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I issued two warnings yesterday, and I believe Battons issued the other two. You had a 20% warn at the time from shitposting a few weeks ago.

I mean, you got what was coming to you. You were issued several warnings to stop shitposting, and didn't do so. Had to mute you in discord because of your antics, and I suspect that this carried over onto the forums because of the discord mute.

You have eight total warnings for shitposting on the forums, so I believe some form of punishment is appropriate here.

-1 unban
+0 reduction to a month or two, I'm not convinced that anything is going to change when you get unbanned. Just because this is your first "ban" doesn't entitle you to automatic release.

Discord mute was after the forums posts. Discord had nothing to do with this, the shitposting was detached from anything to do with GCubed unban thread.

I’m not going to change how I interact with people or staff, but I will not shitpost (or rule break in general). I’d be willingly to corroborate this with a probational period; Next few months if I get a warn, then a permanent punishment could be applied.

As for the “first ban” point, I disagree. People have been unbanned for worse conduct, after multiple prior-bans. Shitposting is against the rules, which I accept and why I included a reduction as well. But I don’t think there’s been anyone else perma banned for a first time “shitposting” infraction, who wasn’t unbanned (or reduced) after posting an appeal. You just supported NotRand’s reduction / unban, despite the fact he had just been banned for 3 months. If I’m being honest I can’t help but feel you’re being slightly disingenuous with this because of my confrontational past with you and many other staff. It’s no secret that I disagree with how things are carried out and I make it known. I don’t think that should come to play into this since frankly being confrontational and disagreeing isn’t against the rules. 

You’ve said your thoughts, not going to try to change your mind but I do think you’re going against all other precedents, and being overly critical.

edit: I broke the rules, I’m not denying that or even trying to weasel out of anything. A ban is probably warranted, but I don’t think anything over two weeks is appropriate or even fair