How many insults do you think occur in your average game of CRPG?
How many people do you see getting reprimanded or banned everyday for insulting?
Do you really expect people to respect a rule that only gets enforced when the admins simply feel like it? Even when such admins themselves have knowingly broken such rules?
Honestly, I really want to know.
But try applying that same mentality to real-life and ask yourself if you'd feel the same if people committing fraud, theft, etc.. were only punished at all whenever Judges felt like it.
Something tells me a free society wouldn't last very long with stipulations such as that.
... Frankly, I'm not entirely sure why I should be forced to apologize for talking trash while other players are allowed to get away with it even though they may be conducting it on a more minor scale.
... Am I supposed to be held to some higher standard than every other player; despite not being an administrator or holding any formal title other than player? Honestly.
In this quote as well as the other ones i pasted in there, it seems you believe that your being singled out in the enforcement of this rule. Do others talk shit to each-other? Yes although it is mostly shit talking amongst friends but it does happen. However the point here is that you take it to a whole nother level where real action needs to be taken to correct it. This rule is not like team killing, where if you do it once your punished for it with a ban. Its a more subjective rule and up to the admins discretion when to warn and punish. If you did it as much as a normal person does, which is not at all or only jokingly amongst your friends nothing would happen to you. But when you spend two years saying horrible things to people (everyone) youve crossed the point to where an admin does need to step in and punish you for it just to make it stop, because it has become that out of hand. And its hard to understand how you cannot differentiate between small amounts of shit talk between two friends and calling everyone of the server a bundle of sticks 37 times in less than an hour and doing it every day for two years and how the later might warrant a much more severe punishment than the former which may not require any at all. Honestly im surprised this didnt happen to you sooner, which brings me to my next point.
Your main point is that your being singled out because of your reputation and because others do not like you. I would argue that your reputation is what has enabled you to behave this way and get away with it for such a long time. If you were just some unknown asshole who was doing this you would have been banned a very long time ago. Because you are "spook island" and you have a name in this game and a "fan base" its going to take an admin alot more to ban you than it would be for some unknown player no one cared about. This is because if they do take action against you they know they are going to take alot of shit for it from the people who know and like you, and they have. If it was the unknown guy no one would come to his defense, no one would care, it would be easy. Its kind of the same reason Heuy has gotten away with so much, people know him and like him, and the admins, even though they shouldn't, do care about what the people in the community think of them. And doing something that is unpopular with certain people like banning some figure they really like is going hurt their reputation in the eyes of those people.
So you being you has only helped you not get banned for so long, it definitely has not hurt you. Not to mention behaving this way for such a long time has made people expect this kind of behavior out of you, wereas they would be appalled if someone more respectable just randomly did it one day, it would be a much bigger deal to them. You are not held to a higher standard, in terms of chat decency you are held to the lowest standards of anyone who has ever played this game. If just about anyone did what you do every day in a server, people would be all over them cursing them out telling them to shut up or demanding they be kicked or muted. You do it and everyone knows, thats spook, hes an asshole, its what he does (the admins fall victim to this mentality just as the players do). When the day comes that someone else does what you do for as long as you have done it and isnt banned for it after 2 years then you can say you are held to a higher standard, but that will never happen as i doubt anyone will ever be allowed to get away with as much as you have again.
Saying you did nto mean to offend anyone doesnt mean anything. All that matters is how the people in the server take it, and i doubt many of them like it. I dont play in seige anymore, but when i was starting out i did because seige is kind of like the D league of crpg and i was just learning to play. Anyways i was exposed to you, sometimes the stuff you said was funny, and at times it wore on me to the point where i really wished you weren't there, it gets old. Given my tolerance for this kind of talk which is much higher than the vast majority of palyers id have to imagine 80% of the palyers on there are not happy about it. I also being a casual seige player did not even know this forum existed, and didn't find out until months later, nor did i know i could complain about any of this. Not to mention most people who get banned technically are never reported by a player (few players go through the trouble of doing this even when intentionally tked multiple times as has happened to me), the admin notices the actions and takes matters into their own hands, and that is perfectly appropriate.
And comparing the rules of a server in a video game to real life laws isn't a realistic thing to do. This is not real life, this is a server owned by a group of people who do not like that kind of behavior, so they don't allow it. Again all that matters is what they think and what they want, one dev has already made his opinion known in this thread. If youd like you can buy your own server, then you can curse out anyone who comes in to play there. No doubt it will be full all the time.
And no one was expecting you to write a sincrere essay expressing your remorse for your actions, the only question there is now is will you stop doing this and behave appropriately. We did not need your in depth analysis of why the changing of American culture for the worse is reason to allow you to break the rules on a server owned by people who are not even American nor care about whatever it is your talking about. I need to stop wasting my time in these threads.
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