Your Character or Steam Name: Jalopy22222
Your SteamID (Click to retrieve): STEAM_0:0:511374435
Your Discord ID#: motherfucking
Reason for ban: ARDM
Length of ban: 3 days
Reason for appeal (dispute/apology): It wasn't ARDM.
Why should you be unbanned?: I was banned for ARDM on the basis that I tried to kill someone when they were an idle threat, this isn't true. Here's the context.
Me and two of my friends were driving around, we stopped next to the church so that I could sell some weed to the NPC. Coincidentally, a player who we've had repeated incidents with is standing right there and pulls a gun when we arrive. Thinking that we're about to get shot, I also pull a gun, and she runs around the corner, heading towards Little Italy. I follow, and as she's running down the hill, I fire off a few shots, which I'm not even sure hit her, and then she turns around and stares back at me. I realize that she wasn't gonna do shit, so I stop firing and got outta there.
The entire basis of her argument is that she was an idle threat and that it was ARDM because of that. The definition of RDM in the rules themselves is 'randomly killing players', and the rules regarding the difference between an active threat and an idle threat state: 'Users may kill for an active threat but they may not kill for an idle threat'. Neither was the act random, because in the sit that followed she admitted to the fact that we had prior history and that she pulled the gun because she 'didn't want to get mugged', nor was it even a kill, emphasized by the fact that I stopped firing because I realized it would constitute a rule break if I did kill her, and that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.
If it was ARDM, then I would've kept firing, because it would've been my intention to just randomly kill a player, but that clearly isn't the case. Her reasoning for pulling a gun is completely hypocritical; it's excusable for her to resort to pulling a weapon when she believes that I intend to mug her, based entirely upon the beef we've had, but when I see this and respond in kind due to the same reasoning, I get in trouble? It's ludicrous. I was given the space of a few seconds to reason whether or not she had the intention of starting a shootout, or just put her gun on safety, which I couldn't even identify because she immediately ran behind a corner.
Additional Information (images, videos, etc): I don't have a clip, but no doubt either her or the admin that handled the sit will reply soon enough with the clip she provided, which will prove my points.