Ban reason: “Selfantag and round-removal. Beat to death and then kitchenspiked a man as a non-antagonist”
Length of ban: 7,200 minutes. Expire Tuesday 3/12/24 at 1:24 AM UTC
Events leading to the ban: Tom foolery with banana peels at botany led to an engineer dropping his baseball bat and us taking it. He jumped over the counter demanding it back and we told him to get lost after he started hitting us as well as threatening to make botany spaced. Spoke with fellow botanist that if he comes back to start trouble we jump him. He comes back with another bat, then a fight breaks out and we end up killing him. In the heat of the moment I decided to kitchen spike him. Which in hindsight is not my brightest moment. I was bwoinked shortly thereafter and removed from server.
Reason the ban should be removed : My issue is not with the ban itself. I agree with the ban. I broke the rules and got caught up in the moment for the joke. My issue is with the length of the ban. A while back I started Cargonia and was spoken to about this and given a 12 hour ban. This was a clear message and I have stopped any activities relating to this and discouraged other players that mention Cargonia in LOOC. I argue that this is a large discrepancy on terms of rule breaking and admin punishment. This feels like the length of my ban is subjective to how the admin feels at the given moment. Rather than an objective length based on actions. Again, I feel the admin was correct here for the ban. I was in the wrong for my actions. But I argue that the ban for five days is excessive.
Our banning policy stacks the more rules you break, bans received. I can see you had previously been warned/ had notes of self antag behaviour twice prior and had the previous ban for the cargonia which increases the time.
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