CSS - 30 day ban appeal

**Sc0tty** · 05-31-10, 03:14 AM

#1. Why do you think you got banned?
I was banned for crashing the TPG servers during prime time when I shouldn't have. I would link my previous ban thread, but I can't seem to find it.

STEAM_0:0:11767837

#2. What server were you on? What admin do you believe banned you? What admins were there playing?
Can't remember what server I was on, either Top5 or Main.

#3. Why should you be unbanned?
I'm very sorry for what I've done, and it's been a month. Over that time, I've learned my lesson and how I should have handled the situation.

#4. A written statement that you will refrain from doing anything that will get you banned again.
I'm very sorry for what I've done, I've learned from my mistakes, and I promise that something like that will never happen again. I love playing on TPG, and the last month has been a headache trying to go through pubs and play with sensible and manageable players.

<3

Found the old thread here:
http://www.teamplayergaming.com/show...ort.?p=1226390

**BigHub** · 06-02-10, 01:17 PM

Thank you for following the proper format.

To refresh some memories (last appeal):

Originally Posted by Sc0tty

#1. Why do you think you got banned?
I got banned for crashing the CSS main and top5 servers.

#2. What server were you on? What admin do you believe banned you? What admins were there playing?
I joined both main and top5 and caused them to crash.
Arreo banned me, because he told me so. :P
Vafa was there as well... not sure what other admins were there.

#3. Why should you be unbanned?
In all honesty, and I say this in 100% truth, I didn't have any harmful intention to the players on the servers at the time, or to the community as a whole. Rather, I was trying to pinpoint this bug I just found so I could report it to a high admin and hopefully get them to fix it so it wouldn't crash for the same reason by non-regular. I'm still unsure if I should post here how to go about what I did to crash the server, and I say this because I know these forums are public and outsiders can see this and potentially crash the servers on purpose. If, however, an admin would like me to message them in private, or just post here about how I did it, then I'd be more than happy to oblige. I've already told Arreo how it happened, but if you'd still like me to tell, then that's fine too.
I've done nothing harmful to TTP before, and I have no reason to now, as I love to play on the servers. And I will make my apology here to everyone who had their time cut from the servers for a little bit from the inconveniences. I'm sorry I crashed the servers, and I'm sorry it caused downtime for everyone on the servers, and I don't blame anyone if you hate me or not for it.
Once again, I love to play on TTP's servers, and I wouldn't do anything to hurt the community.

#4. A written statement that you will refrain from doing anything that will get you banned again.
I, Sc0tty, will refrain from doing such things as I have and will go about more appropriate ways to help the community. As someone mentioned to me before, it might have helped if I had done it early in the morning, when no one was on, to test it, but I probably would've forgotten about it by then. But nonetheless, I should've just brought it to an admins attention first so that maybe they could've experimented with it themselves or for me to help them see what I was talking about during downtime when everyone's asleep or something.

Again, I'm sorry for the inconveniences I've caused everyone, and I know it was a bad move to make, but I was just trying to help out the community in the long run, and I know I should've come about this in a more appropriate way.

*PS: The other scott, " s c o t t" aka "i love kittens" was the other person I was trying to impersonate, and I was doing so because I thought it'd be funny to have the same name as him and play with him at the same time (we're both friends on steam). This goes along with the method of which I got banned for. Anyway, he did NOT know that I was going to be changing my name to his and to mess with him, and he had nothing to do with what I was doing. I just sticked with his name because I wanted to make sure of what I was doing to crash the servers.

**On another side note, I DID try this on other servers after the initial and accidental crash on de_port, and I joined with no problem. What I'm getting at is that it might be something to do with the lonestar mod (Hence what I was trying to help out get a fix for)? Just a heads up to whoever manages the code with it, and hopefully to help get that fixed.

Thanks again for listening.

Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:11767837

Originally Posted by Arreo

So by your recollection that's four times that you crashed the server?

Originally Posted by Sc0tty

Yes sir, 4 times. First was accidental, and the other 3 were on purpose.

I will get your appeal underway. Remember, this is your final chance - so make it count. Anything else you want to add before I put the poll up?

**Sc0tty** · 06-02-10, 07:26 PM

No sir, but one quick question really quick if you don't mind. Will this be my final chance as a result of the situation? Or is it just from the amount of times I've been banned?

Thanks for poll too.