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RE: Peter's Ban Appeal 2 - Peter - 02-16-2025
At this point, it’s clear that this is no longer about enforcing rules against inappropriate content but rather about nitpicking my humor due to a personal grudge. Humor is inherently subjective, and there are countless five-letter words that could have fit the sentence and made it amusing in different ways. The ambiguity itself was part of the joke, but no matter what answer I give, it’s obvious that it will just be used to justify my ban further. It's entirely fair if you or other staff don’t appreciate my jokes or messages—that’s your opinion, and I respect that. However, personal taste is completely separate from the objective reality of my message. The fact remains that I did not include anything explicitly inappropriate, and any negative interpretation is purely based on assumption.
Rather than continue debating something that has little to do with actual rule enforcement, I’ll step away and await a final decision. If nothing else comes from this appeal, I hope at least some clarity is added to the rules, because punishing someone over a censored and ambiguous chat message is an absurd precedent for this moderation team to set.
RE: Peter's Ban Appeal 2 - Cryptic Salsa - 02-16-2025
im not sure what happened if i missed a comment or voice i apologise, but that does not make it ok to also break rules by baiting responses from a very sus joke
on another note i love the signature
RE: Peter's Ban Appeal 2 - Cimag - 02-16-2025
>Rule: don't make pedo jokes
>Comment : "I like to have sex with *****"
>Get banned
>Mfw when admins don't appreciate the ambiguity as a joke and five letter words
>"To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty"
RE: Peter's Ban Appeal 2 - Damien1579 - 02-16-2025
The logic is not tracking at all, you knew what you were doing and are mad you got warned for it.
-1 serve out your time
RE: Peter's Ban Appeal 2 - Rox5tar01 - 02-16-2025
I was the one who gave you that verbal on 1/16/2025 for the groomer joke. A big portion of the reason why I did a verbal was because (while I don't have those logs on my end) I explained in great detail the issues with pedo/grooming jokes as far as the rules go, and you seemed genuinely apologetic and stated you would read the rules to prevent further issues. Clearly that has not happened. Since the explanation seems to have not worked, I'll explain it again.
Dinkleberg servers are ZERO TOLERANCE for any sort of jokes or comments regarding Pedophilia (both the act and people who have committed the act), Grooming, Rape, or any other sort of comments regarding anything sexual regarding minors. Hell, even sex jokes not involving minors is a pretty thin sheet of ice. This is intentional, as when it creates as little grey area as possible for what's allowed regarding those types of conversations. I explained this to you when I gave you the verbal warn, as well as you acknowledging that you would read the rules. Here is the rule in-case you didn't read it the first time we talked about it: "Pedophiles are not allowed on Dinks and neither are pedophilic jokes or conversations about pedophiles.".
Your Epstein joke clearly was not referring to him as a business man. Common sense that saying that someone "knew Epstein" (AKA the child sex offender) wouldn't be okay. Let's read the rules again: "Pedophiles are not allowed on Dinks and neither are pedophilic jokes or conversations about pedophiles". You may not agree with this, but that's the way the rules are. You are trying to ride the grey area to make a joke, and it's simply not okay.
Same thing in today's instance. You specifically censored out the word phone and said "hey kids do you want to see a grown mans", followed by a 5 letter censor. There was no reason to censor it except to make an inappropriate joke.
You've been told multiple times times that it is simply not okay to make these kinds of jokes, and yet you keep doing it (3 times in one month is crazy dude) either by justifying it by "spirit of the rules", or "it's not that bad", or a "but they didn't get in trouble" comment. Just don't make jokes about that kinda stuff; it's not that hard. I understand you don't like it, but that's the way things are if you want to continue to be on this server.
-1 if that's not obvious. Serve your ban, come back and stop making those kinds of jokes. Do better.
RE: Peter's Ban Appeal 2 - Kid Amnesiac - 02-16-2025
As someone that was present when the message in question was posted it was fairly obvious that nobody found the "joke" funny. Between this and your Epstein "joke" from a few weeks ago it's clear that maybe you need to read the room. Think before you post things that could be interpreted in a negative context by others even if that's not your intention, it's common sense.
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RE: Peter's Ban Appeal 2 - Saylor Twift - 02-16-2025
Most of what happened has already been addressed. Didn't really hear anyone else say anything but I might have missed it which if true I apologize. One additional, somewhat irrelevant, question I have for you though is what 5 letter word were you calling me in PM's after I warned you? With all this discussion on the ambiguity of starred out words, I'm just curious.
RE: Peter's Ban Appeal 2 - Peter - 02-16-2025
(02-16-2025, 05:28 AM)Saylor Twift Wrote: Most of what happened has already been addressed. Didn't really hear anyone else say anything but I might have missed it which if true I apologize. One additional, somewhat irrelevant, question I have for you though is what 5 letter word were you calling me in PM's after I warned you? With all this discussion on the ambiguity of starred out words, I'm just curious.
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RE: Peter's Ban Appeal 2 - tiefling lesbian - 02-16-2025
(02-16-2025, 05:00 AM)Peter Wrote: there are countless five-letter words that could have fit the sentence and made it amusing in different waysCan you name a few? I'm just trying to understand the joke
RE: Peter's Ban Appeal 2 - bunniey - 02-16-2025
(02-16-2025, 04:34 AM)Peter Wrote: any attempt at humor—no matter how harmless—is treated as a rule violation
If the only way you can be funny is talking about pedophiles, or being sexist/racist/transphobic, maybe you're just not funny and shouldn't try to be?
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