Ban/note type (Server Ban/Discord Ban/Forum Ban/Note): Discord Ban
Ban/note duration: Permanent
Ban/note reason: Blowing up at people; Lukas says he'll get me the actual text later as he's on Mobile and you can't access your ban text from Discord as the banned user
Time ban was placed: I forget lol like 4 months ago? time dilation is real feels like 2 years
Server you were playing on when banned: Discord
Round ID in which ban was placed: Discord
Why are you making this appeal? (Put an x in the boxes):
() - The ban/note is factually incorrect
() - The ban/note is not against the rules
() - The ban/note needs modification
() - The ban was unjustifiably harsh
(X) - I was permabanned and I want another chance
Why should this appeal be accepted?:
Hello,
I took the last 4 months to really focus on my job and personal growth. I've basically done nothing but configure Cisco and Microtik routers for the last 4 months, minus a brief two-week vacation in December.
Since being banned, I had a realization. Instead of being stuck continually reading the stupidest posts on the planet, thereby driving up my blood pressure and pissing me off, causing me to blow up at them, I can just do what I've always done on Github for this exact problem: block people.
I started doing this years ago on GitHub because I recognized that arguing with these people was fucking stupid and did nothing positive for me, so I blocked them to deny them posting on my PRs period.
I realized during my 4 month vacation from the /tg/ discord that I should just take this mentality to Discord and start blocking the shit out of people who post the stupidest shit on the planet.
I've been taking this mindset to discord, and I've successfully expanded my block list to up to 53 people, with initial projections hoping for 300% growth on this over the next quarter as I curate my discord environments to simply never read the posts of assholes ever again.
I've also been working on the torment nexus, taking in player feedback and making adjustments. I've now deployed what appears to be a very popular addition based on player feedback and Discord previewing; Baton Skins.
Here's a video of Baton Skins in action.
I'd like to collect feedback from the /tg/ community again, as our forums being down for so long and the servers being down has made collecting in-game feedback harder than ever.
Finally, it's just plain hard to develop for /tg/ without being in the discord. Truth be told, I was supposed to file this appeal in December, but I kept slacking off on it as I didn't wanna hassle the new headmin term about it, but resuming work on the Torment Nexus has shown that it is really, really annoying for everyone you're working with to work out of the /tg/ discord, and the shared Coderbus server gets really mad if you're discussing /tg/ all day in it for some reason even though we literally invented #coderbus back on Rizon. Out of respect for working with my colleagues on big feature PRs, I need to re-request access so that communications for my work can be in the relevant channels instead of spread across the Manuel, Bubber, TGMC, and Coderbus discords.
Thank you for considering this appeal; it's been a good four months for my mental health and sanity, and I think that this ban was the right move in retrospect. I'm mad about it, but instead of yelling and complaining and immediately appealing, I chose to roll with it and give it a try, and I think it worked out.
EDIT: Updated the block list photos to censor the names after someone pointed out I should do that, sorry for the confusion
