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Your appeal boils down to the following points: 1. I stopped when asked. 2. It's not harassment because I stopped when asked. 3. It's not harassment because freedom of speech lets me accuse him of being a pedophile for no reason There's no acknowledgment of wrong doing, no acknowledgment that accusing people of shit like that is not chill, etc etc. Point 1 and 2 are contested by multiple staff members who say you continued despite being told to stop, you argued with JMZ and continued after the fact despite claiming you instantly listened as well as arguing in the second sit (refusing to comprehend your actions, a consistent theme) You don't seem to grasp the severity of making baseless accusation, yes as a one time joke these comments are whatever, but to continuously, after being told to stop, try to besmirch someone simply because you don't like them or you think they might not like you is irresponsible as hell. Anyone can claim anything but without actual proof you're just hurling baseless libel, which obviously isn't "Freedom of Speech". This isn't the first time you've gone out of your way to harass people you have issues with, I have seen the way you behave in personal messages with people, your overall attitude isn't very much different than a spoiled rich child. I've seen you crash out about when being made to leave factions or for getting pk'ed. You have on multiple occasions professed your 'hatred' of persons in the community and claimed you could easily go find them, maybe to harm them, etc. Harassing or other factions on alternate characters, you have already been reported for this poor behaviour and I wanted to see if this was a one time crash out or indicative of a repeated pattern of schizophrenia. Ultimately this proves it, I liken your behaviour to that of a child. It's a video game server, you get too invested, too emotional, you ascribe issues in roleplay to that individual's character as a person and bring the beef OOC constantly. It's embarrassing. I think the permanent ban here is appropriate, if this harassment of Riggs was the only issue with you I honestly would not mind reducing the ban, but based on your inability to take responsibility, the other past threats and harassments, concentrated efforts to damage factions on alt chars and the very suspicious arrests you were making on your PD char I think Boomroasted's decision to extend this to a permanent ban is more than justified. I don't know how old you are or why you behave the way you do but I think you need a serious period of self reflection, not only to realize what you did was wrong and why but to actually fundamentally change who you are as a person, because as it stands it does not seem enjoyable to be around you. Consider this an intervention. You may re-appeal this ban in a few months. Incase you don't understand why I am denying this appeal ATM, read here: I think your have a problem with your anger and emotions, I think you lash out verbally when things do not go your way, in RP, related to staff, in DMs, regarding money. I think it's immature and a negative trait and to allow you to continue to behave this way is damaging for the people you interact with and your own well being.

First joined 20th March, 2023 you accumulated 20 bans in a ~a year Banned on 05/05/2024 -> 343 days banned Excluding this ban you have been banned 19 other times, totalling 101 days banned. Compared to your playtime of 14 days, this means you've spent 721% of your time here banned. This is unfortunately inexcusable, you got many more chances than most and decided to throw it away each time. You can either open a Support request in discord or wait until 2026

It's something dark RP servers do to feign 'immersion' or 'realism' imo. no point in pretending an NPC isn't an NPC. This could be done but the pricing for things impact wise would be pretty minimal, considering that the advantages of having a 'better' racket is access to more money and more valuable product for your faction, but if all drugs have prices that swing too wildly it affects that intentional adv/disadv balance and then there's no reason to want a better racket, you just hold product till your drug swings up to the maximum possible price. Also rotating location doesn't do much, there's only so many pre-set locations it can rotate to and people would eventually memorize all pre-set locations and checking them to see where your desired buyer is at is more hassle and inconvenience than it is fun or interesting. Jut complicates people's lives and confuses new players. tl;dr The entire selling process becomes a gamified hassle and waste of time.

This is your only ban, I will give you the benefit of leniency here. Please read the mugging and Robbery rules so these things are clear to you.

Super epic suggestion things *SHOULD* be like this What do you mean how? It should just happen, magically.

Your ban appeal has been reviewed and denied. We have determined this ban to be reasonable and/or justified. Ensure you have read our Server Rules.

Ban expired.

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I would have to go buy a new calendar

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Chicago; Latency. It doesn't really mean much compared to other video games. Ping (location) isn't a factor that affects performance generally. ^ what anzati said

The observations you make do not reflect reality, there is a limited pool of people joining the police force, the people that do are often not serious/quality, nor is the NYPD the largest faction in the server. There are countless times (especially during conflicts) where the server is 128/128 players online and only 2 police officers are on (Who are then meant to represent a vast police force.) The nature of roleplaying as a police officer is met with total opposition by any non police role-player because this is a Mafia RP server and the other people are criminals, not law abiding citizens. Even a simple traffic stop turns into an ordeal because 10+ uninvolved persons want to surround the stop to scream and yell and argue. The FBI/DEA have existed as factions before and do not work. The 'SWAT" equivalent is the ESU Squad who are called up to serve warrants. and yes, if they were vulnerable for simply playing the game and doing their job. 1. No one would be able to do anything as a cop 2. No one would then want to BE a cop 3. Yes, people would unfairly target them to PK them. It doesn't work. This is the intended game function. Pendred's direct quote from the last thread:

He's the wrong race then

The staff member who issued the powergame note has requested it to be removed as it was done in error. I will obviously give you benefit here since this is your first ban.

To put it bluntly, after you kept claiming their was bias in this situation, I had a congregation of 5 different people look into it, including myself. We determined that this in-fact is baiting; which is against the server rules. In essence attempting to initiate a conflict in order to garner an escalation / reaction just for the excuse to then kill them, disguising the interaction as valid RP/within rules whereas the spirit of the rule and the intention is violated purposefully, this is usually done in a targeted matter against players or groups you do not like. It's no secret that there have been shifts in server dynamics recently a lot of people feel as if tensions are heightened, however, no escalation or conflict is currently active and as such there are no special permissions that grant people the ability to perform targeted harassment of properties or businesses, nor are things like shootouts cleared. This was a clear initiation of a bait as the individual who went to the opposing property went there without any real reason. They solely arrived there to cause problems and when rightfully asked to leave refused to do so in order to force escalation to fear RP / violence in which pre-placed members providing over watch on an adjacent rooftop, who would have had no other reason to be there, and who would not have known it was someone with their f3/someone was being attacked had they not been watching and been aware of what was transpiring, then opened fire seconds later causing a mass shootout and escalation of what could have simply been a fist fight or property ejection. "But it was rp i went there to cause problems it was valid rp" As stated No active conflict or special status that warrants you extra permission to cause problems / target unnecessarily. You went into their property with armed back up knowing full well the possible outcome if they rightfully removed you from their property by force. The baiting is pretty clear cut in this context. As for the claims of bias, pretty instantly when punishments were handed down claims of bias were made, claims that the ban was made longer due to bias, claims the ban reason was false and only done as a result of bias and claims that this appeal process would be tainted by bias. Ultimately, it's possible for staff members to make errors, they are at the end of the day volunteers on a server and do their best to get it right from sit to sit, which is why I am reviewing this along with other uninvolved parties. So for the ban. I find there is a rule-break and there is wrong doing, this was found by the banning moderator (Zeus) who is not part of the quote 'biased opposition' and he states as such on this appeal. As for the staff members who gave input, a lot of this is a he said she said and if you believe their is implicit bias or wrong doing you can file a staff report or have things like appeals reviewed by other staff, I see the logic and reasoning behind extending your ban, you have a massive ban record and honestly a permanent ban makes sense, it's your 6th ban this year and we are only 3 months in. It's ridiculous. I will be granting you some form of amnesty, on the condition you do the following: Read our rules -> https://divergenet.works/forum/8-rules/ Take a short rule quiz -> https://forms.gle/vPMoSA71uoD7k7d9A

I had a congregation of 5 different people look into it, including myself. We determined that this in-fact is baiting; which is against the server rules. In essence attempting to initiate a conflict in order to garner an escalation / reaction just for the excuse to then kill them, disguising the interaction as valid RP/within rules whereas the spirit of the rule and the intention is violated purposefully, this is usually done in a targeted matter against players or groups you do not like. It's no secret that there have been shifts in server dynamics recently a lot of people feel as if tensions are heightened, however, no escalation or conflict is currently active and as such there are no special permissions that grant people the ability to perform targeted harassment of properties or businesses, nor are things like shootouts cleared. This was a clear initiation of a bait as the individual who went to the opposing property went there without any real reason. They solely arrived there to cause problems and when rightfully asked to leave refused to do so in order to force escalation to fear RP / violence in which pre-placed members providing over watch on an adjacent rooftop, who would have had no other reason to be there, and who would not have known it was someone with their f3/someone was being attacked had they not been watching and been aware of what was transpiring, then opened fire seconds later causing a mass shootout and escalation of what could have simply been a fist fight or property ejection. "But it was rp i went there to cause problems it was valid rp" As stated No active conflict or special status that warrants you extra permission to cause problems / target unnecessarily. You went into their property with armed back up knowing full well the possible outcome if they rightfully removed you from their property by force. The baiting is pretty clear cut in this context. As for the claims of bias, pretty instantly when punishments were handed down claims of bias were made, claims that the ban was made longer due to bias, claims the ban reason was false and only done as a result of bias and claims that this appeal process would be tainted by bias. Ultimately, it's possible for staff members to make errors, they are at the end of the day volunteers on a server and do their best to get it right from sit to sit, which is why I am reviewing this along with other uninvolved parties. So for the ban. I find there is a rule-break and there is wrong doing. This is your 5th ban, and I will be giving you some leeway, i think the ban for 7 days is a bit much and will be reducing it to 2 days, but I am warning you now that you need to abide by the rules better, i mean staff can't be 'biased' in your bans if you're a rule abiding player right? Surely that is logically sound.

Your ban appeal has been reviewed and accepted. The ban will be lifted from your account shortly. If it was deemed an invalid ban, it will also be removed from your record.