[VolfVoss]

Judging by this rough draft, I was unfairly muted.

In accordance with this rough draft it could be argued that your 3 day mute was unfair. 

Let's humor your situation for a moment though:

You've been a part of this community since May 2018 (in accordance with forums) and are a former TTT staff member. 

You've played over 2400 hours on Gmod which I'd say a large portion is part of the Dinkleberg's community.

I think it's more than adequate to say you're familiar with the rules of the community. 

I know you're familiar with the rules, because after posting your racial slur it was deleted. 

Now, should someone who has so much experience in the community that decides to KNOWINGLY violate a rule be treated just like a brand new player who doesn't know any different?

That is the real complexity of circumstances presented. 

I was the one who Muted you for the 3 days, I felt it was still a very minor punishment for someone with so much experience in the community.  It's nothing personal, I'd expect the same if not worse done to me if I had done such a thing. 

Moral of the story, keep such things in DM's and away from the community. 

Luckily, there's legitimate guidelines coming out to prevent such incidents from happening again. 

Except you wouldn't have muted a brand new player for 3 days. Why are they treated as if they're babies and "they don't know any better?" Seems like I'm being treated differently just because I'm supposed to know the rules, which is unfair in my eyes.
 

I have to agree with Laced he didn't receive any warnings and was skipped to a mute. IMO that isn't fair no matter how long someone here shouldn't determine how harsh a punishment is or shouldn't be.

You're both correct that this could be unfair, it is unfair one might say to expect members of the community to look at the rules in a hope to not break them; and it may also be unfair to hope that members of the community wouldn't willingly break rules for kicks and giggles.  

You're both correct that Laced was not warned for violating a rule that he knew to be in place. 

The overall purpose of the original thread is to create a sort of education for actions. 

You violate a rule, here are the punishments that could be dealt to you. 

Again, my thread is NOT the actual punishment list. It was a brain child that I had and I wanted feed back on it for discussion, To weigh in on peoples perspectives of lenient and strict.

And I've obviously caused this thread to digress from it's original purpose, for that I apologize. 

I apologize Laced for not giving you a warning and jumping straight to a mute.