Server: GTA RP
Character Name: Alex wong
Steam ID: 76561198170356882
Ban ID (just the numbers): 19011
Ban Reason: C1.7 - Common Sense. As a roleplay game, Every situation is different and not everything can be detailed within these rules and so it is important to remember this is an adult community and some things simply come down to common sense.
Why do you think you were banned: I was banned because I shared an edited image of another player, that was completely innapropriate in many ways.
It was against the community guidelines putting them in the discord channels and I do genuinely deeply regret it. Since my ban I have came to realise the impact of such an image, may have on the community and the player himself.
I take no pride on what I chose to do that day, But I take full responsibility for it, It is nobody elses fault other than myself, I again really do apologise to all parties that it affected.
Why should we unban you: I have taken a considerable amount of time away from the community, and came to realise a few things.
I've realised what it means to be a member of the community. While I have been away from RPUK I have genuinely missed being able to RP on the server. Ive missed all of the interactions I used to have with members of the community and on the server.
I've realised to take RPUK being a mature adult community more seriously. I thought the image that I sent, at the time, was funny. But looking back after taking this time away from the server, That it really isnt, It was a poor attempt at a funny joke, and the timing of it all was very bad. If I could go back in time, I wouldn't even consider creating the image.
At the time of my ban, I took the time to reach out to some of the parties involved, and apologised profusely, I was told that nothing was taken to heart and wasnt taken in offense. This does not make it right in any way shape or form but I want it to be known that I pretty quickly realised how distasteful it was, and felt the need to express my apologies as soon as possible, In order to not offend anyone too much.
I was a member of the community for over 4 Years. I created my main character, Alex Wong' who was a crazy autistic character. Alex has been involved in literally countless really good RP scenarios. He has been involved in so many areas of the server. Gang Roleplay, Roleplaying with the Police, Roleplaying with NHS and has been present in court cases. Aswell as interacting with numerous player-owned businesses.
I also had my 'Mike Raffone' character, Who was a member of Gruppe Seches, Who later turned a biker. He was also involved in numerous positive role-playing scenarios.
As much as I have been involved in these good roleplay scenarios, I am not ignorant to my disgusting history with rulebreaks.
When Sammy listed all of my bans and notes on my record during my last appeal, It genuinely sickened me. I suppose I did not realise how bad my history really was. And thank you to the staff who dealt with that.
My history is sickening, and is nothing I take any pride in at all, No shape or form. I fully acknowledge all of my offenses. All 20 notes on record, and all 7 bans on my record.
The reasons for them bans are;
- C2.3 (Combat Logging) .
- Exploiting.
- C1.1 (Bullying) and C1.9 (Age restrictions) .
- G3.1 (OOC information)
- Temporary Ban for G1.1 (RVDM) -
- Temporary Ban for C1.7 (Common Sense)
and my final ban is C1.7, Which I am appealing right now.
It goes without saying really that all of these offences are very serious offenses for so many reasons.
I have taken the time to think about these bans and reflect on them and what they truly mean and the affect they have on the roleplay on the server.
C2.3 is the act of combat logging, Which is logging out of an active scenario to avoid RP that may not go in your way. This ban was placed on me for Alt F4 due to my game crashing, This happened again in the same scenario. At the time I knew no better other than to do this. Reflecting on the situation, I should have made some sort of attempt to reach out to either the parties involved, and/or admins, To inform this of this situation, and have them informed what I needed to do to fix myself before actually doing it.
Exploiting is the act of exploiting the game's servers for your own benefit or using a glitch for your own benefit. In my situation, I abused being able to log out of the server, and log back into the server to reset the timer, Whilst being down on the floor. I did this multiple times, Due to a bug I was experiencing. At the time of my ban, and right now. I have taken the time to reflect on it, I should have informed a member of staff or an admin about the situation that was occurring, and if needs be, Submit a compensation request for the items lost, Along with evidence of the bug I was experiencing. This would have completely avoided the ban that was placed on me. I was over a year into playing on the server, and should have knew better than this, and acted accordingly. But did not, For this I am sorry.
A few months later I was banned for Bullying and being underage. I resolved me being underage with TBJ and Sammy in Teamspeak. As for bullying. What was said towards the player in question It was disgusting, and completely out of order, and seriously not appropriate for the community.
I soon realised this, and reached out to the player to express my sincere apologies and attempted to make amends in which we did and I still speak to him to this day. If the clocks could be reversed, I would not have made such a comment, and in doing so, Would not have been banned.
G3.1, Known as using OOC information whilst IC was placed on me because I created a report against a player, and whilst submitting evidence for this report, I showed that I was in a call with a player, Who was on the server at the time, Dead at the time, and also had a twitch stream open. I did not use any information from either the player I was in the call with, Nor the twitch stream. This was cleared up in my original appeal. Both streams were not playing and were not in any way used for any level of advantage. Reflecting on this ban and situation, I realise that It was not appropriate to have either stream open, despite having both muted. As subconsciously it may sway my decisions within RP, But in this case I can say wholeheartedly. It did not. If I could go back, I would just simply close both streams, considering they were both irrelevant anyways.
In all honesty, I am genuinely struggling to cast my mind back to my 2 temporary bans, For RVDM and Common Sense (G1.1 and C1.7). I would love it if I was assisted in casting my mind back to these two offenses, As I genuinely do want to explain myself, and how I could have done better in them specific scenarios.
As for my current ban for C1.7 (Common Sense), I have explained in this appeal why it is unacceptable, In short. I was banned for sharing seriously inappropriate images of a players character in an odd situation, which for obvious reasons is not acceptable within this community. Everything about the offence is just so wrong.
I have also got many kicks on my record.
These reasons are:
- Kicked for Idling (81x)
- Kick for misuse of OOC (2x)
- Kick for Loitering (6x)
Just seeing those numbers alone, It makes me feel a certain way about my history.
I was kicked for loitering, Which is a repeated offense. It is unacceptable that I was kicked 6 times of this, and can only express my apologies to the staff for this, I wasted your time for kicking me for next to no reason, Alst I had to do was move on, and these would not be on my record.
Aswell as loitering, I was kicked for misuse of OOC twice. Similarly to the kicks for loitering, Had I have just moved on, and not used OOC for the wrong reasons, These kicks would not be on my record. For wasting the time of the staff, and any other parties that may have been involved, I am very sorry.
My kicks for idling is awful. 81 times is horrendous. If I needed to be away from my PC for an extended amount of time, I should have just logged off of the server. Avoiding this situation.
I also have warnings for exploiting, Powergaming and paycheck farming.
Again, Alst I can do now is apologise to all parties involved for this. I cannot think back to the situations in question, So again, If I could be reminded of these situations, I would welcome the opportunity to explain them, and maybe be able to put my thought process into writing, and explain how I could have done things better.
I also want to profusely apologise for the incident that happened in discord that led me to also being banned from the discord server and also the forums which I believe was me posting pictures on a friendly's page not maliciously.
In conclusion, I am not really not proud of many things that are tied to my name with RPUK, It is really poor from me. I can only hope and pray that I am given another opportunity to put this all in the past. I understand that I have been given this opportunity 6 times in the past. But during my 6 months away from the server, Ive came to realise the importance of the server to me, I have met so many people on the server that I consider to be friends. The time away has made me realise how much I actually enjoyed the server, and I can not put into words how apologetic I am for letting you down time and time again. If I were to be granted another chance at the server, I can promise with all my heart that you will not regret it. This time I want to prove that I am suitable for the community and that the same mistakes will not be made. I understand that this is a massive ask, I can only hope and dream that I am taken seriously with this appeal but It is completely understandable that it may not, Because of my awful history.
Thank you in advance to whoever it may be that reviews my appeal. I can only hope that you can see the effort put in, and appreciate that things are so incredibly different now.
Please confirm that you have read the unban appeal process and rules: Yes
