Unban Appeal - CarlosUnban - GTA RP

[CarlosUnban]

Unban Appeal for CarlosUnban 

In-game Name: Carlos Senna

Server: GTA RP

Steam ID: 76561198280637328

Ban ID: n/a

Reason given for your ban: 1.6

In your own words, please type why you think you were banned.:

I was banned for making silly pointless posts on the forums.

Upon my initial post in which I was misusing my forum account I created a report a player post reporting my mate for being a “bitch” now this was completely unnecessary an just plain stupid on my end, I was in a call with said mate and was just pissing about, I ended up getting carried away and using the forums in an inappropriate way to try and get a laugh. As I've said in previous appeals, I do apologise to the staff for wasting their time and can completely see how it warranted a warning point.

Now the second warning point came from me basically doing the exact same thing, I had logged onto the forums and seen that for the first time (in my time on the server at least) there was no “report a player” posts, me being stupid at the time thought It would be funny in making a post just reporting the forums for having no posts. In hindsight I can see how it isn't funny at all and again just wasting staff time.

The final warning points and ban came from me again not my lesson from the previous two and doing the exact same thing. I made a post recommending a player that had recently been banned the reasoning I did this was I didn’t know why he had been banned and again was just trying to be funny involving myself in something that I didn’t need to be in. I can only apologise to the staff for all these posts and can fully understand the ban that was given.

Why should we unban you ?: 

I believe I should be unbanned as I feel like I have learned from my mistakes, I realise that all the things that contributed towards my ban were very childish, I know I need to go about things in a more mature manner or to just keep out of things that don’t involve me.

Whilst being away from the community I realised just how much I have missed it, I have missed all the interactions that used to occur on the server, and I've missed having rp experiences with my friends on the server.

I also feel like anytime I spent playing the server I tried my hardest to provide fun rp experiences for people, never having any issues in rp resulting in any sort of warnings or bans, I feel like I warranted my place in the community, with my record of no prior bans in rp I think I have shown that I can be mature enough to follow the server rules.

I can only assure that if given the chance to be part of the community again I will steer clear of any controversy or misuse of the forums and will respect the rules to the fullest.

Being away from RPUK you realise that there aren't any servers like it, with the community it has it makes it by far the most enjoyable server to play, and I wouldn’t take for granted being allowed back.

Thank you for your time again, Carlos.

Please confirm that you have read the unban appeal process and rules: Yes

 

[Liam]

Much better appeal this time around.

This C1.6 is your one and only ban in your entire time in this community, you don’t even have a warning or any other sort of note on your profile. 
 

Can you go into detail as to what happened to your Ballas character “Carlos Senna”, and what led to him getting life?

 

[CarlosUnban]

Thanks for the reply.

Well what happened to the character "Carlos Senna" is kind of exactly what i wanted to happen with it. Carlos was always my main criminal character and the goal for me was to end up in life in prison. I had actually opened ticket at one point asking staff if the character could eventually be lifed off with a string of rp scenarios happening first, i was told that the character had not done enough to warrant life an asked why i even wanted it, This confused me as any time my character was caught by police in rp they would always go on about the amount of crimes listed on my "PNC", id also seen people get lifed off for what seemed less so i was abit angry at the time that the staff hadn't even really entertained my proposal. 

This was also at a time where i wanted out of ballas, It wasnt the same gang anymore things were changing an people/friends were leaving, things were also building hotter for carlos in rp, prison sentences were getting higher, an i thought that if i managed to get lifed off that it was almost like killing two birds with one stone. It would have taken me out of ballas, an given me exactly what i wanted for the character.

Now i would of preferred to go about it in a better way but at that time i had it set in my mind what i wanted, So i knew that if i kept managing to escape from prison, my time would keep getting doubled until the presumable life sentence came, At the time i did think it probably wasn't the best way to go about it, So i would try an provide funny "RP" scenarios that would lead to my capture, as I've stated my mind was already made up for what i wanted for that character at the time, an i knew that escaping prison would at least get me there.

 

[Liam]

Thanks for the effort, and detail.

I do remember hearing about this scenario with Carlos Senna it was just a shame to see that you ended up with a C1.6 due to your troll behaviour at the time.

How can we trust that you wont go down that route again? C1.6 is a hefty offence to be given.

What do you plan on doing IF unbanned?

 

[CarlosUnban]

Well, If I were to be unbanned, I defiantly don’t plan on going down that sort of route again as it was a stupid sort of route anyway, but i also want to be able to stay an enjoy being part of the community again.

My main plan would be trying my best to get Carlos released from jail, I would like to be able to develop his story further and carry on with his menacing life outside of jail, I would also like to be able to catch up with people I haven't managed to speak to, since leaving the community.
As I've said before I realise now what I did for my ban was the wrong thing to do and if given the chance I want to provide the high-quality roleplay that I've had before on the server, an that I know I can give.

 

[Liam]

Can you tell me about the status updates that you were creating prior to your last appeal last month?

 

[CarlosUnban]

Well i had been told that me saying "I had found Jesus" in my last appeal didn't help me an that the staff just viewed it as sarcasm.
There was never any sarcasm behind the comment, so I decided that with my unban account still being active on the forums, I would keep my name active within the community an start to post daily scriptures from the bible.
I had also remembered seeing in the past how other members of the community that were banned from the server still had active forum accounts an would actively update there status's.
So I don't regret using my unban account in that way as I personally don't see the issue in any of the posts I had made.

I apologise if this came off as sarcastic/trolling but there wasn't any means behind it

 

[Lunar]

so I decided that with my unban account still being active on the forums, I would keep my name active within the community an start to post daily scriptures from the bible.

Please take a read through our unban appeal wiki guide found here https://wiki.roleplay.co.uk/Guide:Unban_Appeal (This information is also available on the roleplay.co.uk discord channel titled "#ive-been-banned") focusing on the last paragraph do you still think you should have continued to post on the forums after being forum banned on your original account?

Considering you created a forum account using the correct suffix "_unban" you must have read this information already, did you choose to ignore it or do you find our rules hard to remember/understand?

If you created another forum account, you were either creating it to post an unban appeal using your original account name followed by the "_UNBAN" suffix or you were creating a new forum account to get around your forum ban (ban-evade). If you created an account with the intention to post an unban appeal, you should not be posting anything else on our forums other than the unban appeal itself and any subsequent replies to that appeal.

This restriction/ban is in place for a reason and continuing to post with another account, regardless of the content, is ban evading.

Quotes from the Bible were not the only things that you posted on that account but that's a smaller point.

i had been told that me saying "I had found Jesus" in my last appeal didn't help me an that the staff just viewed it as sarcasm.
There was never any sarcasm behind the comment, so I decided that with my unban account still being active on the forums, I would keep my name active within the community an start to post daily scriptures from the bible.

First of all, I do not see anywhere in your previous appeals after you stated that you had "found god", where staff have said that they view it as sarcasm but whether they did or didn't is beside the point. Let's pretend for now that they did.

After staff told you that involving your supposed newfound belief in Jesus/God was not helping your appeal. You decide to double down and started posting quotes from the Bible on our forums whilst still forum banned? I don't understand why you think that was a smart move.

I feel as if you either:

A - Think that sharing your religious values and beliefs would make staff believe that you had become a better person than you were and that you had grown as a person.

or B - You are using religion as a way to troll the staff and community members here, as a mockery of the religion itself and the staff. If you are using religion as something to lean back on to support your claims but do not believe in it, you are a pharisaic liar with no regard for others' beliefs.

"Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." - Matthew 7:15. Comes to mind, this is a passage you posted on the forums after being forum banned.

To add some passages myself:

• "They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good." - Titus 1:16
  
• “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven." - Matthew 6:1
  

Considering you believed that you had already been told by staff that we view your use of religion in your appeal to be of a sarcastic nature, and if option A were true, you would realize that this is not the place to preach religious views and would have stopped, but you didn't. Instead of doing the correct thing stated in the unban wiki and info channels, you decided to start posting quotes from the bible on the forums whilst still banned.

You posted about finding god in an appeal, staff told you they weren't buying it so you wanted to try and somehow solidify the narrative that you were religious and god fearing by posting quotes from the Bible on the forums, forgetting the fact that this would be seen as ban evading. You posted those religious quotes in hopes that staff would see them and buy into your claims without realizing that staff do not hold a religious bias, they will still treat you the same. Being religious does not inherently affect a person's moral compass, you do not have to be religious to be a good person and live by good practices.

Unfortunately whilst you may hold these values and beliefs, you still have more to learn from the same Bible you are quoting. It might be worth practicing what you preach.

The Bible often teaches forgiveness, but it is also important to understand when forgiveness should be given. For you, that is not today. You fail to understand why posting things on our forums after being forum banned is not allowed, you fail to follow the instructions that were laid out to you when creating a new forum account for the purpose of an appeal, and you fail to follow the very principles and practices of the religion you are attempting to use as a pillar to hold up the narrative that you have grown as a person.

If you cannot follow the principles and practices of the religion you proclaim as your own, how can we expect you to follow the rules and practices we put in place after you have already violated them to get yourself banned and have even failed to follow our guidance for appealing that ban.

I am placing you on a cooldown of appeal lasting 3 months from today. You may submit another appeal after the 18th of October 2023 (18/10/23). Should you still fail to understand why what you did was wrong, a 6 month cooldown of appeal will follow to allow you more time to reflect and learn about our rules and the practices of your own religion.

Should you decide to start posting anything other than an unban appeal on this forum account or any other forum account whilst your original/main forum account is still forum banned, a cooldown of appeal lasting 12 months will follow.