@JamesMiller - it is not our policy to enable people to 'shop around' for staff-members to hear their unban appeal case. In any event, it would do you no good. Worst case, you'd end up with me, or another member of management... and trust me, if you think the staff are arrogant, I have some surprises in store for you.
Your 'appeal' - such as it is - shows an
absolute bare minimum of effort put into it in order to secure your 'release'. In the section where most normal people respond fully and give some background, some details, and (most importantly) show some remorse and prove their new-found understanding of the reason that their actions were flawed, you've put, quite simply:
I like to play on this server and I broke the rules by mistake. I can give quality roleplay to this server now.
Let's break that bullshit down, shall we?
You like to play on this server. Great. I'm happy for you. However, that fact that you are a rulebreaker makes the reverse quite untrue. We do not like having you play on this server whilst you may still be in that rulebreaker frame of mind. Therefore, the fact you like it here has
NO BEARING WHATSOEVER on the question posed in this section, which was
Why should we unban you ?
You broke the rules by mistake. Well, that is good to know, but it doesn't really tell us you're not going to make that mistake again, does it? Obviously, to put "
I broke the rules deliberately" would be the mark of an idiot, but I guess if they did so in order to be
truthful and complete, and then went on to explain
why they've changed, and
what made them realise, I'd possibly still consider their rehabilitation an option, even if they were initially a dick or a troll. So, aside from just informing us that you were careless, didn't read the rules before joining (as advised in the load-screen to the mission itself, and within the Map screen), and that you recognise your own shortcomings here, your 'confession' doesn't really give us a great deal to work with, see? You messed up by mistake. Fine. How do we know you're not going to mess up
again?
You can give quality roleplay to this server now. Really? How come? Someone give you lessons? Did you have a dream about this and suddenly find you'd worked out how to not make mistakes?
Did a fairy-godmother appear in your kitchen and tell you that you will be unbanned and go to the ball, after all? In all seriousness, where is even the slightest shred of evidence that you have learned one iota from your past mistake? Are we supposed to just take your
word for it? "
immabegoodnowboss" - yeah, right! Like we'd believe that. You've not said one word to us that would indicate you have really
read the rules. You have not said one word to us that indicates you
regret your actions. You've not indicated
any understanding of the effect your 'mistake' has had on the other players whose games you messed up, or the time and efforts wasted by staff and those players, to compensate them and reinstate all their lost gear.
Bare minimum appeals get treated like the
empty promises they are, and are derided by our staff with my
FULL SUPPORT. If people don't care enough to try, we don't want 'em here! It's that simple. If they can't even think of a decent explanation for their ban appeal, what hope do they have for actually coming up with any high-quality roleplay? Hell, I have a side-bet already that you're either just going to walk away whining about how '
the admins here are Nazis' or that if we let you back in you'll probably fuck up again inside a week and be banned for another rule you didn't bother to read.
I have THOUSANDS of muppets whose virtual skulls adorn my office walls, along with their one-liner unban appeals. We get them every day. Some of them are at least FUNNY. Yours wasn't even long enough to be boring. Like this is, I expect.
I appreciate that on your SECOND post, you went into a
little more detail, and it was probably, by then, clear to you what Jefke actually expected to have received from you in your FIRST post... but you had to go and whine about him being a bit 'arrogant', didn't you? And then you whined harder another time, when he came back unimpressed with the fact that your 'little more detail' was indeed just that - a very
little more.
In your second whine, you played the 'other people had it easier than me' card. Epic fail. Trigger me hard, why not? What other people may or may not have written on
their ban appeals has absolutely fuck all with how
YOUR ban appeal will go down, and to point to other people's cases as a way of attempting to distract from your
own mistakes merely serves to show us how
vapid and hollow your promises might actually be - so they need testing - assuming you even make them properly in the first place, which you haven't.
I mean, what is wrong with you? You're a
guest here.
You want to play
here.
You fucked up. You need to
atone for that fuck up, or you will never be invited back to the party. You need to recognise that all the staff - and me -
are your fairy godmothers, and
we alone decide whether you can go to the ball, or the wall.
Which is it to be? The carriage turns back into a pumpkin at midnight tonight. If you want to play here, and experience the fun everyone else is talking about and enjoying, then you need to pull your finger out of your ass and stop being such a whiny dick. Stick your chest out and your chin up, and show the staff that you give a shit, that you care, that you can try, that you understand what you did wrong, and that you're sorry for it. Hell, grovel some; it won't hurt.
@Jefke V has my full authority to extend your ban
at will, if he's not had a decent, non-whiny, non-blame-shifting response from you by midnight UK time tonight. I see
no reason why he should have to waste his time trying to coax every bit of explanation or remorse out of you. Your job to prove you're worth a reprieve; not his job to have to fish it out of you.
There's your 'second opinion'. And I know you're thinking it's arrogant. That's not arrogance; that's
ownership, and a lifetime of experience dealing with 'bare-minimum' types like you're showing everyone that you are right now. Deal with it, or you know where the door is. Prove us wrong, step up to the mark, and you'll be welcomed.
Clock is ticking...
