My ban dispute

[-blindkilla]

State your Sythe name: blindkilla
State why you were Temporarily banned (1 month)
State why Temporary ban was unwarranted:

I posted a warez link twice. After the second time I was notified it's against the rules, so I removed it. At this point in time I had already forgotten about the previous warez link I posted and so I forgot to remove it.

Why did I post them? I was trying to help someone out, not realizing it was against the rules.

If the rule is in place to protect the owner of the site (sythe), and is punishable by a 1 month ban, why were my warez links not removed following my ban? The only person to care enough about the rule was me, because after I was notified that it's against the rules, I immediately removed the link I remembered posting. However, blade bro in my "scam report" linked to another warez link that I had forgotten about. After being banned, FireZ didn't even remove the post containing the warez link, therefore the rule is frivolous. (inb4 it's removed after seeing this)

State the moderator who applied action(s) on you (if known): FireZ

Additional information goes here and in subsequent bullet points

• I was trying to help members.
• The link(s) weren't a big deal, I removed immediately.
• Everyone I talked to agreed the ban was overzealously handled and unwarrented.

 

[FireZ]

In lieu of this kindergarten horsecrap from blade....I am unbanning you...Finn says it well:

This is completely correct - you technically haven't done anything wrong.

However, you clearly reported the post Blindkilla made in an attempt at retribution, seeing as you had some childish argument with him and then dug up the post he had made. The reason that your ban will remain is because you were clearly aware that Blindkilla had breached our policy on Warez but did not decide to report; instead, you left it and then sought to dig it up in order to have him punished after he annoyed you.

I have no problem with reports being made when individuals have broken the rules, but I will not tolerate reports being made simply to spite other users because of a personal argument you have had with them. That you did not immediately report the post demonstrates clearly that you knew it had been made and yet chose not to report it right away.

As a lesson for your arrogance and spite for others, I have elected to uphold the ban Karl gave you - reports should not be made to spite others, but when a rule has been broken or a policy breached. Unfortunately for you, you ignored the initial offence and then dug it back up to spite Blindkilla. Whilst Blindkilla should have known better, so should have you.

See you in a month.

I don't put up with this hypocritical stuff....now don't do it again.