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Dear Sythe,
Dear Staff,
my name is Geoffrey, but you may (or may not) know me by the names of Min and Nil Volentibus Arduum. I have asked for a High Pardon twice before if I'm not mistaken: one of which had gotten to a vote but later denied, the other actually did get accepted but I was soon rebanned by Cosrob for having held back information about an imposter account I've used.
Today I'm turning 22 years old, and I once again come forward with my wrongdoings, asking for a chance to be reconsidered for a return amongst you. I've been a Sythe user for as long as I remember. A much younger and more naive version of myself was convinced that it would be easier to 'make money' by stealing and deceiving, rather than by building up a reputation and earning people's trust. Who in their right mind's would be willing to go through the trouble, I thought? I started off attempting to scam users that were selling membership pins, because at that time I was addicted of RuneScape and I was unable to get membership where I lived (no creditcard, no PayPal, hardly had any credit on my cellphone). So that's what I did. My first wrongdoing on Sythe was a fact: I had scammed a membership pin and I couldn't have been more excited. It was only later that I had found out that this person had reported my scamming, and I had been rightfully banned for doing so.
As much as it sucked that I had gotten caught, it didn't take me long to figure out that making a new account was just as easy as making my first one. So that's what I did. A lot of times I'd get banned within the week, even without having scammed anything, which got me puzzled. It wasn't until after a few amount of times that I had been given a ban reason and I found out that what I was doing was basically ban evading, an actual offense. Sadly, at that time, it not once occured to me that I should just appeal the ban. My flawed logic was that if I weren't able to return to Sythe without getting banned, I might aswell return and actually do something bad again, and then get banned overnew. I didn't have much to lose, I thought.
I have no idea of the names of all my old accounts, and I have no actual collection of however much I have scammed in the past. I do have committed things I am not proud of, and I have even done things that honestly disgust me now. I'm sure it's easy to say so and I'm also aware that such statements don't hold much credibility on the internet, but that's nothing but the honest truth. Without sugarcoating anything, the offenses that I commited which I'm able to remember are as follows and most-likely not limited to:
1. Scamming memberships: I've scammed at least three membership pins that I know of here on Sythe. I later moved on to cyberwhoring (not remotely proud of that either). After that, I had learnt about Wallie-cards, which allowed me to get a subscription on RuneScape - I have not scammed a membership since. I'm aware that it doesn't make it any better whatsoever, but I have never scammed/cyberwhored more memberships than I 'needed' at the time.
2. Fake guide selling: I had created an awesome looking guide to transfer money at a decent-ish amount of money per hour back when the trade limit was in effect on RuneScape. I even had a moderator get the guide verified for me, he bought it solely based on the fact by how professional the guide looked. He didn't even bother confirming if it actually worked, which is what managed to get me three or four sales. Ofcourse, the guide didn't work and I got busted. If my memory doesn't fail me, the username of that account was: Trades ^^
3. Impersonating: at one point in time I had made an account and called it 'usfine-john' or something. I never scammed with it, nor even got close to anything similar. I believe I posted with it once and it got banned soon after. Around the same time, or maybe a bit after, I had found a way to create names that appeared to be identical. I made accountnames that looked similar to the top tier fire-capers at the time. I had given that a shot, and I did attempt to scam with it, but I had nobody ever fall for it. The users I tried to impost at that time were Skele Master (whom was also a mod, so I'll include an extra offense 'staff impersonation' for that one) and owain jones.
4. Staff impersonation: see above, 'Skele Master'.
5. Attempt to spreading malware: I gotten talked into spreading malware here on Sythe, which I did trying to come across as professional as I possibly could. I got promised that I'd be getting split loots from any users that would have fallen victim. I tried spreading it on RSBot aswell as here on Sythe, but I got banned instantly, and I had also never gotten word back from my partner in crime which is when I knew that I shouldn't get involved with any of that.
6. Ban evasion: heaps of those, sadly.
7. Scamming junk sales: more on that in the paragraph after the next.
That's the list of the actual wrongdoings that I'm absolutely positive I've committed in a much darker history. Despite that there may have been other offenses that I have forgotten about, I can promise you that I'm not purposely withholding information. I can guarantee that if there would have been any other offenses, none of them would have been substantial. This list should hold all the bigger offenses I have committed.
Luckily enough, over time I grew older and also wiser. I became more involved in community things on RuneScape, I became a staff member in a merchanting clan and I noticed that I could also be a person that people look up to, maybe even help people out rather than being a pain in the ass. My life honestly took a big turn right there and then. I managed to work my way up, slowly but surely. I ended up being a general in that merchanting clan and I helped it grow big and well-known. This was awesome for several reasons: I made money by investing money cleverly, I had to attend group meetings with the leaders, to which I looked up to immensly. I made great friends over the internet during the time, a thought that I before had considered to be rather 'lame'.
It was also around that time that I rejoined Sythe once more, this time I would be known as Min. For the first time I tried to open myself up to the community, help out where I could. I had started a somewhat cheap GFX business, something I liked doing a lot, to make a few bucks here on Sythe. I ended up donating 25$ on Min to help contribute to this website's upkeep. I did free holiday events (actual events with no strings attached). I paid people to buy off the junk I ended up with from merching and I slowly but surely started to prove myself to be a trustworthy person in this community. Business was good and some customers turned into friends. I reported rulebreaking and spam-posts, and I actually liked the involvement in Sythe.
The change was almost TOO drastic one could say. Sadly, it wasn't perfect for too long. At a given time I ended up being stuck with a fair amount of junk from a merch that ended before we were able to hit our target. At that point, time matters, and you'd want to rid of the items as quickly as possible. I had been doing GFX in order to pay for the expenses of people buying my junk, but as this happened well before we had predicted, I had fallen back into old habbits and scammed a fury kit from a user on Sythe which helped me get rid of a big part of the junk. I instantly felt bad for doing so. The same day still, I manned up and I reported myself to HamjamK on Skype, explaining the whole story and that I'd try to pay back the user as soon as possible. I had been given the chance to stay unbanned, do some GFX'ing, and repay the user in full as soon as possible. Which I did. A few weeks went by and I decided it was time that I appealed my Trade With Caution, which had gotten a sufficient amount of support - but someone stumbled upon the demons of my past and I got banned again. Not once had a ban felt worse.
Once again, stupid as I was, I didn't decide to appeal my ban, but start afresh as I had been used to doing. This time as Nil Volentibus Arduum. I pretty much did the same things as I did on Min, which was mainly GFX'ing and some minor help in the community. Once again I had donated 25$ to Sythe, and this time I had been helping staff out with Userimages whenever they requested one. At one point I had made most of the staff's User Images, which I felt proud of. Honestly, it was basically the same thing as Min, there's not much more to add than that I had grown fond of Sythe and had troubles letting go. I'm not sure how I got caught this time, but I did end up getting caught and once again I was devastated.
It was around then that I had created my first high pardon. I wasn't completely honest in it though, mostly due to the fear of not getting accepted. My reasoning: with my history, I wouldn't accept myself back into the community. So I lied. The ban appeal had gotten to a vote due to a sufficient amount of support (of which I was already surprised to be fair), but later on it ended up getting denied. All hope was lost, I thought. That would have been the end of it, for sure. I'm not sure at which point I created the account I'm currently posting from, but it must have been some time around that event.
Anyhow, I tried to forget Sythe, I wanted to move on. I ended up joining Zarpor, a server that I had known because I had been requested to do the graphics for them when I was on Nil Volentibus Arduum. It was a weird situation being a part of Zarpor's community, because a lot of Zarpor's members were coming from Sythe. A fair amount of them were well-respected members, some even friends. Time went by and I had worked my way up to become an owner on Zarpor, something I had never thought possible when I first joined. I continued being a role model, and eventually I was banning people that were breaking the exact same rules as I had been. I had to decide on people's chances to return to a community, which is when I also first started to grasp to concept of Ban Evasion, something I had been doing for a fair amount of time. It was a bit hypocrit really, but I digress...
Soon after I became owner, Sanctuary joined the team again. And not soon after that, Karl and FireZ started getting involved on the server aswell. At that point I had decided that I should tell them about my history. I felt like they needed to know, and they took it far more lightly than I expected them to. I created a second High Pardon, which gotten accepted. Cosrob later did some extra digging and came up with the USfine imposter account, which I had honestly forgotten about. Probably rightfully so, but as such, once again I remained banned. But it was fine, I thought. I didn't really need to be on Sythe, so I left it at that. I was already glad to have come clean to my closest friends, as that was all I did it for.
But anyhow, later on I did find the need to get on Sythe again, and once again I fell in love with the community. I know I'm wrong in constantly evading, and I'm done with hiding and having the past follow me around. If there's anything you find from me in the past that I left out, feel free to confront me about it - I'll try to issue refunds wherever I have debt as soon as possible. I hope I can convince you guys that I'm not that person that my Sythe history may display and I beg you for a final time to consider my return to Sythe.
Geoffrey
Dear Staff,
my name is Geoffrey, but you may (or may not) know me by the names of Min and Nil Volentibus Arduum. I have asked for a High Pardon twice before if I'm not mistaken: one of which had gotten to a vote but later denied, the other actually did get accepted but I was soon rebanned by Cosrob for having held back information about an imposter account I've used.
Today I'm turning 22 years old, and I once again come forward with my wrongdoings, asking for a chance to be reconsidered for a return amongst you. I've been a Sythe user for as long as I remember. A much younger and more naive version of myself was convinced that it would be easier to 'make money' by stealing and deceiving, rather than by building up a reputation and earning people's trust. Who in their right mind's would be willing to go through the trouble, I thought? I started off attempting to scam users that were selling membership pins, because at that time I was addicted of RuneScape and I was unable to get membership where I lived (no creditcard, no PayPal, hardly had any credit on my cellphone). So that's what I did. My first wrongdoing on Sythe was a fact: I had scammed a membership pin and I couldn't have been more excited. It was only later that I had found out that this person had reported my scamming, and I had been rightfully banned for doing so.
As much as it sucked that I had gotten caught, it didn't take me long to figure out that making a new account was just as easy as making my first one. So that's what I did. A lot of times I'd get banned within the week, even without having scammed anything, which got me puzzled. It wasn't until after a few amount of times that I had been given a ban reason and I found out that what I was doing was basically ban evading, an actual offense. Sadly, at that time, it not once occured to me that I should just appeal the ban. My flawed logic was that if I weren't able to return to Sythe without getting banned, I might aswell return and actually do something bad again, and then get banned overnew. I didn't have much to lose, I thought.
I have no idea of the names of all my old accounts, and I have no actual collection of however much I have scammed in the past. I do have committed things I am not proud of, and I have even done things that honestly disgust me now. I'm sure it's easy to say so and I'm also aware that such statements don't hold much credibility on the internet, but that's nothing but the honest truth. Without sugarcoating anything, the offenses that I commited which I'm able to remember are as follows and most-likely not limited to:
1. Scamming memberships: I've scammed at least three membership pins that I know of here on Sythe. I later moved on to cyberwhoring (not remotely proud of that either). After that, I had learnt about Wallie-cards, which allowed me to get a subscription on RuneScape - I have not scammed a membership since. I'm aware that it doesn't make it any better whatsoever, but I have never scammed/cyberwhored more memberships than I 'needed' at the time.
2. Fake guide selling: I had created an awesome looking guide to transfer money at a decent-ish amount of money per hour back when the trade limit was in effect on RuneScape. I even had a moderator get the guide verified for me, he bought it solely based on the fact by how professional the guide looked. He didn't even bother confirming if it actually worked, which is what managed to get me three or four sales. Ofcourse, the guide didn't work and I got busted. If my memory doesn't fail me, the username of that account was: Trades ^^
3. Impersonating: at one point in time I had made an account and called it 'usfine-john' or something. I never scammed with it, nor even got close to anything similar. I believe I posted with it once and it got banned soon after. Around the same time, or maybe a bit after, I had found a way to create names that appeared to be identical. I made accountnames that looked similar to the top tier fire-capers at the time. I had given that a shot, and I did attempt to scam with it, but I had nobody ever fall for it. The users I tried to impost at that time were Skele Master (whom was also a mod, so I'll include an extra offense 'staff impersonation' for that one) and owain jones.
4. Staff impersonation: see above, 'Skele Master'.
5. Attempt to spreading malware: I gotten talked into spreading malware here on Sythe, which I did trying to come across as professional as I possibly could. I got promised that I'd be getting split loots from any users that would have fallen victim. I tried spreading it on RSBot aswell as here on Sythe, but I got banned instantly, and I had also never gotten word back from my partner in crime which is when I knew that I shouldn't get involved with any of that.
6. Ban evasion: heaps of those, sadly.
7. Scamming junk sales: more on that in the paragraph after the next.
That's the list of the actual wrongdoings that I'm absolutely positive I've committed in a much darker history. Despite that there may have been other offenses that I have forgotten about, I can promise you that I'm not purposely withholding information. I can guarantee that if there would have been any other offenses, none of them would have been substantial. This list should hold all the bigger offenses I have committed.
Luckily enough, over time I grew older and also wiser. I became more involved in community things on RuneScape, I became a staff member in a merchanting clan and I noticed that I could also be a person that people look up to, maybe even help people out rather than being a pain in the ass. My life honestly took a big turn right there and then. I managed to work my way up, slowly but surely. I ended up being a general in that merchanting clan and I helped it grow big and well-known. This was awesome for several reasons: I made money by investing money cleverly, I had to attend group meetings with the leaders, to which I looked up to immensly. I made great friends over the internet during the time, a thought that I before had considered to be rather 'lame'.
It was also around that time that I rejoined Sythe once more, this time I would be known as Min. For the first time I tried to open myself up to the community, help out where I could. I had started a somewhat cheap GFX business, something I liked doing a lot, to make a few bucks here on Sythe. I ended up donating 25$ on Min to help contribute to this website's upkeep. I did free holiday events (actual events with no strings attached). I paid people to buy off the junk I ended up with from merching and I slowly but surely started to prove myself to be a trustworthy person in this community. Business was good and some customers turned into friends. I reported rulebreaking and spam-posts, and I actually liked the involvement in Sythe.
The change was almost TOO drastic one could say. Sadly, it wasn't perfect for too long. At a given time I ended up being stuck with a fair amount of junk from a merch that ended before we were able to hit our target. At that point, time matters, and you'd want to rid of the items as quickly as possible. I had been doing GFX in order to pay for the expenses of people buying my junk, but as this happened well before we had predicted, I had fallen back into old habbits and scammed a fury kit from a user on Sythe which helped me get rid of a big part of the junk. I instantly felt bad for doing so. The same day still, I manned up and I reported myself to HamjamK on Skype, explaining the whole story and that I'd try to pay back the user as soon as possible. I had been given the chance to stay unbanned, do some GFX'ing, and repay the user in full as soon as possible. Which I did. A few weeks went by and I decided it was time that I appealed my Trade With Caution, which had gotten a sufficient amount of support - but someone stumbled upon the demons of my past and I got banned again. Not once had a ban felt worse.
Once again, stupid as I was, I didn't decide to appeal my ban, but start afresh as I had been used to doing. This time as Nil Volentibus Arduum. I pretty much did the same things as I did on Min, which was mainly GFX'ing and some minor help in the community. Once again I had donated 25$ to Sythe, and this time I had been helping staff out with Userimages whenever they requested one. At one point I had made most of the staff's User Images, which I felt proud of. Honestly, it was basically the same thing as Min, there's not much more to add than that I had grown fond of Sythe and had troubles letting go. I'm not sure how I got caught this time, but I did end up getting caught and once again I was devastated.
It was around then that I had created my first high pardon. I wasn't completely honest in it though, mostly due to the fear of not getting accepted. My reasoning: with my history, I wouldn't accept myself back into the community. So I lied. The ban appeal had gotten to a vote due to a sufficient amount of support (of which I was already surprised to be fair), but later on it ended up getting denied. All hope was lost, I thought. That would have been the end of it, for sure. I'm not sure at which point I created the account I'm currently posting from, but it must have been some time around that event.
Anyhow, I tried to forget Sythe, I wanted to move on. I ended up joining Zarpor, a server that I had known because I had been requested to do the graphics for them when I was on Nil Volentibus Arduum. It was a weird situation being a part of Zarpor's community, because a lot of Zarpor's members were coming from Sythe. A fair amount of them were well-respected members, some even friends. Time went by and I had worked my way up to become an owner on Zarpor, something I had never thought possible when I first joined. I continued being a role model, and eventually I was banning people that were breaking the exact same rules as I had been. I had to decide on people's chances to return to a community, which is when I also first started to grasp to concept of Ban Evasion, something I had been doing for a fair amount of time. It was a bit hypocrit really, but I digress...
Soon after I became owner, Sanctuary joined the team again. And not soon after that, Karl and FireZ started getting involved on the server aswell. At that point I had decided that I should tell them about my history. I felt like they needed to know, and they took it far more lightly than I expected them to. I created a second High Pardon, which gotten accepted. Cosrob later did some extra digging and came up with the USfine imposter account, which I had honestly forgotten about. Probably rightfully so, but as such, once again I remained banned. But it was fine, I thought. I didn't really need to be on Sythe, so I left it at that. I was already glad to have come clean to my closest friends, as that was all I did it for.
But anyhow, later on I did find the need to get on Sythe again, and once again I fell in love with the community. I know I'm wrong in constantly evading, and I'm done with hiding and having the past follow me around. If there's anything you find from me in the past that I left out, feel free to confront me about it - I'll try to issue refunds wherever I have debt as soon as possible. I hope I can convince you guys that I'm not that person that my Sythe history may display and I beg you for a final time to consider my return to Sythe.
Geoffrey
