Thundersnow 说:
First off, there are so many mis-characterizations of myself as an Administrator in this thread that are not only laughable, but outright wrong. I won't take the time to comment on them. Instead I let my reputation of being a fair and just Administrator stand on its own merits.
No disrespect, but not everyone here thinks that you are fair or just, if anything you're very harsh and gave out big punishment for something as minor. If someone had a problem with certain words, then that's what the Mute button is for. Unlike teamkilling in which you can't avoid.
Thundersnow 说:
It was a perma-ban because he said it about 30 seconds after I gave the warning, along with someone else.
It doesn't matter when he said it, it's whether he knew the word was offensive or not. Maybe to a Spanish speaking person, calling that individual a Negro doesn't mean they were trying to be racist, but specific. Issuing a
Permanent Ban on someone when you never mentioned which words are offensive or not is already guilty on your part. Are you going to Ban someone for calling me a Yank next time too? Because I personally felt that was a racist intolerant remark.
Thundersnow 说:
The perma-ban was meant to show people that racism/racial slang is not tolerated, and that when an Admin says not to do something, he MEANS IT. In my mind, perma-banning forces the player to come to this BAN/UNBAN forum and explain the situation, defend their actions, and hope that going through this process shows them that defying the administrator will at the very least force them to think on what they did, and spend some 'time-out' time to ponder it so I'm not just banning the same people over and over again.
The Permanent Ban should only be use against someone who already committed several violations in the past, not on someone who had just violated the rule unintentionally, nor it should be use as a demonstration of force. Saying that the ban forces people to come to the forum to explain their action does not justify its merit. That's about as giving someone a Life in Prison with a parole in court on several occasion to explain themselves.
Thundersnow 说:
I literally sat there in spectator mode waiting for someone to 'pop off' another racist term because you guys were arguing the minutia of bi-lingual definitions for the word 'black' for 45 minutes. Around 7 people were banned during that time. And rightfully so.
How is it "Rightfully so"? And how did it even break the Server Rules?
Do not make derogatory remarks to other players or regiments on the server or about players who may not be on the server.
No derogatory remarks about the players was ever made. People were just innocently discussing the context of the word that may or may not have been offensive.
Thundersnow 说:
The whole passionate "He was using it in another context in another language" argument, while nicely put, doesn't even come into this unban argument because:
He said it right after I said no racism/racial slang
He wasn't even there before you issued out the warning, so his excuse was understandable. Nor did you define the definitions for Racism/Racial Slang.
Thundersnow 说:
He didn't preface his word with "HEY EVERYONE I'M GONNA START SPEAKING SPANISH, BUT ONLY ONE WORD, AND COINCIDENCE OF COINCIDENCES, IT WILL HAPPEN BE THE WORD "NEGRO" FROM OUT OF THE FRICKIN BLUE, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE ADMIN JUST SAID IN GIANT PURPLE LETTERS ALL OVER MY SCREEN.
Doesn't matter if he did, Negro isn't an offensive word. He should be able to say it as often as he wants. The only reason why you had him banned in the first place was because you can't stand people joking around while you were trying to be '
serious', so your anger took the best of you.
Thundersnow 说:
Even if he did give that warning, he would have been banned. He was on the US Official Servers.
Even on the US Official Server, the word Negro which means Black in Spanish or means African-American in the United States still doesn't deemed as offensive. You have no right whatsoever to issue a Ban, in this case a
Permanent Ban on that individual.
Thundersnow 说:
White kids are not the only people playing this game.
Obviously neither is a tolerable admin.
Thundersnow 说:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egAMgNY84do