Staff Report
Your BYOND Key Welden3
Your Character Name? Wilhelm Welden
Their BYOND Key audigzz
Approximate time and date of the incident 7:26 PM January 1st, 2019
Which Staff Protocols (//showthrea...-and-Protocols) were broken Staff code of conduct: Remain professional
Staff protocol #2: "Contact anyone involved and get their side of the story"
Staff protocol #3: "Determine the seriousness of the issue"
Staff protocol #5: "Determine the bare minimum punishment. There's no reason to jump straight to a ban, especially if the incident didn't cause a major disruption to the game"
Description of the incident Late during a round on prison station I was in surgery in medbay. Earlier in the round I had been part of a plot to mutiny against command which was aborted before any action was taken. The commander had discovered this plot and when I awoke from surgery I found myself in the surgery room with the commander and a group of MPs guarding the door. In this moment of waking up I heard the commander spinning the cylinder on his Mateba and believing that he was about to BE me I struck him once with a knife in an attempt to defend myself. I was BEd immediately afterwards.
I was PMd about this series of events by audigzz. Audi asked me to explain to him the events which led to my execution. I did so and answered his questions politely and honestly. At this point, Audi told me that he was going to put a note on my account for improper escalation. At this point I sent him a single message attempting to explain that I believed that my life was in imminent danger and that thus the improper escalation note was unwarranted. At this point he grew irritated with me and despite having told me that he was just going to leave it with a note, he banned me for 3 hours.
EvidenceHow you would punish the accused Over the course of my interaction with him, Audi broke the following protocols:
2: Audi chose to consider my striking the commander improper escalation because the CO told him that he had only intended to brig me, not BE me. He ignored my side of the story which is that in the situation that I found myself in, it was extremely reasonable to believe that the commander intended to BE me, which would thus make striking him self-defense.
3: Audi chose to issue me a 3 hour ban for striking the commander once with a knife. This strike caused the commander to suffer a small amount of brute damage and possibly a cut while he was standing in medbay, costing him perhaps up to 10 seconds of his personal time.
5: Audi, having considered the situation, determined that I should receive a note. The only thing I did between him telling me that I was going to receive a note and him upgrading it to a ban was trying to briefly explain my side of the story with a single message. Thus, we can infer that Audi determined the minimum punishment and chose to exceed it.
Staff code of conduct, remain professional: Given that throughout my conversation with him I endeavored to remain polite, there was nothing in the specific content of this single message that was disrespectful or would warrant a sudden escalation to a ban. I was merely attempting to provide him insight into my thought process. As I broke no rules between his initial judgment and subsequent escalation, we can conclude that Audi escalated my punishment out of personal irritation with me. I believe that since his conversation with me had gone on for quite some time, he had grown impatient and annoyed with me on a personal level and his spontaneous decision to increase my punishment stemmed from this. To allow impatience and irritation to influence his investigations and punishments as a moderator is tremendously unprofessional.
In my opinion, Audi displayed impatience, impulsiveness, and a susceptibility to allowing personal feelings to dictate his decision making, which to me raises serious concerns about his ability to impartially carry out his duties as moderator. In light of his conduct in this situation, I would recommend a serious reevaluation of his status as trial moderator.