MinerTeddy

I'm pretty sure most TGH staff can back me up that he's toxic nearly every time he joins.
@Vexx @Sesh @Elcark @BonfireCentipede @Vector @Natsu and more.

All I see is white.
If you are making this because I gagged and muted you, get over it. What you said was disrespectful and I found somewhat racist.
The type of humor that you have completely differs from mine. I'd expect much better of an ex division leader. (Edited by @Nomulous)

Oof. I could be a sassy Sally and quote a bunch of posts to reply to individual people, or bring up how I would have handled it. But I honestly don't have the time nor would that help, so I'll just say +1 for shortening or ban removal. Mistakes were clearly made and/or protocol was clearly goofed somewhere. Either way it seems like the people involved should just admit mistakes/apologize, and maybe we should take a closer look at some sort of "statute of limitations" for punishments that have been served in full/are years old.

He was on yesterday for 6 hours with Egossi and other members on TGH, are you telling me he went through the server only to insult people? Also, this whole thread is based on your conversation to brian asking him to name change, which he didn't, to which you asked Vexx for a month ban after. So what you're saying is also false since no one apparently had an issue with him that entire day, but according to you, all he does is come on just to insult people.
 
@Vexx

lol wut

While mince is just grasping at things to make a flaming pile of shit, this is the 2nd time in very recent where TF2 staff has banned someone/wanted to ban someone for a long duration of time over something so small and so little that it boggles my mind.
 
Call me old but back in the day, this kind of name was common. It's literally a way of protesting that you don't like how staff are handling things. Does he ever specifically state "Kypari is a badmin because he sucks the poopy"? no, he just says "tired of the badmins". I literally don't even know where to start with this besides you all need to just chill out with your bans. There's no need to be a nazi over every single thing and hunt for reasons to give longer bans than remotely reasonable.

[Citation needed]

That is the words of players Aegean, Kypari is one of my staff. He knows what he's doing usually, and in the event sourcebans was working, he would've made the ban instead of me and nothing would have been changed. If I can't go on the word of my staff on the servers, how am I supposed to make an unbiased decision on most of what I am doing? I already said you were right, I should have gotten the other side of the story, but I will still in the end trust my admins with these sort of situations.

It doesn't matter if someone was once a great staff member, they should still be punished like a normal user nonetheless. I'll agree that yeah, a bit of criticism isn't bad, but if your entire intention for being on is just to start a shitstorm with the current staff online, why have that user around? As has been stated many times, Brian has had a history of insulting users and staff and has been quite toxic as of late.

So basically I did investigate it.

Wrong, go look at my first post.

I did? How did I not investigate it?

Why didn't you investigate the bans? You seem to be acting very irrational right now.
 
This ban is by far one of the most ridiculous threads I have seen in years.

The guy literally comes on just to insult people and it's not just poking. He's in trouble for a reason.

Let's get this straight...
 
The solution here for a ban appeal on someone with a very minimal ban history, and a rich history of being a great staff member is to week ban him for a name on a server.
Not only that, his name wasn't even offensive, it was just Admins are Badmins. Are staff that fragile that a name criticizing you is warrant of a week ban? Ridiculous.
 
The fact this needs a ban is childish, the fact @Vexx or @Kypari didn't investigate anything is ridiculous.

At the end of the day, he didn't really do anything serious enough to get banned. He didn't target anyone specific and it wasn't a personal attack against anyone (no idea about the context of the whole situation but still). Honestly the ban should just be removed and we move on from this since I don't like the idea of people banning others simply for poking fun at xG. It makes us look like a community that wants to censor people which we shouldn't ever become.

It's happening

That's fine with me, I'm fine with a ban to a day as he never got a kick warning. A month is excessive. I will also add a few more things here before this thread is closed.
 

To which I reply that there has been no prior history besides some actions I was already punished for. A week ban for not seeing a message is still too excessive, especially when the only evidence submitted was outdated evidence including stuff I was punished for, and a name change punishment that I didn't recognize at the time.

Well you are right, I should have gotten more to the story before putting in the ban, but I figured I'd do it because sourcebans wasn't working anyway, and @Kypari is one of my staff which of course I will trust him in most situations. As for @Brian's ban, I will propose we drop the ban down to a much lower time, as sure, a month ban may seem a bit much in the event he did not see his warnings. In the future though, please try to pay attention to chat in the event this comes up again. There's really no middle ground when it comes to warnings, we can't do voice because someone may have their sound muted, and we can only count on the user paying attention to the chat when it does come to warnings. When it comes to the time we should lower it to, I will propose we lower it to a week. The user in question still had the intention and a history of instigating our staff on the server, and I feel it would be completely unfair for us to drop the ban completely.

Also if you made yourself DL of the Runescape division I'm gonna have a right fit. I'll apply for that and bust my ass 11pm-3am everynight just to hold that title.

Yo, yo, yo, people not telling me we had a Runescape division? ya'll gotta let me know bout this shit. RUNESCAPE IS MY DRUG AND I'M A JUNKIE

With the announcement of RuneScape Mobile, I, one of the admins of the xG RuneScape Division, would like to remind you that the severity of RuneScape bans do not carry over if they are old. So, if you were banned 2 years back, for example, you may be safe to play now and are welcome in our growing community!!1!!!
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDdytgxJ6DE\
 

 
@Rabid Runescape DL @MineCrack
 
Also, please make sure to maintain a positive demeanor to show that you have changed when you appeal to Reddit J-Mods

@Vexx from the tf2 admin handbook that you wanted me to edit.
 

If you're going to bring up a persons ban history, then the content of the bans do matter.
 
The *procedure* does not matter when almost all of the bans are bogus (hell, there are plenty of cases where your *procedure* is not even applicable). Feel free to try and figure it which of the bans are legitimate. Based off of your post and others, no one has actually investigated. It is very easy to sweep things under the rug when you don't particularly like a person, unfortunately that won't work.

@Vexx
 

So did you even look at the ban reasons? Spoiler you didnt, you are a moron.