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Unban Appeal for KCAJ
In-game Name: Jack Ronald
Server: GTA RP
Steam ID: 76561198178018448
Ban ID: !!rpuk13786!!
Reason given for your ban: Revenge report
In your own words, please type why you think you were banned.: The reason that I was banned is due to myself sending something on a individual in the community after something had happened in roleplay, due to this it was classed as an act of revenge and therefore deemed that I had broken the rule “revenge report”.
Why should we unban you ?: Over my time on RPUK I have been banned a few times, with the most important and significant bans being one for metagaming, of which I was unbanned and learnt from the mistake that I made, and the effect that this had on other people and the disruption that it caused.
The other ban I received was for exploiting, this was when I was still a newcomer to the GTA RPUK server and thought that it was acceptable to cause a –1 rating on someone's Tweedle post, there was an element where you had to double click to cause the negative rating and whilst doing it caused a Tweedle post to become –100 rating.
I have also received some warnings, but the main thing that I take pride in is being able to learn from mistakes made, which I feel is vital in order to improve the community and help keep the community of high quality, if someone is repeating the same mistake then there is a clear lack of consideration for the other members of the community and their experience.
Before my ban I do admit that I became lazier and stopped being so proactive, a reason for this is I felt burnt out and was almost playing the server because I felt I had to and not because I wanted to, and there was an obvious decline in my roleplay and 229’s roleplay, I am not entirely blaming this as the reason but not leading by example was a definite mistake.
The outcome from this was a decline in my attitude toward the server at the time and not realising that I was making these mistakes, leading myself to become more bitter to other members of the community and arguing a lot of the time with the staff team, now whilst my arguments might have had some relevance the way I went about things was wrong, and for that I can only apologise. At the time a different or differing opinion was something that I took personal instead of realising that people are entitled to their own opinions. Looking back, I was extremely immature, and the decisions that I was making lacked the qualities of a good leader.
I take responsibility for the decline in roleplay provided by 229 and the experience that others were having being of a lesser quality due to this, I take responsibility for this because as a leader it was my responsibility to ensure the members of my gang were informed when they have made mistakes or how to improve, and due to my feelings toward the server at the time there was less and less communication between myself and the members of my gang about improvements they could make.
However something that I do pride myself on, is that for a long time I made sure that I was proactive and ensured that all mistakes that the members of 229 were making were outlined and they were giving a clear plan on how to improve the mistakes that they have made, and ensure that mistakes were not repeated, as I have always felt repeating the same mistake is no longer a mistake and becomes more of an intention. I tried wherever possible to attend all conversations that people were having and make sure that the outcome was positive for all parties involved and ensure that the changes were implemented into the server, thus improving the scenarios that we were engaging with and making sure that anyone interacting with 229 was positive.
I spent a large amount of my time whilst playing the server attempting to improve the community and allow for growth of the community, I always spent time explaining people's mistakes and ideas that they could apply to their roleplay in the next instance.
Over time this started declining and the reason behind this was because I was burnt out and had little motivation to do so, I started to play the blame game, and pass of my mistakes onto other things, looking back this was a key mistake in the decline of my own roleplay, and the lack of my roleplay was directly accountable for the lack of roleplay provided by 229. Taking a break from the server was something that I needed to do more frequently, to allow myself time away and to think over the things I was doing and to ensure that I kept a positive attitude and remained proactive throughout my time as a leader.
The constant battles 229 got into, which again as a leader is something that I can only take the blame for, was partly the reason that I did not take these breaks as I felt I had to be there, and the tedious nature of constantly fighting with little intervals was always going to become a reason for someone's lack of motivation. Repeating the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is classed as insanity. Whilst I am not insane, the actions that we were repeating was never going to lead to a positive and engaging experience whilst playing the server, and lead to more and more liaisons and negative interactions between members of the community and the staff team, something that inevitably lead to my ban.
The reason that I feel I should be unbanned is that I have taken time to digest the reason for my ban and the mistakes that I repeatedly made, I have always prided myself on being able to improve mistakes whilst my recent history and actions does not show this to the best extent, I can ensure you that I will remain that proactive member of the community that is striving to improve not only myself but the people around me at all times, and take the breaks when needed to remain motivated.
I feel that before the last 3-4 months before my ban, every situation that I was in I attempted to provide unique and high-quality roleplay not only for my own entertainment but for the other parties involved, and wherever possible I was trying to push this onto the people around me and create an environment that was exciting to be a part of. I spent time coming up with new ideas and ways of making situations fun, and not repeating the same scripts until they were blatantly obvious and predictable, I pride myself on being able to do this.
Despite the mistakes that I have made I can assure you that If I was given another chance to be a member of the community that you would see myself bringing a positive influence rather than one heading in a negative direction, and I will not repeat the actions leading to my ban.
I feel that more detail Is required on the reasons for why, before the ban I did notice a decline in the roleplay my gang was providing and realised deep down that the reasons for this was mostly myself, whilst people in the gang made mistakes, the repetition of this was my responsibility. I felt the gang slipping and I was always one step behind I was trying to argue the mistakes that the gang was making, rather than being proactive about this and stopping them before they happened, and being on the back foot all the time was a greater drain on my own motivation, meaning that it became a vicious cycle. As I said earlier there was a great decline in my attitude towards most things, and an ever-greater decline in my leadership.
Since my time leading 229 I took a lot of players in that many others wouldn’t have do their history, I provided an environment for them that was fun but still pursued high quality roleplay, and for a long time there was the perfect balance, between fun and seriousness. I only ever wanted to provide a place for people to have fun and enjoy themselves as we all know people play the server for a break from reality and to have freedom in whatever storyline that they decide to be, being able to help provide that to 23 people for nearly 2 years was something I was very proud of.
The idea of losing this at the time was something that I took very personal, I was blindsided and the repeated mistakes and the backlash we received because of this was something I took personal because I felt I was doing positive as explained in the previous paragraph, when I wasn’t anymore.
Whilst I might have been providing a fun environment for the members of 229 at the time, there was a element in which we were taking this away from others and there was no longer any balance or equilibria between what the gang and I was doing compared to others. There was a lack of consideration for the other people that we were interacting with, and therefore the complaints kept rolling in, and I did take the initiative to change anything because I didn’t want to take the “fun” away for 229.
Now looking back this was the biggest mistake I made, not changing things soon enough and when I realised that it was too far gone to be saved was around the time that I received the ban.
I have had three months to think about this and by appealing in the first place I hope it’s known that I do want to be a part of the community not only for my own benefit but to help repair the mistakes that I have made and the overall effect that this might have had on members of the community, I know there is a serious doubt on whether I do want to return and make improvements to the mistakes that I have previous outlined.
But I hope the effort that I have put into this appeal shows the first steps in improving the previous mistakes and a general attitude that I do want to be better; I know that there is a lack of trust right now and that is something that I endeavour to regain over time and I know that it is going to take a lot of time and not something that Is going to happen quickly.
I have been a part of the community since 2015 and seen the growth that the server has had, and I want to remain a part of the community and continue seeing the growth.
I understand that I might not have covered specific questions or reasons for certain actions that I have taken, but I have attempted my best to generalise everything, if you have any questions or require myself to go into more specific detail surrounding certain topics, I can.
Thank you for taking the time to read.
KC
Please confirm that you have read the unban appeal process and rules: Yes
In-game Name: Jack Ronald
Server: GTA RP
Steam ID: 76561198178018448
Ban ID: !!rpuk13786!!
Reason given for your ban: Revenge report
In your own words, please type why you think you were banned.: The reason that I was banned is due to myself sending something on a individual in the community after something had happened in roleplay, due to this it was classed as an act of revenge and therefore deemed that I had broken the rule “revenge report”.
Why should we unban you ?: Over my time on RPUK I have been banned a few times, with the most important and significant bans being one for metagaming, of which I was unbanned and learnt from the mistake that I made, and the effect that this had on other people and the disruption that it caused.
The other ban I received was for exploiting, this was when I was still a newcomer to the GTA RPUK server and thought that it was acceptable to cause a –1 rating on someone's Tweedle post, there was an element where you had to double click to cause the negative rating and whilst doing it caused a Tweedle post to become –100 rating.
I have also received some warnings, but the main thing that I take pride in is being able to learn from mistakes made, which I feel is vital in order to improve the community and help keep the community of high quality, if someone is repeating the same mistake then there is a clear lack of consideration for the other members of the community and their experience.
Before my ban I do admit that I became lazier and stopped being so proactive, a reason for this is I felt burnt out and was almost playing the server because I felt I had to and not because I wanted to, and there was an obvious decline in my roleplay and 229’s roleplay, I am not entirely blaming this as the reason but not leading by example was a definite mistake.
The outcome from this was a decline in my attitude toward the server at the time and not realising that I was making these mistakes, leading myself to become more bitter to other members of the community and arguing a lot of the time with the staff team, now whilst my arguments might have had some relevance the way I went about things was wrong, and for that I can only apologise. At the time a different or differing opinion was something that I took personal instead of realising that people are entitled to their own opinions. Looking back, I was extremely immature, and the decisions that I was making lacked the qualities of a good leader.
I take responsibility for the decline in roleplay provided by 229 and the experience that others were having being of a lesser quality due to this, I take responsibility for this because as a leader it was my responsibility to ensure the members of my gang were informed when they have made mistakes or how to improve, and due to my feelings toward the server at the time there was less and less communication between myself and the members of my gang about improvements they could make.
However something that I do pride myself on, is that for a long time I made sure that I was proactive and ensured that all mistakes that the members of 229 were making were outlined and they were giving a clear plan on how to improve the mistakes that they have made, and ensure that mistakes were not repeated, as I have always felt repeating the same mistake is no longer a mistake and becomes more of an intention. I tried wherever possible to attend all conversations that people were having and make sure that the outcome was positive for all parties involved and ensure that the changes were implemented into the server, thus improving the scenarios that we were engaging with and making sure that anyone interacting with 229 was positive.
I spent a large amount of my time whilst playing the server attempting to improve the community and allow for growth of the community, I always spent time explaining people's mistakes and ideas that they could apply to their roleplay in the next instance.
Over time this started declining and the reason behind this was because I was burnt out and had little motivation to do so, I started to play the blame game, and pass of my mistakes onto other things, looking back this was a key mistake in the decline of my own roleplay, and the lack of my roleplay was directly accountable for the lack of roleplay provided by 229. Taking a break from the server was something that I needed to do more frequently, to allow myself time away and to think over the things I was doing and to ensure that I kept a positive attitude and remained proactive throughout my time as a leader.
The constant battles 229 got into, which again as a leader is something that I can only take the blame for, was partly the reason that I did not take these breaks as I felt I had to be there, and the tedious nature of constantly fighting with little intervals was always going to become a reason for someone's lack of motivation. Repeating the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is classed as insanity. Whilst I am not insane, the actions that we were repeating was never going to lead to a positive and engaging experience whilst playing the server, and lead to more and more liaisons and negative interactions between members of the community and the staff team, something that inevitably lead to my ban.
The reason that I feel I should be unbanned is that I have taken time to digest the reason for my ban and the mistakes that I repeatedly made, I have always prided myself on being able to improve mistakes whilst my recent history and actions does not show this to the best extent, I can ensure you that I will remain that proactive member of the community that is striving to improve not only myself but the people around me at all times, and take the breaks when needed to remain motivated.
I feel that before the last 3-4 months before my ban, every situation that I was in I attempted to provide unique and high-quality roleplay not only for my own entertainment but for the other parties involved, and wherever possible I was trying to push this onto the people around me and create an environment that was exciting to be a part of. I spent time coming up with new ideas and ways of making situations fun, and not repeating the same scripts until they were blatantly obvious and predictable, I pride myself on being able to do this.
Despite the mistakes that I have made I can assure you that If I was given another chance to be a member of the community that you would see myself bringing a positive influence rather than one heading in a negative direction, and I will not repeat the actions leading to my ban.
I feel that more detail Is required on the reasons for why, before the ban I did notice a decline in the roleplay my gang was providing and realised deep down that the reasons for this was mostly myself, whilst people in the gang made mistakes, the repetition of this was my responsibility. I felt the gang slipping and I was always one step behind I was trying to argue the mistakes that the gang was making, rather than being proactive about this and stopping them before they happened, and being on the back foot all the time was a greater drain on my own motivation, meaning that it became a vicious cycle. As I said earlier there was a great decline in my attitude towards most things, and an ever-greater decline in my leadership.
Since my time leading 229 I took a lot of players in that many others wouldn’t have do their history, I provided an environment for them that was fun but still pursued high quality roleplay, and for a long time there was the perfect balance, between fun and seriousness. I only ever wanted to provide a place for people to have fun and enjoy themselves as we all know people play the server for a break from reality and to have freedom in whatever storyline that they decide to be, being able to help provide that to 23 people for nearly 2 years was something I was very proud of.
The idea of losing this at the time was something that I took very personal, I was blindsided and the repeated mistakes and the backlash we received because of this was something I took personal because I felt I was doing positive as explained in the previous paragraph, when I wasn’t anymore.
Whilst I might have been providing a fun environment for the members of 229 at the time, there was a element in which we were taking this away from others and there was no longer any balance or equilibria between what the gang and I was doing compared to others. There was a lack of consideration for the other people that we were interacting with, and therefore the complaints kept rolling in, and I did take the initiative to change anything because I didn’t want to take the “fun” away for 229.
Now looking back this was the biggest mistake I made, not changing things soon enough and when I realised that it was too far gone to be saved was around the time that I received the ban.
I have had three months to think about this and by appealing in the first place I hope it’s known that I do want to be a part of the community not only for my own benefit but to help repair the mistakes that I have made and the overall effect that this might have had on members of the community, I know there is a serious doubt on whether I do want to return and make improvements to the mistakes that I have previous outlined.
But I hope the effort that I have put into this appeal shows the first steps in improving the previous mistakes and a general attitude that I do want to be better; I know that there is a lack of trust right now and that is something that I endeavour to regain over time and I know that it is going to take a lot of time and not something that Is going to happen quickly.
I have been a part of the community since 2015 and seen the growth that the server has had, and I want to remain a part of the community and continue seeing the growth.
I understand that I might not have covered specific questions or reasons for certain actions that I have taken, but I have attempted my best to generalise everything, if you have any questions or require myself to go into more specific detail surrounding certain topics, I can.
Thank you for taking the time to read.
KC
Please confirm that you have read the unban appeal process and rules: Yes
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