Username: kyro
Who are you reporting? 10000 Cold Knights
What server game mode is the report concerned with?
Jailbreak
What is the accused persons's SteamID? STEAM_0:1:14517728
What is the reason of the report? Personal Bias, Admin Misconduct, and Admin Abuse
Any other proof you have Threads I'm going to mention here:
https://blackwonder.tf/threads/kyros-ban-appeal.31490/
https://blackwonder.tf/threads/oris-team-ban-appeal.29619/
https://blackwonder.tf/threads/kyros-team-ban-appeal.31740/
I'm going to start out with the whole reason I'm making this a report instead of making another appeal.
10000 Cold Knights, known as 10k, has had a personal bias against me and my friends for years now, as seen in my team-ban appeal and Ori's team-ban appeal, he clearly despises us and wants us and anyone who associates themselves with us gone.
Anytime he mentions us he speaks of us like we are a group of dedicated trolls (a "Mafia" as he calls us.) who are trying to kill the server.
When in reality we are just a normal group of friends who like playing TF2. I would also like to say I myself have barely even broken any of the rules in the past year, and him thinking I should be permanently banned from all the blackwonder servers just because of the time I was a preteen douchebag on JB is outrageous.
Which is why I am making this a report, as I know he will never listen to anything I ever have to say, nor any of the other people who actually play on the servers with me.
So anyway, I'm going to talk about the threads I've posted above and how I think that they clearly show his personal bias against me and others.
Starting out with my exploiting ban, while I do agree that what I did was wrong, what 10k did blew everything out of proportion.
(I'm going to add some context to the demo Rodd provided. I was playing on jb_wetworks, and I would like to add on that at the time, I never knew that throwing a ball at the button to open cells was considered a punishable offense as I had done it with other moderators who were on before that point. But Rodd, who was the moderator on at the time, quickly warned me about how it was in fact now punishable, and I understood completely. But then another scout did said exploit and Rodd thought I was the one who did it, which is why I got punished in the first place.)
I would like to start out by saying, How fair does it sound that an admin can simply override other moderators punishments just because they're a rank higher? To me, that sounds very unfair. How can an admin simply decide that the person one level below them made the wrong choice and that *they* should be the one who decides the true punishment, and not the head-admin/owner?
And to anyone saying "that is unfair!", well it shouldn't be very hard to guess what 10k did.
He saw that Rodd had banned me for 30m, and without even being there to witness what even happened, he extended my punishment to the 2 weeks it "should've" been.
I would like to say, Yes, I do know that punishment scaling does exist for a reason. But to me, I think that it's mostly meant for the kinds of people who break a ton rules in such a short time frame that it can be very annoying having to keep banning/muting them over and over again.
But for mine and many others cases? Where most of our punishments reside in 2020 and before? I don't get why you would want to use the punishment scale for when they do such minuscule offenses, that everyone and their mother do.
I would also like to point out how weird it is that you extended my ban out of all the other bans that have the wrong scaling, why would you pick mine out of them all? To me, this again proves that you will do anything that you can to ban me. (And also the fact that the last time you extended someone's ban was back in 2020)
Next, I am going to talk about a friend of mine's appeal, Ori's team-ban appeal.
Ori was permanently team banned over a rule dispute, in which he thought that playing sweeper until one player died, then immediately stopping the game and doing meat-grinder was perfectly fine, as he had even seen moderators do it. But to 10k, that was clearly not fine, so he team-banned him for it.
But we're not here to talk about an old rule dispute, we're here to talk about what 10k said in his 2nd appeal.
When Ori appealed, it was during the time when the blackwonder servers (US-based JB servers, LA JB, US JB, etc.) were clearly dying due to mass reporting of the player base, and the original JB server that almost everyone I know came from, LA JB, is still dead to this day.
Ori saw as most of all the people who played Blu were either also permanently team banned like him, or they were too scared to even join Blu out of fear of also being team-banned, So Ori thought that since it had been 6 months he thought he had time to think about what he had done, But 10k didn't agree.
10k's response clearly shows his personal bias against us and anyone else who even dares to associate themselves with us, as he said himself "I have no intention of lifting the punishments on you or any of those in your circle.". and once again, him thinking of us being anything other than just a group of friends.
Finally, the whole reason I made this report, My team-ban appeal.
(I will once again give a TL;DW for those who cant/wont watch the clips sarge provided. The map was ba_hopjb and I decided I wanted to help out the blu team since they were previously suffering due to most of the reds being very skilled. I then proceeded to go warden and I tried to give orders, but nothing happened as my microphone was slightly unplugged and I had to plug it back in, but where my computer is placed it was really hard to do so as I had to reach back and find the right cable. [I'll reply with a picture of what that looks like])
I would like to respond to each thing 10k says since he locked the appeal before I could respond. And also so I can give my full opinion on why I think he is simply trying to find excuses to ban me.
"The sad part about this is that probably is what happened, or something close to it."
If you know this is what probably happened, Why are you so adamant on trying to find an excuse that it's not? To me, this is just 10k's way of trying to make it look like he's trying to take on my appeal in good faith. When in reality, he's not.
"Unfortunately, since I only have a round clip from Sarge as evidence, I'd have to take your word for it. Past experiences have shown that isn't an option."
Past experiences? I would like to ask, what kind of 'Past experiences'? I don't remember myself ever lying to a staff member openly, unless you think me being a toxic 12yr old is enough to say I'm untrustworthy. Either way, To me, this is just you looking for an excuse to decline the appeal.
"You're exactly the kind of individual to pretend to have a mic problem just to give your buddies on red a free round win, you've certainly done similar things previously."
Yes, I have done things similar to that as I *was* exactly the kind of individual that did stuff like that, But I am not that kind of person anymore, I don't ruin everyone's game just because I find it "funny". I would also like to point out that only two of my friends were online at the time, Billi and Anonymous (Anonymous is on Blu), So why would I give a freeday for one singular person? That makes zero sense, and to me just looks like another excuse.
"Well how about that? In trying to defend him and get him unbanned, all you've done is remind me exactly why I can't."
Remind you? What did he remind you of? Did he remind you that you haven't been active in the JB servers for months now and the fact that I am not the same person you knew back in 2020. And also using someone else's words to decline *my* appeal is the most obvious excuse I have ever seen.
"Sarge's poor life choices aside, you never should've been allowed to go on this long.
Declined, for good this time."
Okay, if the "I have no intention of lifting the punishments on you or any of those in your circle." didn't show his obvious bias, this definitely should.
10k clearly wants me gone from the entire community because he can't let his past grudges go, because who even says "you never should've been allowed to go on this long."?
This just proves that he thinks I'm a troll that's been ruining the servers ever since I was unteam-banned, When in reality I'm just a regular player who makes mistakes like all the rest.
Overall the whole appeal shows that you will use any excuse that you can get your hands on to ban me, and if that isn't proof enough of you being biased, then I don't know what is.
Which is why I want to say, I think 10k should be demoted, either put down to moderator or demoted entirely as he can't keep his personal biases and grudges to himself, it's hard to say how many people have left this community because of his targeting, but what I can say is he created an era of fear in BLW, people are too scared to do anything fun because they're too scared of being punished.
Who are you reporting? 10000 Cold Knights
What server game mode is the report concerned with?
Jailbreak
What is the accused persons's SteamID? STEAM_0:1:14517728
What is the reason of the report? Personal Bias, Admin Misconduct, and Admin Abuse
Any other proof you have Threads I'm going to mention here:
https://blackwonder.tf/threads/kyros-ban-appeal.31490/
https://blackwonder.tf/threads/oris-team-ban-appeal.29619/
https://blackwonder.tf/threads/kyros-team-ban-appeal.31740/
I'm going to start out with the whole reason I'm making this a report instead of making another appeal.
10000 Cold Knights, known as 10k, has had a personal bias against me and my friends for years now, as seen in my team-ban appeal and Ori's team-ban appeal, he clearly despises us and wants us and anyone who associates themselves with us gone.
Anytime he mentions us he speaks of us like we are a group of dedicated trolls (a "Mafia" as he calls us.) who are trying to kill the server.
When in reality we are just a normal group of friends who like playing TF2. I would also like to say I myself have barely even broken any of the rules in the past year, and him thinking I should be permanently banned from all the blackwonder servers just because of the time I was a preteen douchebag on JB is outrageous.
Which is why I am making this a report, as I know he will never listen to anything I ever have to say, nor any of the other people who actually play on the servers with me.
So anyway, I'm going to talk about the threads I've posted above and how I think that they clearly show his personal bias against me and others.
Starting out with my exploiting ban, while I do agree that what I did was wrong, what 10k did blew everything out of proportion.
(I'm going to add some context to the demo Rodd provided. I was playing on jb_wetworks, and I would like to add on that at the time, I never knew that throwing a ball at the button to open cells was considered a punishable offense as I had done it with other moderators who were on before that point. But Rodd, who was the moderator on at the time, quickly warned me about how it was in fact now punishable, and I understood completely. But then another scout did said exploit and Rodd thought I was the one who did it, which is why I got punished in the first place.)
I would like to start out by saying, How fair does it sound that an admin can simply override other moderators punishments just because they're a rank higher? To me, that sounds very unfair. How can an admin simply decide that the person one level below them made the wrong choice and that *they* should be the one who decides the true punishment, and not the head-admin/owner?
And to anyone saying "that is unfair!", well it shouldn't be very hard to guess what 10k did.
He saw that Rodd had banned me for 30m, and without even being there to witness what even happened, he extended my punishment to the 2 weeks it "should've" been.
I would like to say, Yes, I do know that punishment scaling does exist for a reason. But to me, I think that it's mostly meant for the kinds of people who break a ton rules in such a short time frame that it can be very annoying having to keep banning/muting them over and over again.
But for mine and many others cases? Where most of our punishments reside in 2020 and before? I don't get why you would want to use the punishment scale for when they do such minuscule offenses, that everyone and their mother do.
I would also like to point out how weird it is that you extended my ban out of all the other bans that have the wrong scaling, why would you pick mine out of them all? To me, this again proves that you will do anything that you can to ban me. (And also the fact that the last time you extended someone's ban was back in 2020)
Next, I am going to talk about a friend of mine's appeal, Ori's team-ban appeal.
Ori was permanently team banned over a rule dispute, in which he thought that playing sweeper until one player died, then immediately stopping the game and doing meat-grinder was perfectly fine, as he had even seen moderators do it. But to 10k, that was clearly not fine, so he team-banned him for it.
But we're not here to talk about an old rule dispute, we're here to talk about what 10k said in his 2nd appeal.
When Ori appealed, it was during the time when the blackwonder servers (US-based JB servers, LA JB, US JB, etc.) were clearly dying due to mass reporting of the player base, and the original JB server that almost everyone I know came from, LA JB, is still dead to this day.
Ori saw as most of all the people who played Blu were either also permanently team banned like him, or they were too scared to even join Blu out of fear of also being team-banned, So Ori thought that since it had been 6 months he thought he had time to think about what he had done, But 10k didn't agree.
10k's response clearly shows his personal bias against us and anyone else who even dares to associate themselves with us, as he said himself "I have no intention of lifting the punishments on you or any of those in your circle.". and once again, him thinking of us being anything other than just a group of friends.
Finally, the whole reason I made this report, My team-ban appeal.
(I will once again give a TL;DW for those who cant/wont watch the clips sarge provided. The map was ba_hopjb and I decided I wanted to help out the blu team since they were previously suffering due to most of the reds being very skilled. I then proceeded to go warden and I tried to give orders, but nothing happened as my microphone was slightly unplugged and I had to plug it back in, but where my computer is placed it was really hard to do so as I had to reach back and find the right cable. [I'll reply with a picture of what that looks like])
I would like to respond to each thing 10k says since he locked the appeal before I could respond. And also so I can give my full opinion on why I think he is simply trying to find excuses to ban me.
"The sad part about this is that probably is what happened, or something close to it."
If you know this is what probably happened, Why are you so adamant on trying to find an excuse that it's not? To me, this is just 10k's way of trying to make it look like he's trying to take on my appeal in good faith. When in reality, he's not.
"Unfortunately, since I only have a round clip from Sarge as evidence, I'd have to take your word for it. Past experiences have shown that isn't an option."
Past experiences? I would like to ask, what kind of 'Past experiences'? I don't remember myself ever lying to a staff member openly, unless you think me being a toxic 12yr old is enough to say I'm untrustworthy. Either way, To me, this is just you looking for an excuse to decline the appeal.
"You're exactly the kind of individual to pretend to have a mic problem just to give your buddies on red a free round win, you've certainly done similar things previously."
Yes, I have done things similar to that as I *was* exactly the kind of individual that did stuff like that, But I am not that kind of person anymore, I don't ruin everyone's game just because I find it "funny". I would also like to point out that only two of my friends were online at the time, Billi and Anonymous (Anonymous is on Blu), So why would I give a freeday for one singular person? That makes zero sense, and to me just looks like another excuse.
"Well how about that? In trying to defend him and get him unbanned, all you've done is remind me exactly why I can't."
Remind you? What did he remind you of? Did he remind you that you haven't been active in the JB servers for months now and the fact that I am not the same person you knew back in 2020. And also using someone else's words to decline *my* appeal is the most obvious excuse I have ever seen.
"Sarge's poor life choices aside, you never should've been allowed to go on this long.
Declined, for good this time."
Okay, if the "I have no intention of lifting the punishments on you or any of those in your circle." didn't show his obvious bias, this definitely should.
10k clearly wants me gone from the entire community because he can't let his past grudges go, because who even says "you never should've been allowed to go on this long."?
This just proves that he thinks I'm a troll that's been ruining the servers ever since I was unteam-banned, When in reality I'm just a regular player who makes mistakes like all the rest.
Overall the whole appeal shows that you will use any excuse that you can get your hands on to ban me, and if that isn't proof enough of you being biased, then I don't know what is.
Which is why I want to say, I think 10k should be demoted, either put down to moderator or demoted entirely as he can't keep his personal biases and grudges to himself, it's hard to say how many people have left this community because of his targeting, but what I can say is he created an era of fear in BLW, people are too scared to do anything fun because they're too scared of being punished.