SpookBones - Metacomms

Ban reason: Metacomms with ABULLA

Length of ban: Ban Appeal

Events leading to the ban: Me and my friend ABULLA is just chatting (Voice chat) on discord on what we could do with the current round. We stumbled into the bar area, then we saw what we thought is a boxing ring, but in reality it’s a stage for performers. Me and ABULLA agreed on a boxing fight on the stage (NO IC AGREEMENT)(DISCORD AGREEMENT ONLY) and then we started throwing punches at each other. But then the folks at the bar tried to break the fight including the bartender. The bartender shot us with the double barrel shotgun with rubber shots to stop us both from fighting, the bartender successfully stopped us from fighting. After me and ABULLA left the bar. ABULLA got a message from an admin (I do not know the exact words) “Why were you hurting Alejandro Pershing?”, ABULLA replied (I do not know the exact words either) “he wanted to fight on the ring”, The admin then replied (I do not know the exact words) “Alejandro didn’t say anything according to the logs”, ABULLA replied “We agreed on fighting via discord” and then the same admin messaged me to see if I’m really chatting ABULLA on discord, I said yes. After like 5 or 8 minutes, me and ABULLA got banned from the server with the reason metacomms.

Reason the ban should be removed: We know metacomms is against the rules, but we did not know it is against the rule if we were just chatting on discord casually. We thought metacomms is only against the rule if we were giving each other information that we would not get in-character to gain advantage against other players. We are sorry. (sorry for grammar)

Metacommunication is zero-tolerance. As evidenced by your actions, it is easy for you to pass information between one another casually without anyone else in the game knowing about it, regardless of if this information is “casual” or not.

This appeal is accepted, but we will not tolerate metacomms in any capacity. Neither of you should be communicating with one another anywhere but in-game if you are both playing the game. If you get caught metacommunicating again it is likely to be a voucher ban.

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