Nekonyan123 Posted July 12, 2022 Posted July 12, 2022 (edited) BYOND Key: Zantix Total Ban Length: permanent Banning staff member's Key: mattatlas#0230 Reason of Ban: Your profile picture is not appropriate for this server and you did not reply to an admin ping, nor can you be reached on discord. Appeal on the forums when you have changed it. Reason for Appeal: I could debate that my propic was arguably not inappropriate for several reasons, but I lack the will to start such an argument, so I limited myself into censuring it, therefore editing it and changing. Other than that, I did not reply to an admin ping because my last message was literally "my internet died", that is why I was not reachable on discord. And before you ask, I have really little smartphone data. Thank you and I hope I can be unbanned. Edited July 12, 2022 by Nekonyan123
MattAtlas Posted July 12, 2022 Posted July 12, 2022 9 hours ago, Nekonyan123 said: I could debate that my propic was arguably not inappropriate for several reasons I believe you should actually explain to me why you think a Dirlewanger Brigade Schutzstaffel femboy profile picture (with rather obvious nazi markings, might I add) is an appropriate profile picture for the server.
Nekonyan123 Posted July 12, 2022 Author Posted July 12, 2022 37 minutes ago, MattAtlas said: I believe you should actually explain to me why you think a Dirlewanger Brigade Schutzstaffel femboy profile picture (with rather obvious nazi markings, might I add) is an appropriate profile picture for the server. Dirlewanger Brigade Schutzstaffel "femboy" is not real. Dirlewanger Brigade is intended, in its contextual use as my avatar on discord, as an historical military brigade, not an hate symbol or any kind of support to that hateful chapter of human history. That is a fanart from The New Order mod from Hearts of Iron 4, wich is a mod not promoting but condemning nazism (you can research more on the makers of said mod on your own, if you are interested). It is not a femboy, but an anime boy, wich is not inappropriate (no nudity present). The aforementioned nazi markings were just the pins wich were not cleary visible from the default discord view, and actually required you to use a bot to see the full image. The aforementioned nazi marking was not showing any kind of apology, promotion or glorification of nazism or any heinous ideology from my part. I did not know I would be removed following one simple and kind act of notifying my forced inability to reconnect to the round because of a network failure that did not depended on me, all for a profile picture about hundred of others. One expects the counterpart(s) to appreciate a show of good will, not being punished for that (because if I did not warn on discord you would never have noticed my avatar and maybe I would have been equally banned for being SSD during the round but maybe with a timelimit?). Other than that, I find it wrong to ban me just because I was not able to answer to any ping (I did not had the chance to see any), when you clearly got a message from me literally warning that my internet connection failed. I do not want to make any aleged guess, but I did not had the chance to simply censor or get a new avatar, instead, I was abruptly and one-sidedly removed both from the game and the server without a chance to acknowledge, respond or solve the perceived issue. I find this a dismissive way to deal with an active user, banning them even when they were unable to do a thing about the problem. The avatar was adjusted, and you can now look it up and ensure no further hate symbols are present. That being said I apologize, even if I had not the chance to react, and I again request the chance to return to the game. Thank you
MattAtlas Posted July 12, 2022 Posted July 12, 2022 This appeal is denied. First and foremost: do remember that we are under no obligation to strike you first. As per our Discord's rules, staff may ban at their descretion. Furthermore, it is not unreasonable for me to believe that, since you sent a message after your internet died, you have the capability to continue sending messages, through mobile data or whatever else. Secondly, I do not believe you understand the social gravity of using a profile picture that represents one of the worst Nazi brigades to exist. For your profile picture, and thus something you associate with or like, you chose to use an anime representation of one of the worst set of people in Human history, with all the crimes connected to them. I will not go into details about what exactly the Dirlewanger brigade is on this forum post, but alarm bells should have rang in your mind. Your profile picture is something people see and relate to you every time you speak. Your irony, or whatever other reason you had for choosing this image as your profile picture, is not something that reaches people that do not play the HoI4 mod you mentioned. And even then, you should have the basic social sense to keep these two spheres (what you associate with and "funny memes", even if I have no idea why you would find the Dirlewanger Brigade funny or relatable) separate. Given that you defended the usage of your profile picture and that you, in your original post, admitted that you "could debate that it's appropriate", I simply cannot trust you to 1) not associate with what you put in your profile picture and 2) make good judgements as expected of a normal community member. In addition, I would like you to know that using your profile picture in Germany, Austria or Brazil is a crime. Do not appeal this ban. It will never be lifted.
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