User name: Geobot_
What's your username?
Geoboat_
What is your type of punishment?
Ban
Where were you banned from? Servers
What is your SteamID?
STEAM_0:1:204539903
Who has punished you?
Jim blw.tf
Why were you punished?
Unprovably/apparently joining with an alt as a ban avoidance and exploiting.
Why should we revoke your punishment?
So, I have recently done exploiting and have been banned for 2 weeks. As of right now it will show permamently, but Hey Ya should be able to state that 2 weeks were intended at that time. Later I have read an accusation of me avoiding through an alt. After receiving this confusing information I was worried what will happen so that I have decided to post an apology into the discord server. I will link it later in the text because it is quite important for a different aspect. A day after my apology I have tried to join a blw server just randomly and I have seen that I was able to join and did not receive any punishment so that I have thought my actions have changed something. But on June 14th, the same date the appeal has been written I have received a permament ban by Jim around 10 pm CET. I have messaged him and was told to leave after also seeing the reason was that I have apparently exploited. And here is the most important aspect that should be clear (several points): 1. The exploit allows to join in as a living spectator and even even change your team in the middle of the round 2. The exploit can only be performed during arena setup on custom arena modes of community servers 3. Each and every player joins as a spectator until chosen a team in tf2.
But I was banned for apparently exploiting just by being on the spectator team until joining red team. Added to that I have been banned for avoidance despite the fact I did not receive a definition of which servers to not join at all. I was directly messaged by Jim several times I can link screenshots and basicly only on my last requested explanation he made clear not to leave the specific server but not join any blw.tf server.
Here is my apology containing the information around the exploit and even the fact that blackwonder could probably make it less harmful by restricting to select a team somehow.
https://media.discordapp.net/attach...253973573642/unknown.png?width=767&height=461
In the end my two points are that first off there is no provable avoidance of the first ban I have received and that there also was no further exploiting by being on the spectator team. Since punishing that would be wrong and the exploit has a small time window to work and requires several commands and its just not evidential at all.
At the current state I am being told not to join any blw.tf servers and I will not act against this
.
The first ban initiated by Hey Ya was apparently meant to last 2 weeks but it let me join again recently. I had to edit this later on. I did not avoid the ban I just thought it has been canceled since the console did not keep me from joining (after the screenshot apology).
You can also directly message my discord Geobot_#7870
In order to ask for other or more detail. Also I have kept screenshots of the conversation with Jim on my HDD in order to prove he did not specify his command to me the first time and if it is needed for anything else.
I would also rather send these screenshots to any staff asking over discord in dm in order to not expose Jim out of respect for his privacy.
What's your username?
Geoboat_
What is your type of punishment?
Ban
Where were you banned from? Servers
What is your SteamID?
STEAM_0:1:204539903
Who has punished you?
Jim blw.tf
Why were you punished?
Unprovably/apparently joining with an alt as a ban avoidance and exploiting.
Why should we revoke your punishment?
So, I have recently done exploiting and have been banned for 2 weeks. As of right now it will show permamently, but Hey Ya should be able to state that 2 weeks were intended at that time. Later I have read an accusation of me avoiding through an alt. After receiving this confusing information I was worried what will happen so that I have decided to post an apology into the discord server. I will link it later in the text because it is quite important for a different aspect. A day after my apology I have tried to join a blw server just randomly and I have seen that I was able to join and did not receive any punishment so that I have thought my actions have changed something. But on June 14th, the same date the appeal has been written I have received a permament ban by Jim around 10 pm CET. I have messaged him and was told to leave after also seeing the reason was that I have apparently exploited. And here is the most important aspect that should be clear (several points): 1. The exploit allows to join in as a living spectator and even even change your team in the middle of the round 2. The exploit can only be performed during arena setup on custom arena modes of community servers 3. Each and every player joins as a spectator until chosen a team in tf2.
But I was banned for apparently exploiting just by being on the spectator team until joining red team. Added to that I have been banned for avoidance despite the fact I did not receive a definition of which servers to not join at all. I was directly messaged by Jim several times I can link screenshots and basicly only on my last requested explanation he made clear not to leave the specific server but not join any blw.tf server.
Here is my apology containing the information around the exploit and even the fact that blackwonder could probably make it less harmful by restricting to select a team somehow.
https://media.discordapp.net/attach...253973573642/unknown.png?width=767&height=461
In the end my two points are that first off there is no provable avoidance of the first ban I have received and that there also was no further exploiting by being on the spectator team. Since punishing that would be wrong and the exploit has a small time window to work and requires several commands and its just not evidential at all.
At the current state I am being told not to join any blw.tf servers and I will not act against this
.
The first ban initiated by Hey Ya was apparently meant to last 2 weeks but it let me join again recently. I had to edit this later on. I did not avoid the ban I just thought it has been canceled since the console did not keep me from joining (after the screenshot apology).
You can also directly message my discord Geobot_#7870
In order to ask for other or more detail. Also I have kept screenshots of the conversation with Jim on my HDD in order to prove he did not specify his command to me the first time and if it is needed for anything else.
I would also rather send these screenshots to any staff asking over discord in dm in order to not expose Jim out of respect for his privacy.
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