Donator
Name:
'Big Dave'
Steam ID:
STEAM_0:1:44745236
Previous Rank (convert if required):
Moderator
Who demoted you?:
Superadmin Marco, with the consultation of his Server Leadership Team at the time.
Date of demotion?:
I don't remember the exact date, but I believe it was before the 7th of June.
What server were you demoted from?: (SCP-RP UK or SCP-RP USA):
SCP RP UK
What is the case against you?:
I'd like to start off by stating that everything here is from memory, and if I have missed out any infractions - it is purely by coincidence and by accident, not malice.
General Infractions
My first infraction in Staff was a result of me abusing my Staff powers to teleport various friends of mine to what we had built in CI base at the time, a "Femboy Hypnosis Machine". I teleported a few players I knew and a few Staff Members there and forced them to sit in the chair and be "Converted." While this was meant as a joke, I see now at the time it was unprofessional and a clear abuse of the privileges given to me as a Staff Member. I shouldn't have used my powers to elevate myself or take other players agency from them by teleporting them randomly.
Another infraction in Staff was gained because of my again, abuse of Staff powers with my friends. I had built a dupe of a small "invis box" and was placing it around a few players that were my friends. Again, while my intentions were to troll my friends and they had fun, it is no excuse. I shouldn't have been abusing my Staff powers to troll and minge around and should not have elevated myself to think I'm above other users by trapping them in invis boxes.
There was also another scenario that involved myself, where I was demoted from Senior Moderator to Moderator, for acting unreasonably an E-11 Member. The story was, that my Major (Jason M) was kidnapped by Alpha-1 Members for something that in character I had no knowledge of. Out of confusion and stupidity, I decided the best course of action was to shoot the A-1 Members killing them both. I stood around after the event expecting repercussions for my actions, but none came. A few days after, a tribunal IC was made, and I was stripped of all of my character positions. (Security Captain, E-11) and was demoted OOCly in Staff with it counting as a Major infraction. I was removed from all MTFs for two weeks, and blacklisted (Unblacklisted after speaking to Marco which I thanked him for) from Omega-1 and Epsilon-11.
A minor infraction while I was moderator I was given, was for having a dupe placed in D-Block called "big Daves office". This was another stupid mistake and joke I made using Staff powers, which was unprofessional and broke the roleplay of several server members. I apologise deeply for this.
The Major Infraction and final reason for Demotion
It is no secret that the leadership of the Chaos Insurgency and Server Leadership were not on the best of terms at the time. Some mistakes were made on both sides, and looking back on it now, I majorly over reacted to the events and I knew it was for the betterment of the server in the long term.
The CI Leadership and myself made the silly decision of creating a second Discord Server, where we aired our grievances privately. We made some awful comments that were unprofessional and stupid in hindsight.
We came to the decision that, to try and force Server Leadership to bring the cooldown back. Which the logic was, that CI being as strong as it was at the time - we were major providers of content for the server, and we felt neglected. That we would all go on a 3 day strike, threatening our lower down command of temporary demotions if they played on the server. This decision was made in a stupid haste of the moment, but I take full responsibility for it. I've taken actions to try and prove myself to be improving on the server since this. And I can say with full honesty and sincerity, that if I was given more than 24 hours to consider the entire ordeal, I would have rescinded the command. But that is not to try and lessen guilt, it was extremely stupid of us to this as it harmed the server. Luckily we were stopped early by Travis, who I have since spoken to and agreed with him that what he did was a good thing.
I was fully removed from Staff for this, and many others were demoted.
Is this true?:
Everything I have written above this is factual. Anything missed out is either a mistake, or shortened for brevity.
Prior to this demotion, have you ever been demoted?:
As mentioned, I had been demoted from SMOD to MOD.
Have you ever been kicked/warned/banned?:
I have received a few warnings. 2 for RDM, 1 for Fail RP, and a recent one on the 26th june for Fear RP. Which was an accident I took responsibility for.
What is your side of the story?:
My side of the story is pretty transparent. I play this game to have fun, and I always tried to include other players in it. Fair enough, some may describe me as mingey or trollish. But I never tried to harm others in it. I never used my Staff Powers to give myself a combat advantage against other players, I used it comedic or silly ways. Which was unprofessional of me to do so. It was all an effort to just continue being silly and fun, and make others laugh. It backfired really. I never had any ill intent for any of the players I involved in these dumb and quirky schemes I pulled.
As a regular Staff Member, in sits - I always treated players fairly, gave others a chance to speak, prioritised player enjoyment and fairness over everything and was massively active nearly every week unless I couldn't for an IRL reason. I wanted to and still want to contribute to the long term success of the server and acclimate the playerbase, both old and new players to the server by being a friendly face. I still am a friendly face.
The whole Drama and ordeal with CI was just a dumb move made in haste that I regret massively because I feel its sewn an even bigger rift between me and a few other nominal members of the community. Which I would love to reach out and speak to.
Why should you return / what will you change?:
If I am given the opportunity to return, I will change my behaviour and attitude to what it should have always been, treating my Staff Powers as a means to an end when it comes to satisfying the needs of the playerbase, and not a tool to be exploited for jokes and laughs. I'll treat my position with an even greater respect than I did before, and always think of my actions before I take them.
I feel when handling regular sits, complaints and other Staff Members I was fair and easy to deal with. Of course there was an cropping up of an issue every now and then, but I always made the best effort to resolve it for the user in question.
I can be a serious person, when I need to be. And I want to restore peoples faith in me on this server and the playerbase. If this is denied, I will accept that too. And continue to play regardless. I love this server and the potential it has. I'd like to get back in the saddle and assist that future. If I am granted that opportunity.
Thanks.
'Big Dave'
Steam ID:
STEAM_0:1:44745236
Previous Rank (convert if required):
Moderator
Who demoted you?:
Superadmin Marco, with the consultation of his Server Leadership Team at the time.
Date of demotion?:
I don't remember the exact date, but I believe it was before the 7th of June.
What server were you demoted from?: (SCP-RP UK or SCP-RP USA):
SCP RP UK
What is the case against you?:
I'd like to start off by stating that everything here is from memory, and if I have missed out any infractions - it is purely by coincidence and by accident, not malice.
General Infractions
My first infraction in Staff was a result of me abusing my Staff powers to teleport various friends of mine to what we had built in CI base at the time, a "Femboy Hypnosis Machine". I teleported a few players I knew and a few Staff Members there and forced them to sit in the chair and be "Converted." While this was meant as a joke, I see now at the time it was unprofessional and a clear abuse of the privileges given to me as a Staff Member. I shouldn't have used my powers to elevate myself or take other players agency from them by teleporting them randomly.
Another infraction in Staff was gained because of my again, abuse of Staff powers with my friends. I had built a dupe of a small "invis box" and was placing it around a few players that were my friends. Again, while my intentions were to troll my friends and they had fun, it is no excuse. I shouldn't have been abusing my Staff powers to troll and minge around and should not have elevated myself to think I'm above other users by trapping them in invis boxes.
There was also another scenario that involved myself, where I was demoted from Senior Moderator to Moderator, for acting unreasonably an E-11 Member. The story was, that my Major (Jason M) was kidnapped by Alpha-1 Members for something that in character I had no knowledge of. Out of confusion and stupidity, I decided the best course of action was to shoot the A-1 Members killing them both. I stood around after the event expecting repercussions for my actions, but none came. A few days after, a tribunal IC was made, and I was stripped of all of my character positions. (Security Captain, E-11) and was demoted OOCly in Staff with it counting as a Major infraction. I was removed from all MTFs for two weeks, and blacklisted (Unblacklisted after speaking to Marco which I thanked him for) from Omega-1 and Epsilon-11.
A minor infraction while I was moderator I was given, was for having a dupe placed in D-Block called "big Daves office". This was another stupid mistake and joke I made using Staff powers, which was unprofessional and broke the roleplay of several server members. I apologise deeply for this.
The Major Infraction and final reason for Demotion
It is no secret that the leadership of the Chaos Insurgency and Server Leadership were not on the best of terms at the time. Some mistakes were made on both sides, and looking back on it now, I majorly over reacted to the events and I knew it was for the betterment of the server in the long term.
The CI Leadership and myself made the silly decision of creating a second Discord Server, where we aired our grievances privately. We made some awful comments that were unprofessional and stupid in hindsight.
We came to the decision that, to try and force Server Leadership to bring the cooldown back. Which the logic was, that CI being as strong as it was at the time - we were major providers of content for the server, and we felt neglected. That we would all go on a 3 day strike, threatening our lower down command of temporary demotions if they played on the server. This decision was made in a stupid haste of the moment, but I take full responsibility for it. I've taken actions to try and prove myself to be improving on the server since this. And I can say with full honesty and sincerity, that if I was given more than 24 hours to consider the entire ordeal, I would have rescinded the command. But that is not to try and lessen guilt, it was extremely stupid of us to this as it harmed the server. Luckily we were stopped early by Travis, who I have since spoken to and agreed with him that what he did was a good thing.
I was fully removed from Staff for this, and many others were demoted.
Is this true?:
Everything I have written above this is factual. Anything missed out is either a mistake, or shortened for brevity.
Prior to this demotion, have you ever been demoted?:
As mentioned, I had been demoted from SMOD to MOD.
Have you ever been kicked/warned/banned?:
I have received a few warnings. 2 for RDM, 1 for Fail RP, and a recent one on the 26th june for Fear RP. Which was an accident I took responsibility for.
What is your side of the story?:
My side of the story is pretty transparent. I play this game to have fun, and I always tried to include other players in it. Fair enough, some may describe me as mingey or trollish. But I never tried to harm others in it. I never used my Staff Powers to give myself a combat advantage against other players, I used it comedic or silly ways. Which was unprofessional of me to do so. It was all an effort to just continue being silly and fun, and make others laugh. It backfired really. I never had any ill intent for any of the players I involved in these dumb and quirky schemes I pulled.
As a regular Staff Member, in sits - I always treated players fairly, gave others a chance to speak, prioritised player enjoyment and fairness over everything and was massively active nearly every week unless I couldn't for an IRL reason. I wanted to and still want to contribute to the long term success of the server and acclimate the playerbase, both old and new players to the server by being a friendly face. I still am a friendly face.
The whole Drama and ordeal with CI was just a dumb move made in haste that I regret massively because I feel its sewn an even bigger rift between me and a few other nominal members of the community. Which I would love to reach out and speak to.
Why should you return / what will you change?:
If I am given the opportunity to return, I will change my behaviour and attitude to what it should have always been, treating my Staff Powers as a means to an end when it comes to satisfying the needs of the playerbase, and not a tool to be exploited for jokes and laughs. I'll treat my position with an even greater respect than I did before, and always think of my actions before I take them.
I feel when handling regular sits, complaints and other Staff Members I was fair and easy to deal with. Of course there was an cropping up of an issue every now and then, but I always made the best effort to resolve it for the user in question.
I can be a serious person, when I need to be. And I want to restore peoples faith in me on this server and the playerbase. If this is denied, I will accept that too. And continue to play regardless. I love this server and the potential it has. I'd like to get back in the saddle and assist that future. If I am granted that opportunity.
Thanks.
