t-o-m wrote:Righto.
I'll just start by saying that if it was any other admin in the backroom, other than KingAchilles, this thread and whole situation will not have happened.
KingAchilles and I have an open dislike for each other and he clearly dislikes me more than I dislike him. It seems that working in the backroom and not talking with anyone has eroded away his common decency and his basic social skills.
At 00:39:00AM today, I was sent this email notifying me of my ban:
Hello t-o-m,
Your account has been issued a Website Ban. You can no longer play games, rate players, use the forum or private messages. If you had any Premium Membership it has been cancelled without refund.
Term of ban: permanent
Issued by: king achilles
Comment:
You were just removed from every clan you were in and you immediately got back to join them again. Take this indefinite vacation due to your persistence. Open an eTicket if you want to discuss this further.
Regards,
The Conquer Club
As you can see, the labeled reason(s) are for:
On its own this information seems a little retarded. Let me give it some background:
When I was forum banned, I realised that I was still in my usergroups and that I had access to view/post in Spamalot, so I did. Then that stopped for some reason.
Fairly recently - about 2-4 months ago, I managed to get access to another clan; Imperial Britain. This clan is made up from all of the buddies who I play games with so I would obviously want to talk to them - so I posted a little until that also stopped.
/background
Recently, while waiting for my speed games to fill up, I applied to a large chunk of clans on ** out of impatience for my games to fill, etc. I thought nothing of it. Who would? A few days later, I applied for some more clans, just out of curiosity to see who would accept me. (Let's face it. Most clans on ** now are noob and inactive ones)
So, this is as far as
my knowledge goes as to my ban. Today, 23rd July, I logged onto ** and found no games in the My Games section and no access to live chat. After visiting other websites (inc. here) I saw that I had been banned - my first thought... lolwut??
I read the email above, read some forums, and send an e-ticket.
Their response to my ban and the reasons for it:
- I had applied to clans with the intention of getting around my ban
- I had disregarded my warning
- Therefore, I deserve a permanent ban from ** and my premium revoked
As we all know, when you break a non-existent rule to do with the forums and ignore one warning which you're unable to receive, you're fully entitled to a website ban - especially if you have no previous infringements.
My counter arguments:
- **, at least when I still had forums, made it clear that the forums, live chat, and the gaming side of things had NOTHING to do with each other, and never would. So why did I receive a website ban for a forum-side 'infringement'?
- I clearly received no warning.
Why I know KA is bias against me:
- Our history, see above ^
- He sent me a warning via PM. He MUST have known that getting around a FORUM ban might imply that I actually had a FORUM BAN. Is that so hard to connect? And therefore I cannot receive PMs, yet he sent me a warning via there anyway. You might think, oh, it's just a little misunderstanding on his part... well, I have sent many e-tickets in my tmie and he has fully acknowledged the fact that I do not have the ability to read PMs.
- No one goes from one warning to permanent ban. No one. Not even on the most corrupt site that exists.
- Look at the language used in the email:
Take this indefinite vacation due to your persistence.
This is a little niggle at me. He couldn't resist getting one last jab - no professional would do this. And we've already covered his lack of social skills.
I'm sorry. I really wouldn't normally kick up much of a fuss and if I actually did something wrong then I'd just f*ck off back under the bridge... but no. Conquer Club, you've overstepped the mark on this one. This time, you've got nowhere to hide. The evidence is laid out in front of you and I am willing to accept an apology and move on, but this is unacceptable.
Tom
