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Accepted Forum and gameserver ban appeal - Zeprus

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Zeprus

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What is your type of punishment and where were you banned from?

I am permanently banned from both the Gameservers and the forums. Benedevil was nice enough to unban my forum account for the sole purpose of posting ban appeals.

What is your SteamID?

STEAM_0:0:78737907
Sourcebans: *Click*

Who has punished you?

@Benedevil

Why were you punished?

For a varity of reasons, most notabily suspected usage of cheats, posession of cheats and toxic behaviour on the forums.
Here is a list of previous ban appeals of all sorts, sorted by date oldest to newest.:

Why should we revoke your punishment?

I never came to this community with the intend to cause trouble or being provocative/toxic and I don't consider myself a toxic person per se. From my perspective the whole situation started with a personal conflict between the ex-admin MiyukiMouse and me and escalated from there. I am sorry that it went that way and I should, probably, just have stopped talking to her and getting involved into stuff at one point or another.
About the alleged cheating and possesion of cheats, all I have to say is that, yes, I do own a copy of a Team Fortress 2 cheat, and, no, I have never used it on Blackwonder or any other major community. It also never has and never will touch my main account. Which is the only account I'm asking an unban for and if it makes you more comfortable I'm okay with all and any alt accounts of mine being banned. I also have not opened up the cheat for way over 2 years simply because I don't have the need to. I originally bought it because I'm generally interested in cheats and the way they work. Not least to know how to spot and counter them. I refer to it as "educational purpose" which sounds dumb and pretentious but it's a nice summary of my reasoning.

Obviously I'm aware that it sounds somewhat ridiculous and hard to believe. And it's up to everyone to make the decision for themselfes. But I still hope that you actually consider it and not just disregard everything I said here.
 
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Buster

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You're probably right that it started with you and Miyuki, however I remember it escalating for months and you continuing to cause trouble for attention. As for purchasing lmaobox for "educational purposes". Multiple people have used that as an excuse before, you're clearly aware of that, I think unless you can present something like an anti-cheat you tried to write or your own cheat that is based on lmaobox the whole self-teaching part is meaningless and should be disregarded. As you put it, it's hard to believe especially when it comes from someone with a history of rule breaking. Furthermore, unbanning you while knowing that you have used lmaobox on alts (even if on different servers) would make us hypocrites, as we have kept people banned for the same reason before. That's my two cents on this.
 
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Furthermore, unbanning you while knowing that you have have used lmaobox on alts (even if on different servers) would make us hypocrites, as we have kept people banned for the same reason before. That's my two cents on this.
puddin intensifies which is especially funny given the relationship they had here and at Panda.

Although I was a very new admin when Zeprus was banned for the last time and have less sway then older admins that were involved, I am in favor of having him unbanned. My personal talks with him have been pleasant, he has shown no ill will towards Blackwonder for quite a while now and has been cooperative about miscellaneous things we've talked about (like the shiny JB map update I'm really excited about).
 

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you continuing to cause trouble for attention
I'm rejecting that statement, I have never caused trouble for attention. I have caused trouble when it seemed necessary to get my point across in a discussion. Though, I'm using the term very carefully here because as mentioned in the post above it never was or is my intention to simply cause trouble.
I think unless you can present something like an anti-cheat you tried to write or your own cheat that is based on lmaobox the whole self-teaching part is meaningless and should be disregarded.
That won't be possible because I didn't analyze the code of the program. I'm lacking the knowledge to do that. I've only explored its behaviour with different configurations and situations. The only "proof" I could deliver is my rather good knowledge of how to spot cheaters. Which of course isn't really provable and probably largely subjective.
As you put it, it's hard to believe especially when it comes from someone with a history of rule breaking.
I'm not entirely sure which history of rulebreaking you're referring to. If it's the toxicity on here then yes I suppose I have some history. I can only repeat that I'm sorry it escelated in that way and it never was my intention.
Furthermore, unbanning you while knowing that you have have used lmaobox on alts (even if on different servers) would make us hypocrites, as we have kept people banned for the same reason before. That's my two cents on this.
This is a fair reason, if that's the general policy on here then so be it. But again, I have not aquired the cheat with malicious intentions and I'm strictly against cheaters and cheating in games. Which is obviously part of why I try to counteract it by educating myself and helping out by administrating servers. I would greatly appreciate an exception to the rule as you can imagine.
 

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Right, there were multiple instances where an appeal got declined because we found evidence of the person cheating on a different community server and I personally see little reason why we should trust you, who we had a bad experience with when we didn't trust others who we had no or little experience with. That's just what makes sense to me. Other than that I don't really care, you haven't been causing any trouble since so it seems harmless to unban you besides contradicting what we have been doing until now, you can never be sure though. In the end if the admins decide they want to make an exception because their heart is made of sugar and they also like to live dangerously at the same time (lul) then they will do it.
 

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Hello,
we appreciate your continued interest in this community. The way you left was not very pleasant and could have been for sure handled better on your end. There is no reason for us to hide potential management errors on our end, yet it was ultimately your actions that have lead us to the unfortunate decision.
Now, as I have reason to believe that this will no longer occur and I have reason to believe that you have made attempts in bettering your self, we are happy to welcome you back to Blackwonder.tf.
 
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