-Unban request for Rotten Ronald
Hello all administrators who may be inclined to become involved.
It was a dark, cold winter night, december the 13th (2013) i believe, at around 5:30, atlantic time. I was playing on your 15th Humans Vs. Bots server and engaging in some light social conversation via chat as i so usually do. The administrator, and I will do my very best to not point fingers and be overly accusatory, seemed this night particularly aggressive in his methods, banning many players for seemingly nothing, with little or no warning for the most part. Sadly, I cannot recall who he was, but that doesn't matter.
At one point, one of the players made some comment about nazism in relation to the prussians who were at that point acting as the bots. The admin administered a warning against comments making light of nazism, which is more or less understandable, as it is as he put it "a sensitive topic". Personally, I feel as though it was mostly hypersensitivity, especially considering the people the player in question was calling nazis were made of computer code and as such have no feelings. I made a comment to the community stating that the administrator's methods were harsh, to which the administrator responded something along the lines of "you are in my world now, you only exist because I allow you to". In response, i commented that this all sounded rather autocratic.
Everything up to this point was said mostly in jest, and i continued playing in good spirits, engaging in various shenanigans with other players all the whilst slaying a great many prussian assailants. However, it was after a rather long string of temp-bans and perma-bans that I grew enraged at the blatant disregard for democracy and procedure this administrator was exemplifying. In my angered state, I commented something along the lines of "admin sees himself as the sole source of authority on this server and systematically eliminates all players who disagree with his worldview, yet grows angry when we reference hitler", which I presently note was a simple statement of his hypocrisy and not a joke about nazism. Less than thirty seconds later, i found myself with a permanent ban, having not been notified of the reason of my ban and having not received any warning whatsoever.
Honestly, If I cared at all, I would launch a formal complaint about abuse of power, but I just want to kill bots. However, I think you fine folks should be notified about certain unprofessional behavioural traits of certain administrators, just to keep an eye on them. This is my story, do with it what you will.
Defender of democracy, out.
ps. I'm running M&B via a port on macintosh, so I cannot undergo the steps to find my ID. Sorreh
-Rotten Ronald