Hello, rather than post about this on the ban appeal itself I wanted to bring attention here and broaden the scope of this post.
I am very remote when it comes to Halo's affairs, the most recent and relevant thing to happen to come out of Halo was Jackie Blackie's "Halo C-Ban" which in an of itself is an odd sanction as it isn't consistent with other Super-enacted punishments.
I expressed concern over a not-so-recent decision by Lexa to ban user Skinsfan5 from server over a discord ban. Their appeal is still up, visibility of the ban is definitely assured as someone posted on it and got their post deleted or edited by Lexa herself, so it's not like Lexa hasn't seen the post.
@@Lexa decided to ban a person off the Halo server for transphobic Discord remarks. I've read some of the appeals and I can't help but wonder why a server ban was placed on this person for discord conduct given what you've said about punishments on different platforms (more on this below). I even looked to see if it's anywhere on their code of conduct or discord rules that such an action is possible.
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/GZUcxma.png]
Nowhere in here does it say that a discord ban will result in a server ban, strip from rank, anything.
Then we have Lexa's post here which criticizes a ban appeal which resulted in the extension of a player's Hogwarts server ban to a perma due to threats against another user which occurred on the forum.
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/v0XKycS.png]
(Following this, there were some ghost changes to the ban appeal format that weren't announced to the staff team at the time, but were supposedly decided by Forum staff at a meeting that happened in the distant past.)
In lexa's own words, "breaking forum rules results in forum ban, breaking server rules results in a server ban[...] Staff can't carry out a vendetta against everything that makes a player "bad," all they can do is punish individual infractions"
You only remember dealing with a similar situation once on HWRP, and an [admin] was suspended over it. You go on to say this specific case was an overzealous use of their position, without the intention of abuse.
You say all this, and in your response to me in this post, you finish it off with
Quote:We absolutely need a fair system, it is extremely important
By your same logic,
breaking discord rules (transphobic remarks) shouldn't lead to
server bans, and yet they do. It seems you are carrying out a vendetta against this user, the same sort of vendetta you criticized the HWRP staff team a year ago for executing on a player.
How is this a fair system?
I posted on the recent appeal as well.
In a non-inciteful way, I also went onto your discord to ask if anyone would like to contribute to this feedback. I got 2 responses so far, and my DMs are open for other members of the community if others want to submit anonymous feedback.
Halo community feedback #1
[Image:
https://i.imgur.com/mXCaUY1.png]
Halo community feedback #2
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/IwbR9gr.png]
addendum:
[Image:
https://i.imgur.com/8GakYeW.png]
Now I don't think anyone is about to state identity politics and say that the trans player should be unbanned because they are trans and the memes were self deprecating (it's the same argument as "i'm black so I can say the n-word"), but I can't help but feel that you've become a little myopic in dishing out punishment.
I've been targeted with videos as well. It's part of being on the internet. You have many options when confronted with offensive content-
block the people, delete the content, ban them, and when you have no control over these you can choose to
ignore it, leave a comment, report it, or not visit the platform or user's content altogether.
edit: based on the feedback from the Halo community, it seems you tend to act harshly on people who disagree with your decisions- in other words, some might call you a tyrant. I too disagree with some of your decisions as a forum manager but I am not victim to the backlash, sometimes you are very proactive, and sometimes I see the bias shining through (especially as it pertains to protecting Jacob Nova's position and anti-trans offenses including misgendering being treated more harshly than hatespeech and severe disrespect). Is this a concern that bothers you at all? If at all possible, please answer from your Halo position POV and Forum Manager POV.
I'll admit I'm a stranger to your whole side of SBS, but through your own words and criticisms, if this was Hogwarts or Clone Wars doing something similar- as observed in the past, you would be calling for immediate removals of the bans, and that bans that happen on different mediums (discord, forums, servers) should stay on those servers except for when it's a community ban.
Someone also has a permanent signature ban for saying there are only two genders in monopoly without previous warns for their signature, why is this in place? People have also been observing weird behavior from you, such as erasing all mentions of your previous name and editing other peoples posts to reflect this (one example of many here in Alex Casey's closing post). I can understand changing a few details to older posts to edit out vital info that can be considered self-doxxing, but going through every old post and deleting mentions of a fictional name you used to use? Are other users given such treatment, or is this the perk of being a @@
Forum Manager?
My main question for you (and probably a question from many others) is why you decide to overrespond to anti-trans comments and memes and why are you carrying out vendettas against players for discord conduct on-server when this is something you stand against and criticize in other parts of the community?
