I got Warned back in April on another night when all the mods were offline and a spamtroll was wreaking havoc in the Pit. I spammed one of his reported threads and was Warned. Since I never received an e-mail saying this, I was unawares when I spammed a reported thread tonight with the ironic message
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Soon after I find I'm unable to view the Pit! What's this? I check my email: Banned! LOL WUT?
So i hop over to FoTB and here's how it went down. You should check the dramatized version against this one for my idealized fantasy of how it should have gone down.
ME: Oh noes, you don't have permission to post! What's this?
I check my e-mails and apparently [REDACTED] banned me for having two
active warnings. I haven't received an e-mail informing me of a warning
since I was warned by [REDACTED, different person] on December 4, 2008.
Therefore, hear my plea:
Mod: #6. Warned by [REDACTED] (04/20/2009)
posting in a spam/reported thread: [REDACTED]
#7. Warned by [REDACTED] (05/06/2009)
posting in a spam/reported thread: [REDACTED]
#8. Banned by [REDACTED] (05/06/2009)
2 warnings=ban
Not sure why you didn't get the one on April 20 seeing as how you got the most recent ones.
4/20? Perhaps the servers were high?
[QUOTE REDACTED FOR SPACE]
Damn that's ironic
If I'd known I was on warning I wouldn't have been posting in such threads.
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Wait a minute, my first warning isn't kosher. Check the timestamps on that thread, I was one minute after the first reporting.
Quote: [REDACTED FOR SPACE]
Is it because that post didn't say *reported*? Even though it was blatantly obvious (well, I thought) that was my intention?
I think I remember that night. Didn't you say you were warning
everybody who posted in that troll's threads? I think that was the
first one I saw, actually, though if I'm lying the timestamps will tell
otherwise so feel free to check and correct. Thought I was okay because
I was in the time window and never received the e-mail.
I deserved the new warning, no bones about it, but is there any kind of
mercy since I thought I was currently clean, especially since my first
warning came in the two-minute window?
Actually you were warned for posting AGAIN in the first thread, long
after it was reported. Scroll down a bit more and you will see what I
mean.
So no, no mercy unfortunately. sorry.
Oh. Maaaaaaaan, there I was with my legal argument, and you show up with a cannon.
But still no lenience even though I had no notification of the first
warning? I really didn't, for serious, though I'm at an utter loss for
how to prove it. You could get around these scenarios in the future by
requesting a receipt for warning e-mails or something, send one a day
until you get that receipt.
It's just really frustrating to get banned because I didn't know I had a warning already.
It is unfortunate that you didn't get the email, but that doesn't mean we can just let it go. No system is 100% perfect.
It doesn't excuse the fact that the rules were broken. We don't let
other people go because they didn't get emails, so it wouldn't be fair
to them if I let you go. Sorry.
All right, I understand.
I shall serve my time quietly after this post (save profiles, of
course). Done with my rebuttal. But I've got a long-standing bone to
pick with the rules, and I by no means expect it to make a difference
in my sentence, and that isn't my intention anyway. I just want it out
there. Maybe you mods can have some kind of discussion about it, or
something.
I went on to argue that punishments should fit the crime, IE lesser offenses generate shorter bans than worse ones, then gracefully bowed out. Looks like a bunch of time just freed up for me to write, record, and do MS Paint entries.....
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