prevent me from issuing an appeal.
fussy (fssp#4894) - Violations of both unappealable cat one offenses by posting illegal content on Discord and therefore violating their T&C's and by promoting hate speech platforms on our Discord not just breaking the discord T&C's but also bringing ATLAS's reputation into risk.
I have never posted illegal content on Discord by any stretch of the imagination nor have I violated Discord's terms of service. The messages I posted in #general-discussion were removed rather haphazardly while I was banned, but they contained nothing more than text and to claim that I posted "illegal content" on your Discord server has no truth to it whatsoever.
Wild also decided to mend his ban reason after the fact to include that I am somehow in violation of Discord's terms of service because I created a forum which has very few rules, geteso, and because of the things that people post on that forum ('guilty by association' fallacy).
Upon a detailed review of the Discord Terms of Service, and by extension the Discord Community Guidelines which are required to be followed as part of following the discord TOS, we have identified that your historic advertising of the platform which you also chose to run and administrate in your own time in our view is highly likely to violate the following sections of the community guidelines, and as such your ban has been adjusted to mark you as being in violation of rule 1.A of the discord rules.
Section 1A primarily bars harassment, the creation of Discord servers for the purpose of hate speech, making threats of violence, and the evasion of punishments which are handed out by community officials, none of which I am guilty of. While it is true that I have advertised my forum in the past, I did so before that forum was "banned" from this server, and I have never linked to it since because that would be a violation of this server's rules.
Because the circumstances surrounding my ban from this server's Discord community do not seem to hold water, and several of Wild's posts flat-out contradict each other (I have never heard of an "unappealable" ban before I saw a thread that only exists in the admin lounge), I've taken the opportunity to write an appeal which explains what I did before I was banned.
- Your Discord tag: fssp#2048
- If known, who banned you? Wild.
- Do you know approximately what time you were banned? I have the date as 02/07/2021, but I don't have the exact time that I was banned.
- Why do you think you were banned? I replied to a video posted by Shrimp of an older man saying "big black ***** balls HD" with the following message: "Darkened ethnic tentacles in high definition." It was a stupid joke and in poor taste, but I don't think it was worth being banned for. I believe that it could've justified a warning or kick from the server, but both Shrimp and I were banned for this.
- Explain why you think you should be unbanned, and promise to never do whatever you did again. I think the main reason I should be unbanned is because of the length that has passed since the punishment and due to why it was handed out. Though what I did was stupid, I couldn't have imagined that I would have been banned from the server for more than five months for replying to a video that I thought was funny. I promise not to joke about that kind of stuff again.
