[Nate]

Ingame Name: Nate

SteamID: STEAM_0:1:163021079

Who Warned You: Saylor Twift

Reason for warn: Mic Spam

Length of Warn: Expires 10/12/2024

Reason for admins to unwarn:  The last week or two, my mic has been randomly messing up off and on for no rhyme or reason. The only way I've found to fix it is to just turn if off and on a few times and get lucky. (I get paid tomorrow and will be hopefully able to get a new one this weekend)

Yesterday, my mic started messing up again. Saylor gagged me and told me my mic was bad. I was trying to fix it while playing, but I'll admit I was also goofing off with it a little bit. Most people ended up thinking it was funny. I did eventually end up fixing it like I usually can. (I would also like to add that around, the 1:25 mark I did get legitimately spooked and did not mean to mic spam lmao)
Today, I joined the server and Coco immediately said "Was it Nate?" and I asked "Was what me?" I was immediately gagged (warranted tbf lmao), and warned. I feel a warn wasn't very necessary; especially considering it was three words and unintentional. I tried saying this in game, but did not get an answer. We talked a bit more about it in the staff discord.
When I brought up that it was only three words, he said "It was also more than three words today, you did it when the map changed and ungagged you aswell". The only other thing I said was "Is it fixed" (It wasn't). I was reminded of the in game mic check and it did not happen again.

We were discussing it in the staff discord, and he eventually told me to make a forum post to appeal the warn. I posted this screenshot from the rules and said "I understand its under discretion, just wanted to throw it out there that it is a buggy mic!" to which he responded with "Given yesterday's incident and your regular troll behavior I'm not really inclined to believe you had mic issues. Either way, forums appeal is the way to go at this point". I wanted to bring this up in case anybody else wanted to try to make the same point. I understand that some people may think I'm just a troll, but it's mostly only targeted towards my friends. Such as, shit talking them in the discord, rdming them, or ghost kicking them via the relay in the discord. There are times where I messed around a bit too much in serious moments, but I don't ever intentionally try to ruin other people's time on the server; I'm always straight up and honest about trolling and messing around. I have also made it well known to several people in the discord and in game that my mic is just messed up and I am trying to fix it.

All in all, I just don't think the warn was deserved. I know 2 points isn't a huge deal, especially since I don't have any others; but I just feel this was the wrong call here and I was told by Saylor to make an appeal. I understand I joked around for a minute with it yesterday, but I don't think unexpectedly having my mic mess up is a good reason to warn. It would've been much better to be like "Hey your mic is messed up again" and for me to fix it real quick. Since I was reminded about the in game mic test feature, until I can get a new mic, I can and will easily check my mic before I hop on to ensure it's not messed up when I connect.

Have you been warned before: Only jokingly

Other:

[Saylor Twift]

Will start off by saying I had a version of the staff guidelines from March 2024 which isn’t up to date and doesn’t include the bug thing under micspam so that’s on me. Wasn’t really aware you were legitimately having issues with your mic until after the gag/warn and people started talking about it, was under the impression it was intentional after yesterdays incident until the discussion started after today's incident. Might have jumped to conclusions a bit since I’ve seen you post some troll stuff before and have also personally witnessed some troll behavior, was ghost kicked in the discord relay awhile ago and was told it was you, also had you join dinks discord vc and use a soundboard then immediately disconnect/switch channels.  Overall, if you are legitimately having mic issues, I’d be at a +1. Whether or not that’s true is my main concern

[RyanHighman]

I can confirm that over the past few days that nate has had genuine issues with his mic, even in the discord, to the point that he is surprised when we tell him and even curses it out and goes quiet for a few minutes trying to fix it. As long as he tests his mic prior to using it, I see no issue removing this warn. He's been here how long with no issue? He should be given the benefit of the doubt here, especially when there is a permanent fix in the near future. +1

[茶 Tea]

free my boy

[coco]

I came here to say basically what Ryan said. +1!

[Brahma]

As someone who was in a vc with nate and thought he was trolling about the mic thing i can confirm he doesn't know when it's shit or just being white noise, I'm sure he'll try to learn from this mistake and fix the issue(rip my ears). +1 from me

[Jammin]

Can confirm Nate doesn't troll in annoying ways with the mic, usually Nate trolls involve a baseball bat.
+1 given the mic issues, my only legitimate warn was also for micspam because of a bad mic

[BGgamez YT]

I also can confirm that Nate isn't doing this on purpose. He has been having Mic issues for a while. I know Xenon was trying to help him previously

[HardcoreOven]

Over the course of the week I have seen Nate more often and whilst I found his mic blaring funny, I can see why others are upset/annoyed. Anytime he's been told about it he would try to fix almost immediately. I can't deny I have encouraged him talking with the loud mic but not for longer than a few minutes. Every time someone actually got annoyed he would try to fix so I am +1 on warn appeal. I know this is going to be a learning moment for Nate as he isn't doing it on purpose at first imo

[Icey]

Nate is a known troll. Let’s not fall for his lies. -1