Jakugen
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Name When Banned: Jakugen
Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:33609414
Game: Team Fortress 2
Server: DARKLY | Toronto TF2 Trade/Idle #1 | darklytrade.com
Ban Reason: Racism
State your case: Earlier this evening I was banned from my favorite and most frequently visited trade server for a week on the grounds of supposed "racism," or at least that is how it reads on the ban list. The reality is that I was banned by an admin that found my questioning the value proposition of his trade, which he had been spamming the server with over the audio chat, inconvenient for business. I had no microphone to use at the time so the chat logs at least should attest to the truth of my account of these events as all my communications occurred through chat. Specifically, he had been offering to buy steam trading cards each at the price of one scrap a piece at a quite frequent rate over the microphone. I commented that this was not a good value proposition for the person selling the cards in an objective value sense. He responded with, and I am paraphrasing, 'some people are unable to use the market to sell, so they should be happy to get anything at all.' I was agitated at such a remark's implications, namely that some players do not deserve value for their goods, and I believe whomever reads this might be too as the admin's actions here mirror the prohibited activities of scamming and sharking (guidelines for which are outlined in rules T1 and T2 respectively). I suspected at the time, and am now justified in light of his actions, that this admin had been abusing his position to create an echo chamber wherein those that would comment upon the ethics of his trade proposals might be silenced or banned as I was, all in the interest of allowing those ignorant enough to the value of their items, or in the weakened bargaining position he was preying upon, to be taken advantage of, all to his own advantage. Feeling as I did, i compared his statement that some people do not deserve the same value that others get to the treatment of wealthy Jewish people under the Nazi yolk being made to pay inordinate amounts for the same standards of living as those who were not Jewish. This is obviously hyperbole, but in any case is not a statement endorsing or expressing racism of any kind. Shortly thereafter I was banned by the admin in this account, that i for the record interacted so briefly with that I don't recall his name. That this should be grounds for a week long ban in the opinion of an authority abiding by the same rules as I have read is to me unfathomable. That this admin's actions represent the Darkly server family's views is to me unthinkable. Therefore, I appeal to the person or persons reading that that have the authority to revoke my ban and investigate further the circumstances of it. I am also sorry that this reads so melodramatically, but I have spent a long time on darkly servers and in my hundreds of hours have not seen this kind of activity, or felt this kind of atmosphere.
Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:33609414
Game: Team Fortress 2
Server: DARKLY | Toronto TF2 Trade/Idle #1 | darklytrade.com
Ban Reason: Racism
State your case: Earlier this evening I was banned from my favorite and most frequently visited trade server for a week on the grounds of supposed "racism," or at least that is how it reads on the ban list. The reality is that I was banned by an admin that found my questioning the value proposition of his trade, which he had been spamming the server with over the audio chat, inconvenient for business. I had no microphone to use at the time so the chat logs at least should attest to the truth of my account of these events as all my communications occurred through chat. Specifically, he had been offering to buy steam trading cards each at the price of one scrap a piece at a quite frequent rate over the microphone. I commented that this was not a good value proposition for the person selling the cards in an objective value sense. He responded with, and I am paraphrasing, 'some people are unable to use the market to sell, so they should be happy to get anything at all.' I was agitated at such a remark's implications, namely that some players do not deserve value for their goods, and I believe whomever reads this might be too as the admin's actions here mirror the prohibited activities of scamming and sharking (guidelines for which are outlined in rules T1 and T2 respectively). I suspected at the time, and am now justified in light of his actions, that this admin had been abusing his position to create an echo chamber wherein those that would comment upon the ethics of his trade proposals might be silenced or banned as I was, all in the interest of allowing those ignorant enough to the value of their items, or in the weakened bargaining position he was preying upon, to be taken advantage of, all to his own advantage. Feeling as I did, i compared his statement that some people do not deserve the same value that others get to the treatment of wealthy Jewish people under the Nazi yolk being made to pay inordinate amounts for the same standards of living as those who were not Jewish. This is obviously hyperbole, but in any case is not a statement endorsing or expressing racism of any kind. Shortly thereafter I was banned by the admin in this account, that i for the record interacted so briefly with that I don't recall his name. That this should be grounds for a week long ban in the opinion of an authority abiding by the same rules as I have read is to me unfathomable. That this admin's actions represent the Darkly server family's views is to me unthinkable. Therefore, I appeal to the person or persons reading that that have the authority to revoke my ban and investigate further the circumstances of it. I am also sorry that this reads so melodramatically, but I have spent a long time on darkly servers and in my hundreds of hours have not seen this kind of activity, or felt this kind of atmosphere.
