Ban appeal (and complaint about an admin) Options

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Hello everyone,

Let me start this by saying I have no ill will towards anyone, but I feel like I should get this out in the open to prevent the death of one of my favorite servers.

It's about a certain admin I've been observing for a couple of weeks now, and his name is Airplane.
This one time I kicked him ONCE because I knew the game was going to be over in a couple of seconds, and he kicked me from that game. When I returned to the game he threatened to ban me for a couple of days if I ever kicked a team mate again. At that point I immediately knew he enjoys asserting his powers over other players, and my suspicions were confirmed last night.

You see, I was using the catapult and another player from my team kept throwing javelins at me. Some other player I didn't know started a votekick against him, so I'm sure it wasn't only me he was harassing. Sadly the votekick failed so I started a vote myself, but it failed as well. So being desperate I asked if any admins could take action instead, but my plead was not heard, so I went back to the catapult. Of course not even a minute later the same player threw a javelin at me AGAIN, so I decided to defend myself. I kicked him into the water and I was immediately banned while the instigator was probably left alone. Was I just banned from that single game? No. Was I banned for one day? No. I am still banned the next day even though I was only protecting myself. And what was his reason? ''We don't deal with trolls like that.'' Really? I'm not allowed to defend myself even though I waited patiently for an Admin to take action? I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he waited for me to defend myself so he could ban me.

So why do I write this wall of text? Because I fear the server will die if players keep getting banned for several days (or permanently) for simple misdemeanors.
Chivalry already doesn't have a huge player base these days, so it might not just be the server he's destroying single-handedly, but the entire game.

Thanks in advance.

[The Malefic Trou...]

Hello there!
Please, first read the rules:RULES

The only reason to kick a teammate is if they are blocking an exit.

Free for all is only permitted when a round has already ended. As such, Airplane had every right and authority to kick you from the server for attacking him (yes, that does include kicking) before that.

Also:

TKing someone that TK'd you is not acceptable. If you think someone has done it intentionally then either a kick vote or report it to an admin (otherwise people just spout the usual excuse of 'but he started it first and I was just defending myself')

Once again, such situations like the one you described occur all the time and we encourage players to report it - please note that there are 64 players on the server, and just because Airplane didn't react right away doesn't mean he was being lazy, we often are already spectating or observing another player, or going through the player list looking for high pings or AFK players. Or frankly, just missed your message. We're human after all.
What you could have done is either take a screenshot or record a video and post it here as many players have done in the past. That'd be the best option, really.

I hope you can see now and understand that Airplane did nothing wrong, it's all in the rules. Therefore, we can't talk about abuse here.