- grntbg#1685 / colloquially "fssp."
- I was banned by Darth to the best of my knowledge.
- I was banned approximately on the date of 11/14/20.
- I was banned for "advertising i.e. providing outlets to other third party entities."
I recall being banned shortly after saying "try out aedi.app [a great] server" in response to one player indicating that they could not find a building server that wasn't "dead," because TotalFreedom had been offline. "aedi.app" is the informal name of my server, and always has been, having not been referenced as some sort of "third-party outlet."
I believe my ban to be extremely pedantic and shortsighted on behalf of the presiding guild moderator, because never did I provide "an outlet to other third party entities" as directly accessible through Discord, which would usually imply the posting of a link (either to one's website or listing?) or some "outlet" to that "third party entity."
It should not be against the rules to mention the name or address of other servers on the guild, and this sort of policy differs from the standard both in-game and on this forum. Most importantly, it should not be met with a "ban on sight" attitude without prior warning.
From personal observation, the Discord server has always been a notch below the "standard quality" in terms of just punishments being handed out. To the best of my knowledge, the rule for which I had been banned has since been revised to be "clearer" although I can't speak for the truth of that, being unable to directly view them.
According to Amon, my ban could be appealed one week from the original date (paraphrased) however I received contradictory information from the server owner who stated to "file an appeal with evidence of no wrongdoing" therefore I've averaged the two sentences and am posting my appeal on 11/19/20, or five days past the original date.
If my appeal has been filed prematurely, you may ignore it until that date, at which time it may be addressed. If that is not the case, I would request that I be unbanned, justified by the above explanation as my witness.
If you don't wish to read through this post, here is a thread which aptly sums up the stupidity of the rule for which I was banned: https://forum.totalfreedom.me/d/167-change-the-discord-rule