Denied DonGirses's Appeal

Your In Game Nickname:

DonGirses​

Your Steam ID:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/dongirses​

Which Server:

West 2​

Why you should be unbanned:

Someone else posted offensive or inappropriate links earlier in the server. When he got banned, and I did a little joke by posting "porn.com", which should be pretty obvious what it is, it's the whole reason I put that. Then I got banned for a month. Isn't that a little excessive for just a simple joke?​

Evidence of Innocence:

How am I supposed to capture any evidence?​

 

Oh, I just saved a snippit for just this occasion:

It's pretty obvious it's against the rules. and there is no set protocol for this offense so that is at the discretion of the admins.


Not sure which admin banned you but @irritatingness is online now

EDIT: Irritatingness did ban you and will respond as soon as possible

 

Hi there. Thanks for appealing.

Unfortunately, I'll be denying this appeal. Let me break this down for you, so that you can better understand my reasoning.

1. What you and your buddies were doing was quite obviously group trolling.

2. Our community does not allow graphic content, especially porn. What you posted was a porn link. We don't tolerate this for obvious reasons.

3. Links such as the one you posted are notorious for malicious content and could easily spread a virus to any player that should choose to follow the link you provided. I know that what you posted is easily identifiable from the name, but still, there's complications that you couldn't anticipate such as a non-english speaking user just wondering what that link could be.

Maybe what you did would be considered a lighthearted joke to you and many others, but there are consequences to the things we do, and it would be wise to consider those before doing something such as this. It also doesn't bode well that there were several warnings for the same behavior issued in public chat, nor that someone had JUST been banned for the same reasons. Please sit out the ban with grace, and when you come back, be a bit more careful with whatever jokes you may think are appropriate.


Should you need to discuss this further, please feel free to PM me on the forums.