As for Allers I never said the perma ban was just, he deserves a ban still (a fairly lengthy one, but not too long), but not necessarily a perma. With his track record, it doesn't help his case at all. If you give him a simple ban with a short length then you will never learn. People would abuse it over and over again. When it gets to the banned when you have been banned so many times, for some times being something more serious, or something as simple as double spawning, it doesn't matter. It gets to the point where it's just ridiculous.
Its pretty clear to any actual witnesses besides the esteemed Winstona Churchhill that Allers was not blatantly chinaman gold-farmer mode running in and dying. He played without much regard for his own virtual life, but was still more useful to his team than several players each map that were legitimately trying.
Is it against the rules to do that because he has been previously banned? I don't give two shits about how heinous his e-crimes were, unless he like got someone fired from their job or autoblocked a bunch or something. I'm not familiar with many of them, either. They were from a time where I was a blissfully unaware sperg-to-be that didn't visit the forums or do anything like that. Still, it doesn't matter.
Would I be allowed to wear cloth armour and wield a rondel dagger, running into the enemy and attempting to shank them round after round? I think that I would. I've received a 15 minute ban from Partyboy (well done btw on that Shik, 10/10) from saying "I am a gigantic bundle of sticks please rape my face" in all-chat for homophobia, and a 2-hour ban from Artyem for drunkenly murdering Sparvico at 3am one time after he told me to kill him. I think I may have received a ban from Granpappy for spamming I-chat with vaguely racist things on a skip the fun character, but he unbanned me right after when I apologized to him on steam, and we had a very nice conversation for over an hour afterwards.
Point is, I have a very short "rap sheet" and I feel I'd be immune to being banned for the
exact same behavior that Allers demonstrated, and that is wrong. Testi bro-coded damn near every round he played with naught but a wooden stick and a loving smile until flags came up, and I never saw anything happen to him (nor should it have, Testi=Besti etc).
The standards can be justifiably different for repeated offenses such as teamkilling, blatant continued harrassment, or exploiting, but not when an offense has not been technically committed, even if prior offenses have been committed.
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