Sorry for the delayed reply as I have been super busy today.
Yes, Bryce received a three day ban. Yes, I was the one that handed it out. No, it wasn't for revenge in relation to the game.
Long story short: I spoke to him privately about something that was said in the game, but not directly game related. James reviewed every PM I sent and gave the 'ok' before I sent them. After my PM, Bryce lost his marbles and wrote a
huge reply where he started threatening me with harassment, reporting me, contacting Armagan, etc ... which was beyond absurd. He also decided to make a post about me attacking his I.Q. in the brainstorming thread (I think that was where it was at). I replied to him (again with the agreement of James) explaining that it wasn't harassment and that his actions were uncalled for, etc. He then reported my PMs and claimed that I was harassing him in the report.
I spoke with Armagan and after he reviewed everything, agreed that I should handle the situation however I thought was best (which at the time was a ban). I cooled off a bit (thanks to Janus), and then tried to settle things by telling Bryce the current situation and my idea of an easy solution: that I would simply drop from the game as we would be unable to play together.
I did some running around that I needed to do for tonight and when I got back, I saw that he had reported my latest PM with more references to harassment.
I temp-banned him for three days with a message that stated that a PM sent by an admin to try and politely correct a problem was not harassment.
Now that I've said all that, I'm pretty upset that anyone would think I would resort to banning someone because of revenge in a game. Reading that was beyond shocking. I know that I'm not perfect and I know that I have been on edge recently because of the werewolf game, but that is no reason to think that I would pull a stunt like that. I'm not the 'power-tripping' type.
Merentha 说:
Check out the gun control thread, he started getting very antagonistic there as well.
Which I apologized for doing, and then explained why. There is more to that issue than me being on edge because of the game, which I stated as well.
Merentha 说:
Anyhow, the PM rule was in place, and I don't know why it was ever relaxed, other than that Narc asked for it to be. We've never had a problem with admins in the game before, don't see why we should now.
The problem had nothing to do with an 'admin' playing in the game as James can vouch for. Not only did I receive the 'ok' from James, but he also made comments that he agreed with me completely. The screw-up here was not mine, and again had nothing to do with me playing the game (beyond Bryce holding a grudge on me because of it). That is why he received a three day ban rather than a perm-ban.
So the revised, simple version: Everything that was said through PM was not directly related to the game. The storyteller agreed with all PMs. Bryce went nuts. Armagan gave the official 'stamp of approval' after reviewing things. I tried a different, fairer aproach rather than banning him. Bryce went nuts again. Rather than a perm-ban he received a temp-ban because of the situation with the game making things extra emotional.
Hope that clears things up,
Narcissus