Well I wouldn't say i'm trying to 'weasel my way out', I was at first simply trying to grasp the situation. Ban appeals are a thing for a reason, so of course i'm going to try and attempt to use them as intended.






I was trying to figure out why I actually got banned in the first place. Pretend I legitimately had no idea why I was banned, don't you think i'd try to figure out what exactly I did before I tried to come to a solid conclusion on how to resolve it?



Of course i'm upset by the ban. I feel I was being treated unfairly in this case, especially since I am truly trying to be a better person on this game and outside of it, some real proof of that is the fact I haven't scammed anyone. I haven't said anything about my problems because it's very personal, but i've been doing lots of self reflection about how and why I do things I do.



The person I was addressing didn't report me, which is essentially the same thing. Someone else, who I wasn't even talking to until he was physically causing me to lose the duel by entering and spectating did.




Now this is a very slippery slope for multiple reasons, one being it actually harms the atmosphere of the game when you can't even horse around with your friends without worrying about someone reporting you. Of course racism isn't ok, but trash talking in duels is honestly not only part of this game, but part of any other competitive game that exists. Now I'm not saying I was messing around with my friend, but I feel if the person I was talking to didn't report and there was no harm done to anyone, there shouldn't be an issue.


Now I just gave the ingame rules a read and came across
The last part is very important. Not once did the person who reported me ask me to stop, in fact as i've said many times he egged me on and was literally trying his best to set me off. I believe if someone is truly offended, they would at least ask me to stop, not continue their disruptive behavior, and as you said he's clearly just a troll and wasn't offended by anything I said. In fact nobody in the server said anything about my behavior except for the one person who was purposely trolling me.






The issue is this is the first time I can recall having issues with Whimper, and in the moment I was struggling to balance ignoring him and trying to win a duel that I was getting destroyed in. I didn't even think about reporting him, and I wouldn't have unless I knew he'd actually report me and make a small issue a huge problem.


And for fire I don't really have issues with him, it's just part of my mind set in dueling which I agree needs to change. I've just adapted the trash talk mind set from other users i've seen duel honestly.


No argument out of me, you're right there. It was just a high stress situation and I'm trying to balance multiple emotions at once. I am trying to learn, as I said previously I haven't even scammed anyone in forever. The only issue is i've been playing for 10 years and all of a sudden there's new rules like a private server isn't considered private unless there's a set password, and the only reason I found that out is because I got banned because of it. In the future I hope you guys will try to announce when there's new rule changes that can affect the game and how people communicate.





To be honest I don't even know who Whimper is, that was the first instance I can recall meeting him.





It'd be totally different if Fire himself had reported me instead of Whimper. I can't understand how you feel it's the same exact scenario when it's not. There's a huge difference between me talking to Fire and him reporting me for being personally insulted, and someone who is clearly trolling me reporting me. That's also where context comes to play, because it's clear as day his only intention was to get me banned, there's absolutely no way he was upset and I'm sure you know that.






Whimper was definitely one of the main reasons I lost my cool. He wasn't just a bystander, he was entering the duel and spectating and caused me to space, constantly saying things to bother me, and Fire refused to op me or ban him. Now what can I really do in that situation? Report for making me space? Report him for calling me bad? I don't think that would hold any ground as it's difficult to even prove that he did anything at all. And I can't spectate to grab a staff member because that'd count as a loss due to the poor dueling rules that are currently in place. And the chat was taken out of context because I wasn't just joining a random server to harass Fire, he asked me to duel and we both talk trash to each other, we don't report each other because there's simply nothing wrong with it.





Sure I got worked up, but what I said wasn't personally insulting to anyone, and I did somewhat filter what I said. But I do understand how what I did was considered toxic and I shouldn't have said anything. I just want you to understand that to me and other duelers that play the game, it's typical trash talk that we all do, and that's why duelers never really report each other. Ironically enough if I said the things you said to me in the Ban Appeals that'd be about the same as what I'd said to Fire.




I do believe I was being shut down anytime I made an appeal which is why I put less and less effort because i'd just get called names, but hopefully now that we have more of an understanding we can actually have a conversation like we are doing now.




Sure, open the appeal on Mouth. And I feel the thread did serve the purpose I intended which was to have a more civil discussion, gather other people's ideas, and understand what I should change about myself, which we are doing.

I did every point one by one so I don't know if I messed anything up, but try to read my points with an open mind because i'm shot.







As for your first point Chirs was insulting me in my ban appeals so I wouldn't say he handled it maturely until now, albeit I definitely didn't handle it well either, in fact I was way worse, but only after I attempted to gather an understanding on why I was banned in the first place and not being given a proper answer.




I agree, it's a step in the right direction when staff, me, or anyone are able to understand their own mistakes, it gives me hope the game will have a better future.



I would like to know what points you don't agree on, and it definitely wasn't completely unfair moderation but I don't think it was something worth being banned for.