Denied Nevodka's Appeal

Your In Game Nickname:

nevodka​

Your Steam ID:

STEAM_0:1:37797114​

Which Server:

West​

Why you should be unbanned:

The reason given for my ban was " had a look at the demo multiple times, the mines were activated before they stepped near them. The two victims were not looking at the mine when they moved towards it or when they stepped on it."

I have specific screenshots and tick marks showing the mines were indeed looked at prior to explosion by one player in particular other than myself, and yet I was told this was not true by this admin reviewing.​

Evidence of Innocence:

These screenshots are all of a single player, who also happened to be the one who exploded the first mine. The first two screenshots both quite clearly show the player down at this mine distinguished by its turquoise hue.

The second two screenshots following show the same player, at an earlier time, looking directly at the second mine distinguished by its whiter hue.

In both these instances the player can clearly be seen looking at the mines, within distance of activating them, one in the case and one in the hallway. The admin who issued my ban claimed this was not true.

If these seems too implausible to believe, consider the possibility that this player knew how the mines operated and thus willingly activated the mine in the case and unwittingly assumed the turquoise mine was also activated, and in "deactivating" it prior to passing had actually done the opposite.

In any case this was not a very long ban, but I believe it is important given there is clear plausible deniability here that you distinguish in the rules that simply "[placing] down the mines in the middle of the entrance to the elevator room" on whitehouse is enough to ban somebody, because it should be clear then if this ban is upheld that moving the mines at all is traitorous/you are responsible if they are activated and then stepped on.

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@Wex will respond to this when he can. Until then thank you for being patient!

 

Currently busy to give a full response but just have a look at this video.

 

Anywho, regardless of the opinions posted here the ban is up soon, so this can be closed.

However I would still like to hear from an admin about the policy behind the mines here, not some random player's, thank you.

 

Sorry for the late response, I've been busy traveling most of the day.

Firstly, I'd like to point out that there is no specific ruling about this if I recall correctly. My apologies, I should have been more clear in this report (http://www.seriousgmod.com/threads/report-against-nevodka.25957/).
I used admins discretion to punish you for this action because you had no valid reason to place down those mines as an innocent. Your actions caused the death of 2 innocents while heavily damaging another.

After discussing with multiple admins, the mines can only be activated when directly looking at it. The mine may have been in the player's screen, but he wasn't directly looking at it. Same goes for the 2nd victim.
The 2nd mine looked like it could have been a graphical glitch or part of a broken prop so it might have been hard to tell. It was clear that those players had no intentions of activating the mines and killing themselves, they were just trying to move into the elevator room.

Thread Open for 24 hours for discussion.
Appeal: Denied