Autoban Appeal Options

[Halkrath]

Date: A few days ago.
Time: Unsure.
Admin: Autoban
Additional Info: N/A
Situation: Just wanted to say something along the lines of "N what?" and boom permaban w/o warning... I'm black too, so it's extra dumb in a sense.



If I were to make a suggestion, I'd say you should leave the autoban feature out of your server; there are only a handful of servers alive for euro players and being banned indefinitely without admin warning for something as simple as a word seems hurtful to the active community. I have been a part of racial and religious discrimination a lot, and never saw anyone get autobanned for it. Just my 2 cents. (Edit: Being called a filthy peasant by the forums itself could have offended me a lot more than the N word ever could. If your aim is to guard against sensitive words, consistency is key.)

[MonkeyFiend]

The autoban system will make a ban for racist language that lasts 7 days

However based on your post, I'm going to change this to 30 days.

Firstly, it's irrelevant of your own ethnicity. The autoban is obviously word based - without context.
You must also appreciate that "I'm black too" etc., is one of the most common excuses we see. I wouldn't even want to hazard a guess at how many people are simply lying, to justify their stance.
If you're after a warning then the server welcome message, the server rules spam and aside from that just fucking common sense and courtesy when visiting a server as a guest. I don't know.. if you walked up to a stranger in the street and called them a cunt, they punched you in the face, would you also complain that they hadn't issued a warning first? Take some fucking responsibility for your actions.

Perhaps if you find the term "filthy peasant" - a rank based on number of posts in the forum, offensive. You shouldn't be playing chivalry, since this game itself contains "filthy peasants". We're not trying to stop all insults and colourful language, we're just drawing the line at racist language, which by majority clanvote we believe crosses a line. As a guest on the server we don't really care what your opinion is on how you think the server should be run. Your justification for racist language, simply shows that you haven't even grasped the basics of how to behave in public.

The reason the server is one of a handful alive is because of the strict rules and admin presence. That's the thing too, there's always those attention seeking kiddies that merrily troll by trying to be as offensive as possible. Those that think racist language is being edgy and cool. Happily the autoban system also takes care of those players because they just don't seem to be able to help themselves.

Having written this I was toying between permanent or 30 days. I've opted for 30 days. It'll give you a chance to think about your actions or justifications.

....and finally: I wrote this to try and explain why you're in the wrong. It's not an invitation for debate or putting across your own straw-man justifications. I simply don't care. However if you do feel the urge to post back, the ban gets changed to permanent.