Banned, and for what?, just got banned after 3 houers of good fun. Options

[Godfather Nor]

Yep, i just got banned from your server, (punkbuster) after 3 houers of good fun.. no sm members on, it just said banned for racism!! errr??? i got the screen pic if wanted but i surely want this ban lifted as i am no racist, and i have not done anything wrong except killing sm members.

ive played allot on the server... for houers... check the stats...

im no kid who does shit like this for fun. im a grown man with kids so this is kinda wierd for me to do...

this ban, is not in its place... Godfather

[MonkeyFiend]

thanks for the reply - we do look at behavior of all players on the server, especially when we receive complaints and thankfully can pull back logs since mid-april.

Your friend metric who has also been on the servers a fair bit has made many a comment about the server being shit etc., use of certain weapons and a variety of insults, however all in line with our rules and has never made any racist comments (and if he did he would also have been banned)

Those logs are a section from the chat - not edited in any way. I could maybe understand if your comment was aimed at your friend if there was some conversation going on, however your comment was a one-off, made in global chat (and I note you were in the same squad at the time). Whether aimed at an understanding individual or not, the point is it was an offensive term used in global chat are more likely aimed at someone who had just killed you.

Additionally it wasn't an hour after you wrote it, it was nine minutes. Even so, we quite happily would ban people for breaking the rules when we check logs hours, even days later - people check over a cross section of logs periodically (every couple of days) or specific logs if there is a complaint and will quite happily issue warning, short or permanent bans based on that.

Regarding our rules, there has been dicussion on whether we should warn, kick or ban for racism. The clan voted as a whole for bans, we're a clan with a variety of racial backgrounds and frankly don't wish to have people on the server that think racist remarks are cool, funny or the very worrying individuals who really do believe certain ethnicities are inferior. As such we don't issue warnings for racist remarks.

[Edit: I note there is a poll now for members to uphold or cancel the ban, majority decision as usual]