Steam Name: SkipperPlaysTW™
Name of which you were banned: Skippy
Date when you were banned: 18/10/2014
Action leading to ban: Questioning my removal of jurisdictions over freedom of speech; instigating a policy that I have had for 2 years. Please read more below where it is less messy.
Why should you be unbanned: I was banned for a single sentence questioning my rights; it had nothing overly offensive, besides beginning the sentence by swearing at the admin but that is to be explained further down. In short I broke no rules leading to a permanent ban, in addition there was no warning before.
PlayerID: I am unaware, I was banned when I shouldn't have been and as such have no clue how to get hold of my ID seeing as I no longer have access to the server.
Why I was wrongly banned:
Before I begin, please take a note of all of your server rules; I have listed them for you below; none of these I broke:
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1. No shooting (I didn't shoot)
2. Bayonets only (Yep)
3. No racism or discrimination of any kind (I was neither racist nor discriminant)
4. Do not abuse admins (Well the admins abused me)
5. Line infantry only (Ofc)
6. No impersonation (Yep)
7. No recruiting (Yep)
8. Do not delay the rounds (I didn't delay the round, I got back from fixing my sound and allowed the last man to duel whilst typing to the admin)
9. Do not spam the chat (I didn't)
10.Do not instigate arguements (I didn't)
11. No double spawning (I didn't)
So I spent 20 minutes attempting to get on the server with goddamn awful internet; I am not sure if it was picked up on the logs but I kept joining and instantly losing connection. Anyway this put me in a sour mood however I am not the sort of person to break rules purely out of being in a negative mood. When I got into the server my sound broke, as you can see from the chat, and I found out what it was (as you can see from my chat saying "ah there we are" or something along those lines) whilst re-installing the drivers for the speakers I found myself running across to join the fight whilst commenting in chat about my teammates being alive. Before I got to the fight the round ended, my drivers still installing. My drivers finally installed with 2 opponents left; both in duels. I managed to get over there then did as almost EVERYONE of any level of honour does on the server and waited for them to duel; not necessarily out of honour but out of the fact that I have a policy from my old regimental days where you do not join a fight with 2 people or more already in due to the percentage chance of teamkilling flying through the roof; something I am more likely to be banned for; so I did as many many many many many many many (times those many's by 1,000,000) people do and allowed them to duel. This is not considered delay as both fights ended for victories for my side so time would not have been effected; bar me getting in the way of my teammates accidently; and everyone seems to do it at the end of the round on this server. It is part of the status quo. Anyway, admin complained at me because he no doubt was having a bad day and wanted to let it out on someone. Being a reasonable guy and understanding the power of words over actions I attempted to sit down at the table and explain myself to the admin, without letting me finish what I was saying the trigger-happiness began and I was slain.
So next round I typed my response; I admit it did not begin civilized but that was because I was in a poor mood and this guy was evidentially having a bad day and thus attempting to blame it on me. It then evens out to me explaining about him removing my rights and jurisdictions; please note this breaks no rules, furthermore it actually is supported by both UK and EU law; nothing racist nor discriminating was put in there, it was simply a complaint; something people need to learn to build up from; and I was banned from the server for this, adding to my lack of basic rights and jurisdictions, permanently.
I would like to link you to something seeing as I foresee most peoples responses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.
2. The freedom and pluralism of the media shall be respected.In addition it would be helpful to look up the BBFC Video recordings act which means that this is linked in with video games.
Thank you for your time.