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[Logic]

Hi there. During a game yesterday, I was running out of spawn along with a few team mates and I stopped for a split second to adjust my volume. Consequently, a team mate behind decided to kick me. Now, I admit I intentionally team attacked the person who kicked me out of the way, ONCE (which he blocked thus losing minimal health) and did not persist in attacking him any further, proceeding to the objective. About 5 seconds later I receive a message informing me that I have a week ban for team killing handed out to me from Zeripper.

Now as I say, I did intentionally hit this team mate and I admit my fault, however a week ban seems a little heavy handed for hitting someone once? So I took to your rules and read over them. It says that bans are handed out for intentionally team killing (depending on severity) and I feel the length of my ban doesn't reflect the severity of the broken rule, and so here are my reasons for asking for the ban to be lifted/reduced in length:

I didn't kill them, I team attacked in retaliation (they were in fact in breach of the rules themselves, unfortunately I didn't catch their name because I didn't think it would escalate so quickly to a ban)

It was one swing, not a prolonged attack, I wasn't out to intentionally team kill them and disrupt the game

This is not an ongoing thing, I always attempt to play the game properly and never intentionally TK, I'm also the first to apologise if I accidentally TK. I'm sure my track record is clean, I have been away from the game for a long time.

I received no warning from admin and have never been warned by an admin on any separate occasions before. No prior kick, simply slapped with a full week ban for something not so severe.

Thanks and I hope this can be resolved! (And sorry for the bland formatting, using phone)

[Logic]

Sorry, posted that before I saw your rather in-depth reply Zeripper.

I'm actually a little taken back by how in depth your response was and I wanna apologise for my behaviour. RE handing out bans as a means of cooling tempers is actually a decent idea; might help to weed out the more honest players who made a slip up and the outright trolls. I didn't take into consideration the number of trolls you probably have to deal with at all.

Thanks for such a professional response, honestly I better understand what you guys are up against in such a high traffic server, I'm sorry. I do promise not to be disruptive, I understand that you guys just wanna play the game and have fun too, without all the bullshit from trolls.

My profile: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998091138/

Name when incident took place: Logic

Thanks again