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[UponASeaOfStars]

BYOND Key: UponASeaOfStars
Total Ban Length: Permanent
Banning staff member's Key: (This is the staff member's BYOND key/Ckey who placed the ban)
Reason of Ban: 

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Consistently powergaming. You were tempbanned for this in the past, and you clearly haven#39t changed. You can appeal this on the forums when you think you have.

Reason for Appeal: 

Alberyk said to make an appeal, so here we go, round three! I'm entering a plea of no contest - that is to say I still maintain my innocence (in that I had no intent to powergame or abuse any bugs), but I get that I'm not going to be able to convince you I had no malicious intent, so there's no real point in trying. Plus, I mean, you probably don't like me much after the whole staff complaint thing, and I get that, I don't like me much either. So instead, I'd like to propose an alternative punishment: community service. (Yeah, you can do your laugh reacts now. Get 'em in while they're hot.) But hear me out here. There's no malicious intent, so there's no need for a permaban... but clearly the staff team still thinks some level of punishment is necessary. The current situation doesn't really benefit anyone, so how about we turn it into something that benefits everyone? Maximise the good? Here's what I suggest.

I'd like the ban to be set to 31 days (10 March 2023), and then reduced by one day for every bug I fix. This doesn't include 'could not reproduce' closed issue tickets, but it does include PRs stuck in review limbo. So if I fix eighteen bugs, that's a thirteen-day ban. If I fix three bugs, that's a twenty-eight day ban. If I fix thirty-one bugs, I've done my time and served my sentence. When I return, I'm given amnesty for my previous sins, but any further bans cannot ever be appealed. I feel like this is fitting, given the original ticket was all about the now-infamous Briefcase Backpack Bug (BBB, not to be confused with the Better Business Bureau). But hold on, what do you get out of it? How does the staff team benefit?

One, optics. In my previous staff complaint, I raised the point that staff tend to go for the most harsh penalties possible, instead of sitting down and engaging in meaningful dialogue with offenders. Going for community service instead of a life sentence is a pretty good way to prove me wrong there, isn't it? It'd help the Aurora staff reputation become more positive.

Two, bug fixes. I mean, come on, there's 631 issues on the tracker right now, and if I'm fixing 31 of them, that's 5% taken out right there and then, plus any CNRs. Objectively, Aurora as a community would benefit from having someone take a deep-dive into fixing bugs for a while, and I'm happy to be the one to do so if it means I get to enjoy the rest of the current event arc.

Three... well, this can go one of two ways. Either I come back and I'm the turbomegashitter that staff seems to think I am, in which case I'm instantly banned (and if this happens, I officially forfeit my right to appeal, and you can quote me on this) -- or I come back and I prove that my reputation is unfounded, and in your eyes, turn over a new leaf, which means there's a good player floating around who isn't causing problems.

The downside, of course, is that it means giving me another shot and hoping I don't do anything as heinous as putting things in briefcases or wearing sandals as a cadet or putting tricord, inaprov and butaz in the same beaker, ever again. And if I do, then so be it, take me out back and let me see the stars one last time, then put one between my eyes. But if not? Then hey, mission accomplished, right? Reformation.

Edited February 7, 2023 by UponASeaOfStars

[UponASeaOfStars]

Update: I actually managed to sit down and talk with one of the admins about all this, and it honestly makes things way easier??? Not going to namedrop, but you know who you are- thank you for being willing to talk without the whole smokescreen of formality. It helped, a lot.

So here's where I was going wrong with the whole complaint fiasco-- I was focusing on intent. Because I had no intent to do a bad, then that surely means I shouldn't be punished, right? Standard intentionalist ethics, right? Well, I fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia', but only slightly less well known is this: Aurora is about consequences, not intent. It doesn't matter what my intent was, because the end result is that the rules were broken.

So yeah, that one's on me. Even though I disagree with the procedural approach, I formally revoke my complaint, because it's kinda silly to have a complaint when I'm the one who goofed. And I say this with genuine sincerity: I'm sorry. For putting things in a briefcase inside a backpack without taking the briefcase out of the backpack, yes, but also for being too autistic (and I mean this literally, not as an insult, me being on the spectrum does not help things here) to realise it was never about intent anyway so why am I writing 4000 words on it. I had to have someone else sit down with me in an informal setting and point out 'hey, this is how it works here' in order for it to click.

I'm sorry. And I'm gonna be totally honest, I can't promise I'll never break the rules again, because (as evidenced) I'm someone who actively has to be told 'hey, don't do that' sometimes. But I can promise I'll never intentionally break the rules, and I hope that's good enough... and if it isn't, then having the ban be a week, or a month, or six years, doesn't matter, because I'm the kind of person to touch a supermatter to see what it does IRL.

I do maintain that this whole shenanigan could've been avoided with just five minutes of conversation instead of secret notes and formal warnings and a permaban, but hey, it's a learning experience for everyone, especially me. So yeah, I'm sorry, I won't put things in briefcases inside backpacks without taking the briefcase out of the backpack again, pls unban before the event so I can play my spacecat thanku no further questions your honor.

[Melariara]

Hello. As I am the one who banned you, I am the one who decides this.

No.

Thank you.

Locking and archiving.