Ban/Restriction Announcements

[Errantparabola]

kuribo has been banned from Discussion forums for 1 week for making personal attacks against other users.

[implosion]

Korina has been banned from joining any new games for one week due to referencing ongoing games. They do not need to be replaced in any of their current games.

[Papa Zito]

Elbirn has been banned for 5 minutes for spamming

[Micc]

Prof Fridays has been knocked down to zero modding experience after failing to run Micro 822: THE LAB 4 to completion. He will also be required to have a backup mod for future games.

[Errantparabola]

CooLDoG has been banned for two weeks from discussion forums for an expression of unacceptable viewpoints in this thread. Once again, note that joking is not an excuse for blatant breaches of the site rules.

[Kison]

Shortaru AKA House has been banned indefinitely for evading his prior ban.

[zoraster]

mcqueen has been permanently banned across the site for abusing the edit feature to attack other users in a multitude of threads, as well as breaking the rules against ongoing games/outside influences, after previous bans from both areas of the site.

mcqueen has been unbanned following appeal.

[PenguinPower]

RadiantCowbells is banned from joining new games for (expired on 2018-12-28 09:38:00) due to abusive comments towards another user.

[Kison]

sheepsaysmeep's ban has been lifted.

[PenguinPower]

Varsoon is banned from joining new games for (expired on 2018-12-27 09:11:00) due to abusive comments towards another user.

[Papa Zito]

Panzerjager has been banned for two weeks from discussion forums for insulting and harrassing another user.

This ban expires in (expired on 2019-01-18 23:20:00).

[zoraster]

T S O has been banned indefinitely for continuing to equate being transgender with mental illness, despite having been banned for the exact conduct before.

[zoraster]

Nero / tosser has been unbanned after appeal and review.

[Untrod Tripod]

Varsoon has been banned from all Mafia games for 150 days, 13 hours, 53 minutes for posting his role PM in a game. He will have to be replaced in all games he is currently in.

[zoraster]

Varsoon has been banned from all Mafia games for 150 days, 13 hours, 53 minutes for posting his role PM in a game. He will have to be replaced in all games he is currently in.

After review, this ban has been reduced to 90 days. The ban clock is now: 60 days, 13 hours, 53 minutes

[PenguinPower]

insomnia, and all related alts (scum reading, I scum read, Flapjack, hammy), have been banned from the Newbie Queue for one month (7 days, 0 hours, 46 minutes for circumventing Newbie Queue rules. He may continue to play in all current games with the exception of his alt, hammy.

[Untrod Tripod]

momo has been banned from mafia games for 76 days, 13 hours, 53 minutes for directing another player to make specific posts in other, ongoing mafia games for the purpose of influencing a game he was currently playing. He will need to be replaced in all games he is currently playing.

insomnia has been banned from mafia games for 76 days, 13 hours, 53 minutes for making specific posts in other, ongoing mafia games for the purpose of influencing a game he was currently playing. He will need to be replaced in all games he is currently playing.

[zoraster]

Just a note, the above is under review. The two players indicated do not need to be replaced as of yet.

[Untrod Tripod]

The above bans have been amended.

momo has been banned from mafia games for 46 days, 13 hours, 53 minutes for directing another player to make specific posts in other, ongoing mafia games for the purpose of influencing a game he was currently playing. He will need to be replaced in all games he is currently playing.

insomnia has been banned from joining new mafia games for 15 days, 13 hours, 53 minutes for making specific posts in other, ongoing mafia games for the purpose of influencing a game he was currently playing. He will not need to be replaced in any games he is currently playing.

For clarification of what happened: in the Mafia PT for Gameshow Mafia, momo directed insomnia to falsely claim that he was going through a family emergency in all games he is currently playing. insomnia did this. This is in clear violation of site rules in that it brings out-of-game influences to other games. momo and insomnia purposefully affected other games to gain an advantage in Gameshow mafia.

To be clear: it is expressly against site rules to conspire to post something in a game to gain an advantage in another game. Do not do this. You will get banned.

momo was abusing his position as an experienced player to convince a new player to break site rules. insomnia received a ban, albeit a less severe one, because ignorance of the rules does not excuse rulebreaking. If it is reasonable that a new player did not understand the rules, the mod team will punish them in a less severe way. Our goal is not retribution, but behavior change.

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As an aside, on our forum it is embedded in the site culture that we trust other player's claims of IRL issues. The fact of momo's rulebreaking is made more severe due to him knowingly exploiting this gentleman's agreement. We do not accept players on this site abusing the basic decency of other players and when appropriate it will always be a contributing factor in ban decisions.