Final Thoughts
It seems like my ban was based more on my toxic behavior so I'm mainly going to address that.
Again, I do apologize to anyone I've come across as toxic toward but I can assure you it was never my intention to genuinely discourage or attack you. It's just the way I joke around with some players on the server and outside the server and I hadn't realized that people outside of that group took that same banter me and many others are used to as a personal attack on themselves. Now that some people have shown their true feelings, I realize that it's unwanted and I should tone myself down as Hani said. However, I do wish people had made their feelings known earlier rather than later.
Communication works wonders. Like I stated earlier, Gabe used the in-game chat room thingy to deal with me targeting Hani with knives. We had a discussion, she told me I was ruining her enjoyment of the game, I stopped. Discussion is a simple thing and should always be encouraged instead of keeping quiet. Nothing good comes out of keeping quiet, just elongated suffering. If you don't feel comfortable approaching me, you can always contact a staff member to relay the message. You can even collect your own evidence whether it be screenshots, recordings, etc. to strengthen your case.
Bans are handed out based on the evidence provided. I do think there should have been more evidence gathered over a longer period of time rather than a single day. The clips that were used to ban me are inadequate and can easily be debunked, as explained by myself and a number of others. Now I'm not going to sit here and claim this was a fully emotionally driven ban because I do admit and have admitted to my wrong doings. However, it begins to be perceived in that way to outsiders when insufficient evidence is used and you have staff members saying they "hate" me in staff chat. The "ban em cause we hate em" ideology can easily be avoided with clear, unbiased, and concrete evidence.
It seems like my ban was based more on my toxic behavior so I'm mainly going to address that.
Again, I do apologize to anyone I've come across as toxic toward but I can assure you it was never my intention to genuinely discourage or attack you. It's just the way I joke around with some players on the server and outside the server and I hadn't realized that people outside of that group took that same banter me and many others are used to as a personal attack on themselves. Now that some people have shown their true feelings, I realize that it's unwanted and I should tone myself down as Hani said. However, I do wish people had made their feelings known earlier rather than later.
Communication works wonders. Like I stated earlier, Gabe used the in-game chat room thingy to deal with me targeting Hani with knives. We had a discussion, she told me I was ruining her enjoyment of the game, I stopped. Discussion is a simple thing and should always be encouraged instead of keeping quiet. Nothing good comes out of keeping quiet, just elongated suffering. If you don't feel comfortable approaching me, you can always contact a staff member to relay the message. You can even collect your own evidence whether it be screenshots, recordings, etc. to strengthen your case.
Bans are handed out based on the evidence provided. I do think there should have been more evidence gathered over a longer period of time rather than a single day. The clips that were used to ban me are inadequate and can easily be debunked, as explained by myself and a number of others. Now I'm not going to sit here and claim this was a fully emotionally driven ban because I do admit and have admitted to my wrong doings. However, it begins to be perceived in that way to outsiders when insufficient evidence is used and you have staff members saying they "hate" me in staff chat. The "ban em cause we hate em" ideology can easily be avoided with clear, unbiased, and concrete evidence.
