- In-game name: bricer123
- Date and time of ban? (Include Timezone): Around 18:00 EST. 4 December 2016.
- Which Staff member banned you? (Blank if you do not know) I assume it was Fed.
- Why were you banned? (What Appears on your ban message) Trolling.
- Were you previously jailed or muted? (If yes, say why) Yes, I've been jailed and muted. Jailed, for accidentally TP killing people (I was only jailed for around five minutes because the mods knew it was an accident), and muted for saying something sexual in chat. I've probably been jailed or muted other times, but I forget, as they were a long time ago.
- Why should you be unbanned? I didn't troll anyone. The ban says for trolling and Fed thinks we trolled someone by the name of Doge. However, I never actually trolled Doge. It started when Doge posted his coords in chat, followed by something along the lines of "come to me if you dare." Another donor and I (Frostemort or Coldemort or something like that, sorry, I forget your name) went to his coords to kill him. However, Doge was in the nether, so we had to wait for him to get out. While we were waiting, we killed his dogs (I don't know specifically who killed his dogs. I think I only killed a few, and some other donors besides Whateveremort and I were also there and also killed some of them). Then, Doge came out of the Nether portal and saw that his dogs were missing. I ended up luring him out of his claimed area, and killing him.
Never have I ever heard that "trolling" is against the Sentinel rules. In fact, I have also never seen fair PvP be against the rules. What we did was completely fair. At least, I know what I did was completely fair. I used a /guild home to get closer to Doge's house before I hunted him. This is fair. I travelled at least 1,000 blocks on foot to get to him. This is fair. I killed his dogs for PvP purposes (I didn't want them attacking me mid-fight). This, as far as I know, is still fair. I killed Doge, who had full enchanted diamond armor, with my bow. This is still fair.
Additional Information:
1. I did (kind of) break a rule by staying near his plot when he told me to leave. Doge told me to get out (he actually did use my name, so I had to leave), and I stayed for longer than twenty seconds. However,
a. I was invisible and not doing anything to harm him.
b. I was checking his wall to make sure I didn't grief it. I didn't recall breaking any blocks - not even tall grass (/pvpon didn't work, so I only used my bow in order to not accidentally break any tall grass or crops) - but he accused me of doing so in order to get into his area. I just ran around his base for a little under a minute, unnoticed by him, to make sure that nothing looked out of the ordinary. I honestly forget how I got to his base, so I concluded that I used Frost Walker in order to take advantage of a poorly made side of his wall (there was a big lake right next to his area, and I remember having to cross a big swampy lake, so that adds up).
c. I was out in less than a minute. Sure, it's more than the twenty seconds we're supposed to be out by, but again, I was just checking his wall.
d. He did see someone else and, presumably thinking it was me, tell me to leave once more. However, by then, I was already at my own base.
e. Fed knows that I didn't stay there for more than a couple minutes because I saw him flying around my sheep farm for a couple seconds, then disappear.
2. I have trolled other users countless times before the update to 1.10. This trolling would include disguising as a burning squid, claiming to be some sort of god or something, followed with jeff (I think it was jeff, it may have been illum. It's been a while since we did that.) disguising as a Godzilla magmacube. What we did was harmless, but it was our idea of fun, semi-trolling. The members who we trolled were also having fun. However, this "trolling" never got too far out of hand. What we did was harmless, and nobody ever told us not to do it.
3. So, I proved earlier that I didn't technically troll anyone and what I did was fair PvP. However, I also may have been banned for some form of bullying, and if so, then I'd like to also prove that I didn't bully anyone. It could be argued that, yes, a large group of SM+ members went over to kill Doge and his many dogs. However, this isn't bullying: allow me to remind you that Doge actually posted his coords in general chat and said a message along the lines of "come here if you dare." I took this as a challenge, and I wanted to fight someone.
4. I won't lie, I enjoyed killing his dogs. But again, why risk dogs attacking me when I attacked their owner? And I don't think killing dogs has ever been against the rules.
5. I was never actually given the specifics of my ban. I was just banned for "trolling." I was hoping around my little base, and then I got the ban message. However, I don't actually know who I trolled (do remember that I just finished proving that I didn't even troll anyone - it was just fair PvP). So if I wasn't banned because I "trolled" Doge, then please let me know, so I can clear up any other issues.
Thank you, in advance, for reading over my appeal. I look forward to your response.
