Staff Report
Your BYOND Key nuklearcellphoneg
Date of Incident April 5, 2020
Your Character Name? hunter pun thomasten
Their BYOND Key hunk1
Approximate time and date of the incident 1:00 PM CST
Which Staff Protocols (//showthrea...-and-Protocols) were broken Moderator
'The moderators are the police of the server. Their main focus is to ensure that rules are not being broken and that the integrity and fun of the server is maintained. They take ahelps before anyone else.
==Player enjoyment and enforcement of the rules are their top two priorities; however, the rules are NOT unbend-able, and if bending a rule allows the server to have fun, then a moderator can use their own judgement to determine the proper course of action.==
The most important thing is making sure players are enjoying themselves as much as they can be!'
I believe that he unnecessarily enforced a rule when it could have been left well enough alone while having no real impact on the server. Instead, he wanted to set a warning to my ckey, and escalated it to a ban. He insisted that I'd killed myself to intentionally lower the defcon, and I said I have no no understanding of that, and he said that if I read the rules or the Wiki, then I would certainly understand, and I asked him to show me, and he said I was rule lawyering and banned me.
There is a suicide rule and the reasoning given is, you should cryo so as to reopen the job slot. I was, as I often am, a PFC. I was not occupying a limited job slot.
If you go onto the wiki and search suicide, not too many things come up, but one is the CO's page which states:
"Note: Do not commit suicide without a valid RP reason; otherwise you may end with a command job ban. If you are unsure about your RP reason for suicide, you can ahelp any of the staff online to make sure you won't be job banned for it."
If there are situations where a CO may suicide, then I am unsure as to why I am forced to suffer without relent as a lowly rank and file PFC.
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Description of the incident I was badly injured IC, I was escorted to LZ by the female IO with a Japanese last name. I started to get on the DS, but noticed a doc. I walked down to them. They were busy. I ended up doing a couple of maintenance things around the FOB LZ for the moment. After awhile it became apparent I had an untreated broken skull and other broken things, which caused me to go blind and start passing out so I ended up trying to just stand in one place. When it came for my turn to get surgery, the doc, Sybil, was out of anesthesia, so she had to get back on the DS.
When the DS came, I tried but was unsuccessful in getting on- Sybil even noticed me towards the end, tried to drag me on, but the DS doors shut and pushed me out. I waited a very very long time, I had played several rounds before this one, and I really didn't want to wait another 15-20 minutes to get repaired, or possibly never see the DS- so I assumed that I had suffered quite enough( in the logs I saved, it cuts off before all this started, but I have a count of 324 messages with pain in them), and suicided. He PMed me, said this was wrong due to it lowering defcon and implied had I read the rules or wiki, I would understand that. Honestly, I've taken a second look, and neither of those have shown me anything related to that.
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EvidenceHow you would punish the accused I just wanted to use a public forum to vocalize how rules ought to be enforced by the spirit of the law, not the letter of the law.
And surely the defcon via suicide must have gotten memed or something at some point because I have no clue where the you came up with that, and I can't find any official mention of it.