Bedoo622's Ban Appeal

[Bedoo]

Your Character or Steam Name: Bedoo622| Enzo Ricci | STEAM_0:1:196756628

Your SteamID (Click to retrieve): STEAM_0:1:196756628

Your Discord ID#: bedoo2822

Reason for ban: Unapproved Crew Deal Discord....

Length of ban: 3 days

Reason for appeal (dispute/apology): Dispute/Apology

Why should you be unbanned? 
So I'm not really too sure what Crew Deal Discord I was apart of and participating in as a Don but my best guess is this has something to do with this Stand I saw yesterday walking around. Up by the Casino ATM I saw a guy with a stand up called the Eastern Stock Exchange, now I've been seeing and hearing about these stock exchanges popping up so I decided to look into it a bit further. On top of this guys stand was a sign with a brief description of what the Eastern Stock Exchange was and a discord link to their Exchange discord, while I had no intentions of actually risking my money by buying into it, I thought back of the JGN stock exchange and I thought it was the same kinda deal so I joined it to see what was up. Once joining the discord I was given some role, maybe called "Business Man" or something I'm not really sure tbh, but even with this role I could not see any text in any chat. Once seeing that I couldn't see anything in it, I simply forgot about it. I feel it's worth mentioning that me myself never typed or used this discord for any business/financial gain, nor did I spread the discord to others.
Looking back on it like yeah I should've looked and seen that there was no UA/Management in it and it was a not legit server and also remembered that Commerce businesses aren't allowed to create their own discord as they're supposed to make a commerce thread.

Maybe this is the reason maybe its not, but hopefully that explains my side of things and maybe can get this ban wiped from my record.

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Edited 1 hour ago by Bedoo

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Reminder for those replying.

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You may only comment on an appeal if you were DIRECTLY involved with the situation leading up to the ban OR if the appeal is for a permanent ban. Replies that are not to do with the situation will result in a forum warning and/or ban.

As for the bans, not only yours but the other involved, glad to clear it up since people seem to be spreading misinformation as to why they were banned and what exactly took place.

There seems to be some prevailing narrative that it was a 'friend server' or 'a stock exchange market' and that people were unfairly banned, or banned even though they never typed a message.



This was the entire server, a server very specifically created and dedicated to circumventing the gameplay loop and the very well established discord and metagame rules.
 

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• Only official factions are permitted to use a Discord server for IC purposes. This is limited to the one server and will be owned by Diverge Management

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Trade Discords, legal or illegal, are not allowed, herein referred to as Shop Discords, all deals must be done in-game. Violating this will result in the factions using it being removed from the server. Again, the purpose is that all of this is to be done in game.

A discord that is outside the permitted discords list which is being used to organize deals which should be done in-game does constitute a rulebreak even if the user had no messages in the discord they still are very clearly involved and intend to use it for purposes outside what is permitted. This was populated by players who have hundreds of hours in-game and definitely know better, so all things considered the bans are not exactly unreasonable or insane and if anything serve as a reminder that yes the rules matter and yes your decisions matter, if there's an active rulebreak occurring you should be reporting it instead of silently benefitting from your involvement. 

 

What is the takeaway here? Any and all discords that exist for the express purpose of diverge related activities, communication, trading, etc are not permitted only the official faction discords are approved, you risk being punished for being involved with metagame.

Can a friend discord get you banned? No, hanging out in a separate discord with your friends that is in no way shape or form related to Diverge will not get you banned. Of course if you use that friend discord to then metagame or trade for Diverge related purposes you do open yourself up to administrative action.