Disclaimer: I am posting this for him since he cannot access the forums.
He also wanted me to be sure @TheCyan saw this.
Name: Ninjaman
Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:80516124
Ban Reason: Targeted a member of the community in order to harass and create a toxic environment, in an attempt to gain evidence against him. / toxicity
Date of Ban: 8/5/2020
Length of Ban: Perma
Staff Members Involved: Forseen, Freck, Anderson
Reasons why we should accept your ban:
DISCLAIMERS-
First, I want to clarify that this entire appeal is to explain my OWN actions. This will not involve what happened in DU, this will not involve drama (nor meaning to try to create any) and I can’t speak for anything else that was said or done by any of the other banned individuals. This is to not also argue the bans and how it may or may not been handled it’s already been done and that the point of this entire thread. As I am also forum banned I apologize if I can’t answer any of the questions some of you may have. I’ll try to keep this as clear as I can with enough information to work with.
Background info-
Now, I had known cyan for quite sometime and worked closely with him during my time in DU HC. He was a absolutely great doc worker and at that time he was only a freshly promoted LTC. We had our agreements and or disagreements, but overall got along fine. There were a few incidents that did lead to me keeping a eye out for him. At this time me and owen were the ones running DU at this time. It kept us extremely busy most nights as we tried to work together to improve and help solve DU issues and concerns. Personally, I say me and owen made one hell of a team. Unfortunately, with our limited resources me and owen couldn’t do everything on our own. This was when we already had a eye on cyan as some of the doc work he was already doing, with some minor flaws that we hoped to shape. We then added cyan to the team and involved him in most of the doc work that needed to be done. I will 100% admit i didn’t make much of the docs I primarily helped keep the battalion in line, working on some discipline related items and talked within our own battalion and outside of it and help keep good relationships with the server between DU. I really worked towards the betterment of DU at the time. Owen and Cyan mainly handled the behind the scenes related stuff.
Main Story-
Alright onto the main topic. As some of you may know I had received a permaban back in early august under the reasons for targeting a member of the community. This target member was Cyan. Being the type of guy who didn’t do much doc work compared to cyan who did a ton of it we would always banter at each other. And poke fun at each other at our roles. (Considering when I first became DISL CMDR in DU one of my first acts was severely punishing the battalion for messing around in a Null training they setup for us. Cyan and Qster got it the worst since they were the highest ranks we missed a Order 66 event doing this) Possibly had a small part in our banter back and forth.
The quotes that were said was after one of our more heated banter moments. I will admit without context the quotes that are said sound bad. I won’t deny that, but what I will say was that this was said within a discord server that was a friend’s and not affiliated with synergy (even though synergy members were in there and I also understand Directors can use other discords if they involve something) What was said in there wasn’t to leave there as to not cause issues in the server. The screenshots that will be provided are also the same exact screenshots I had aslo provided as context within that server. Once the screenshots were provided the said quotes that I was banned for was more of a poor choice of words in two different instances. If you reading them I was not trying to target cyan or harass him. It was more of our usual banter (Please note I was already resigned from the server for 2 months) In the screenshots I was more explaining to him as to why i didn’t create a doc for DIS due to me and owen having other concerns. There were some jokes and a bit of mocking, but nothing bad in my opinion and he also mocks back too. It was just poking fun at each other something most people do in a discord when their bored. It was not trying to target him or make him angry in anyway to try and gain “evidence”. I just believe that what was said and done was taken out of context and attached to other matters that were unfortunately happening at the same time. I will not deny with the ban I felt I was banned with those quotes being taken out of context and was unable to explain myself. I was frustrated and felt wronged. I felt it could’ve been handled a bit better and gone a different way if they were given the correct context and more or less caught in the cross fire from what was said by the others that were banned. (I absolutely love you freck please don’t take this the wrong way) This is why I’m making this appeal
I will apologize for the poor choice of words, but I can’t apologize for something I said that I was punished for without the whole story being put out there. (Again please don’t take this the wrong way it’s just what I honestly feel)
Another note as I’m sure some of you may -1 this appeal for not feeling completely sorry for it
After my ban I was angry and frustrated, two weeks passed before things started to calm down I made a decision one night to make amends with cyan and private message him. I wanted to clear things up and apologize for what I said and explained to him WHY it was said and in that fashion. Again as a poor choice of words. I really wanted to bury the hatchet with him and clear the air because what I said was directed at him. I didn’t try to look for an apology, but I hope one day he would forgive what I had said.
Unfortunately, he didn’t and wouldn’t accept my apology and we talked a while and went our own ways I can at least say I tried to make amends on my own with him, but failed. Later down the road though we had made a discord community in which he actually joined. I was a bit weary, but we both seemed to wanted to leave behind what happened and got along fine.
Cyan if your reading this I want to publicly clarify. I’m sorry for what I said about you. It was not meant in anyway to target you or put you down and I sincerely hope you will forgive me.
(I will not post screenshots of our conversation unless cyan does it himself)
Thank you everyone for reading this. I hope this at least clears up some things that had happened! If I said thing that may seem like I’m trying to start something I sincerely don’t mean to. This is just what I’m feeling
Evidence to support your claims:
All These are Screenshots taken from the Synergy DU General Chat
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