Humble Ban Appeal

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We have discussed the issue and come to a consensus decision: We will not, at this time, be lifting the ban on @Millicent, however, we are open to re-evaluating after a period of time. The conditions of this review will be twofold:

  1. @Millicent will provide moderation staff with a list of any currently active Wolfery characters, and user accounts currently under their control
  2. The ban will remain in force until 12 months subsequent to the first instance of ban evasion (8 months hence)

Note that this does not mean the ban expires in 8 months- at that time, we will consider all factors of behavior between then and now, and re-evaluate based on context.

We elect to not lift the ban on basis of the following factors:

  1. At least five noted evasion cases since the initial ban, indicating that the preceding time period does not constitute a display of good behavior
  2. The appearance that the most recent appeal has been made (rather than burning the account) because the account in question is tied to social capital
  3. Contrition is necessary, but not sufficient, and @Millicent has demonstrated contrition before without actually following up on the improvements we need to see
  4. Although there is an appearance of good behavior, that behavior has been interlaced with rule-breaking aside from ban evasion
  5. @Millicent already passed through the standard several chances prior to the initial ban, and subsequent potential second chances on the evasion ban process

We have elected to consider the mitigating factors in the following context:

  1. Community contributions are valued, and may influence interpretation of ambiguous actions, but are not points that can be applied to a score card
  2. The core rule-breaking issues are not only not ambiguous, they are confessed
  3. Ban evasion is its own, distinct rules violation that is evaluated without direct recourse to the validity of the original ban
  4. Even disregarding the evasion, we have not seen the caliber and duration of behavior pattern needed to reconsider the original ban

Thus our conclusion that the consideration of @Millicentā€™s community contributions is reasonably sufficient to back-date the ongoing ban-to-review date as one year from the original infraction, as opposed to one year from the current appeal.

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Thank you and the rest of the moderation team for being willing to consider looking into and re-evaluating this matter in the future, and for wading through and considering all the community feedback.

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I appreciate the time and thought put in to this decision, and shall abide to the letter.

Regarding the first bulletpoint list:

  1. Who and where should I DM these characters/accts to?
  2. July 1st, 2026, is the revisit date, correct?

Finally,

What is the appropriate method to revisit this topic in 8 months? A direct DM? A forum post?

My gratitudes, and well wishes to you and yours.

Thank you kindly.

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Iā€™ll let Fox opine on the second but seems okay to me. The first: Myself or Fox on the forum would do.

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For the sake of the number of calendars involved, July 1 2026 is a good pin date. Direct messages are the correct channel, and we will loop staff in on a group message.

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I do not believe Iā€™m related to this user in particular, but Iā€™d like to further expand on NCOs primarily for other users who may not have been on either end of NCOs before.

Thereā€™s a number of moving parts that have to come together when dealing with a user refusing to honor your request to please stop contacting you and bypassing your Ignore before an NCO is even placed:

  • You have to realize youā€™re talking to the same person
  • You have to get them to admit they are the same person
  • You have to submit a report
  • You have to follow up on your report
  • You have to keep submitting reports for alts that just wonā€™t stop coming as your roleplaying experience is rapidly replaced by the farce of a sudden onset of paranoia making you suss out which of these fine people have the exact same writing style as the individual currently harassing you

By the time an NCO is in place (it could be a week of daily harassment), the user had already proven more times than I have fingers on my right hand they are fine with breaking rules and/or causing damage to your roleplaying environment for whatever personal want they might have. And thatā€™s just the times you were aware of them doing this. Consider now a savvy enough user not to get caught.

Actions that warrant NCOs are harmful and my experience has been negatively affected by such targetted behavior. I wouldnā€™t give somebody with an NCO either my :automobile: toy car OR my :t_rex: dinosaur if I met them at a sandbox, and I donā€™t think you should either. So, calculate their merits accordingly.

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