Username: sradadog
Ban reason: speciesm, preferential treatment to Lizard players "He's a lizard, he's got more right that say, this guy here." "run"
Length of ban: Indefinite
Ban Issue:
I did what I was banned for, but the ban is unreasonably harsh
Vote Opt-Out: false
Events leading to the ban
Earlier in the round, pun-pun had been walked into security and deputized by a reptilian security officer, being played by myself. We did some minor roleplay, showing pun-pun the newly deputized cadet how to manage as a security officer lightheartedly between the LRP chaos. Later into said shift, pun-pun and a medic are directing another individual for a search for one reason or another.
Here, I am stopped and asked by the medic to assist in the search. The case is presented, between oohs-and-ahhhs from pun pun, that this guy admitted to being a thief. I noticed his name was something along the lines of, Steals-The-Stuff.
I didn’t take it seriously enough to want to search the guy over his name, so I wanted to engage in some beat-cop roleplay. I instructed pun-pun that lizardfolk have “more rights,” than the medic. Implicating him because of his lack of tail. The medic was indeed a human. Pun-pun turned on his baton, and I told him to run. He did so, and neither of us pursued. Someone shouted racism bad, at me. And I responded with “Racism good” while running else where to attend to what-ever was happening at said moment.
The round progressed as normal for Vulture and ended.
Through admin communication it was depicted similarly, although with confusion on my end.
Soon a conclusion had been reached that what I had said, and done was infact speciesm.
I agreed, and was summarily banned.
Reason the ban should be removed
I’m a particularly avid player on wizden servers. I don’t branch off anywhere else, and I really enjoy my time spent on wizden.
I understand, and by no means disagree with the rules set inplace in regards to speciesm. But I believe my sentence is particularly harsh for what happened. And at the very least, would like to see it reduced from indefinite status so that I may one day play again.
In interest of my own defense, I had simply forgotten about speciesm as a thing to be mindful of. It’s not a concept I’m particularly familiar with on the day to day basis; and in how-ever many days I’ve played on wizden servers I’ve only ever read the rules twice. It just didn’t click, I was having fun trying to roleplay and thought it would be an ICly likely trait for a future space-cop to exhibit.
I resent the idea that it’s implied that I would treat a player adversely because of their chosen character species.
I apologize for my loose grasp of the rules preceding this moment, but I do believe the ban-length is far to harsh. And I sincerely hope this has helped provide some transparency into my intention.
Thank you.
