Denied Mute Appeal

Hi JAWD, thanks for your appeal. Let me get right into it;

The "facts" you continued to push were incorrect and non-factual. You made 3 posts about the same issue after being told to refrain from re-posting what you originally said. You were given multiple chances but ignored staff instruction, therefore you were muted for 3 days.

The rules you broke are as follows:

CODE OF CONDUCT

4. You must be polite and friendly to all members in the community. You cannot do the following (but not limited to) towards staff and players:

• Harass and/or Disrespect
• Stalk
• Bad mouth
• Abuse
• Spread rumours
• Threaten
• Argue
• Bully
• Troll
• Provoke

FROM FORUMS RULES

ABUSE OF RATINGS
Users are permitted to use ratings to express their thoughts on a post, however it's necessary that players are using this ability correctly. Members who are caught abusing this feature may have their permission revoked. Please see this thread here on rate abuse for further clarification.

DISRESPECT & HARASSMENT
All users are welcome on this forums, at no point should players be disrespected, harassed or singled out. You must be respectful to one another and treat people the way you would like to be treated. Disrespect also includes discrimination, which includes but is not limited to racism, sexism, sexual orientation, beliefs or ethnicity.

COMMON SENSE
Finally, please ensure that you use common sense whilst on our page. If it doesn't feel right don't do it, or if something doesn't look right, please report the content or let the staff team know.

As re-iterated many, many times. Our server is entirely compliant with Minecraft EULA and US law. This is a factual statement which cannot be contested. By stating we are not, you were spreading lies about our server. You also implied that staff are complicit with these supposed "EULA violations", which is considered badmouthing staff. Posts that went against your ideas you prompted marked as "disagree" which is rate abuse.

Hopefully this gives you a bit more insight into your punishment.

Thank you,
Bree

 

Hi Jawd, thanks for your patience. Sorry I did not respond yesterday, I had a busy day.

All members of the community involves staff and server owner. You accused Skyblock of having a " fraudulent business scheme" along with violating EULA in other ways. None of these are true.

You rated every post you disagreed with as "X" or "Rude". This is unnecessary and demeaning when you were incorrect in your statements and other staff were attempting to help the OP. "You shouldn't give out any negative ratings without the post having a need to be negatively rated." - See ratings information In this instance, multiple posts had no reason to be negatively rated.

You may not have individually called out anyone, but you did say that Skyblock mods are complicit in allowing certain "illegal practices" to take place. Which is incorrect. By re-posting the reply we had taken down multiple times you also disrespected the advice of staff and disregarded instruction.

Regardless of whether you think it's dumb or not, it's still a rule that must be adhered to. Don't spread gossip, rumours or try to negatively impact the server by spreading lies.

You are welcome to your opinion, however I will not repeat myself.

Yes, the rules do match up with what you have done wrong. We do not violate EULA and we will not tolerate anyone who continually accuses us of it.

 

Hello again,

The ratings were part of your punishment. They were excessive and unneeded, as I already outlined they broke the "You shouldn't give out any negative ratings without the post having a need to be negatively rated" rule. My opinion is correct because it's the one that aligns with our server rules. It has nothing to do with the so called "staff team personality."

It is clearly implied, not directly stated.

You reposted your posts only by changing the wording slightly. They were new posts yes, but they all said the same thing for the large majority of the post. That is still considered re-posting as you were asked to drop the topic of EULA entirely, which you did not do.

The server is not lying, and I myself am not either. By stating I am, you clearly do not understand the reasoning behind your punishment. I have explained the specific conclusions made that led to your punishment, whether you accept them or not is up to you.

We remove posts that break the rules, it's as simple as that. We don't do this to "earn more money" or hide our supposed "shady business practices". We like to maintain the integrity of our server by having our users follow the rules set forth by the server owner.

Players are welcome to their opinions, but it doesn't make them necessarily right or true in some cases. Actions and words both have consequences depending on what is done or said. That is what we punish for, actions/speech that breaks our rules. Not speech we simply "don't agree with".

We aren't covering up for anything since we have not done anything contrary to EULA or Mojang's rules. This does not have anything to do with living or growing as individuals.



I appreciate your time, however, I do not believe it would be productive to continue with this appeal as you do not exhibit any signs of understanding, accountability or remorse. As your punishment has now expired, I advise you re-read our rules before returning to the community.

Take care,
Bree

 

Thank you for creating an appeal, but unfortunately your appeal has been denied.
We strongly recommend reading through this thread here for any future appeals!
Thread closed and moved to Appeals Archive.