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11 hours ago, DrakoHD said:
I keep on hearing negative things about you from staff that have been here far longer than I have, I was also a witness to when you were sitting in that discord call raiding the Gmod discord for that simple fact I don't think you should be unbanned. I don't think close to enough time has passed where I can see you entering the community again.
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So a picture of me in a discord vc with them automatically makes me guilty? You have any evidence of me encouraging them to actually do it? You don't because I joined that voice call to tell them to knock it off because I had heard what was going on. But sure, assume things that didn't happen that you don't have evidence of.
On top of that, how was I even raiding the discord WHILE I WAS BANNED FROM IT? This is the entire reason for my last ban appeal.... I had nothing to do with that raid because I had no interest in getting myself into childish drama. Hence why that appeal was accepted.
Feel free to catch yourself up on what actually happened:
Ben agreed this made no sense and removed the community ban, but kept the discord ban for the reason I am appealing above.
I'm getting quite sick of all the people posting on here that they "have heard bad things about me" but fail to provide any evidence at all or any credible evidence. How the hell am I supposed to defend myself.
Also its a bit hypocritical of you guys to criticize me for speaking "bad" on gfl, while here I have people I have never met in my entire time in the community coming out trying to tell me what my story was because they heard bad things from other people. I understand you want the mod teams opinion on me but I think it really should be reserved to people who were involved in the incident that actually ended with me getting banned. Alexis and Liloz are the only ones I see fit and of course Joshy, but I guess proceed how you will. I really don't enjoy doing this but you are forcing my hand to correct people.
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16 hours ago, Joshy said:
I'm hearing mixed reviews about you.
The good thing I'm hearing is you have good behaviour in game. That's something I like to hear.
The bad thing I have heard is others claim you talk poorly about us in another community. It's not something I like, but I admit I have no hard evidence of it. If I did, then I'm not sure I'm comfortable with using that as a reason to continue your ban (I don't think it's a solid ban reason), but I can understand why they would be less interested in having you back if it is true.
I don't know too much about you so I will have to try to gather more feedback and align with the team. I do hope some team members will post on here and then you can get a few outstanding items squared away hopefully to help your appeal.
I dont see why you would care what I say in other discords. It's not like all I ever did was just talk crap. I no longer staff for any communities and as a result dont participate a fraction as a much as I used to in their respective discords.
And yes, it's quite hard to say positive things about this community when an ex community rep from gfl, at the time, out of the blue went out of their way to message my old former staff manager for the community I used to staff for, trying to get me demoted for "bad things" I had done here. You can imagine my how pleasently suprised I was to see those, when I hadn't been active here for months and hadn't spoken to anyone from here in the same time. I don't exactly appreciate being witch hunted. That's why I have opted to just not speak at all on your servers for 95% of my time and I will more than likely observe the same behavior in the discord. I enjoyed my months away, don't get me wrong, but I would also like to see what people are saying and suggesting for the ttt servers because it's a disappointing to see the state they are currently in.
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Which platform(s) are you appealing?: Discord
Discord/TS3 username (Add your tag and ID if possible):
Pingu#0002
Why were you banned?: "Bragging about leaks" or however it was phrased.
Why should you be unbanned?
Because I don't care anymore to start arguments with people here, and haven't since I was banned. I've realized how it goes no where. I guess the ban helped me understand that. The only reason I post this is I now want to actually interact with select people from the communities of rot and mc again. I totally understand if you want to put me on some "this is your one and only warning" type deal, but I would appreciate being given a second chance. If I somehow become a problem again I have no problem being banished to the shadow realm for good, however, I can assure you that this won't happen again. That is all.
Have a good day/night wherever you are,
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I'm aware of what Pyros said, but I feel like somebody needs to say this.
This appeal is a chore to read at best and is extremely uninviting to anyone who isn't determined to actually read it all, or even bits of it. I know a majority of people might not read it and only post their opinions, which is fine, but it's clear you spent a good chunk of time writing all of whatever this is out. Regardless of of how you format it, it's always going to be a wall of text, but for everyone else's sake please just remove most, if not all, of the underlining, italicisizing, and bolding from this. This is the equivilent of highlighting the entire textbook when the teacher asks you to mark down the important stuff. I would highly recommend making it not so insane to look at, as people will be much more inclined to actually read what you have to say, which I assume is what you want (The tab insert after every other line is also very off putting). I don't mean to be the english professor turbo loser, but you are actively hurting yourself by doing this.
If y'all decide this isn't "worthy" of being a post on a forums then by all means remove it, just trying to help.
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Being "good" is not all about just having above average aim. A lot of it comes from how you position yourself on the map to react to situations. Anyone can have great aim but if you die to jihads every other round it's pointless. It seems stupid but having the higher ground on somebody if they challenge you is a huge benefit. That's why you'll see good players rarely on the ground floor unless they have to be. Having the higher ground means you get to decide when or when not you want to re-engage a fight with somebody/some people. It also means you aren't out in the open for everyone to shoot at you whenever they feel like it. If someone does shoot you, since there are many less places you can be shot from, you should be able to figure out about where it came from and be very suspicious of anyone who is around that area who might be holding the weapon that did that damage.
Obviously this can't be applied to every map on the rotation but it can for some. There's a lot more to positioning yourself then simply being on a higher ground but it will get you better results regardless.
But to the point of Alpha, there is no shortcut to being able to consistently land good shots. I've personally sunk in around 6000 hours into gmod and about 2200 in CS but I still get slapped around by the real sweats in CS. AimLab can certainly help but you have to be persistant with it. One day of use isn't going to change anything. As someone who has done a good bit of research into how to perfect your aim, what you really want to be trying to improve is your "Tracking." There are AimLab tasks generated specifically for honing this skill and they aren't easy by any means, but if you consistently do those even a little every day you will notice you are getting better. Doing other tasks will certainly help as well but being able to place your cursor around head level is crucially the first step to good aim.
Sidenote for AimLab: Please Please Please if you haven't already sync your GMod sensativity with the AimLab one. To do this I think you go to controls but you can select which game you want the sensativity to come from and GMod is an option so I highly recommend using those. Then obviously set it to the same sens as what you play in GMod. If you did already good on ya, but if not pls do.
Hope I could help and good luck trying to beat the nerds
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I came back to roatation recently solely because I saw some old friends on that I hadn't spoken to in a while. inadvertently I ended up meeting people like you, Kirby and Polo who had shown that despite the server just starting to come back up again that there might be potential for it to actually have a stable community of regulars once again. But it's time and time again that decisions are made by people that you or many other new ttt regulars may never have even heard of that prompts this to happen. As someone who's been in your shoes for situations like this too many times it's a shame. There is way too much of a disconnect between the actual playerbase and the people that moderate the discord / oversee everyone who is apart of the servers. This is why you end up with people getting perma banned from discord or from the community for reasons that in no sense should ever really be permanent. The apathy that is shown so often to just have no hesistation in making commited players disappear is astonishing and I've never seen it anywhere else. Of course, there will always be true bad apples and bad influences in the community, but I think it seems to be a general consensus that this was quite overboard. Granted it was reduced but the principle remains. I should be near the last person to defend this community at all, but the experience on the server and the experience many other places in the community can be quite different. Where ever you decide to go I hope you can enjoy the gamemode for what it is, without the politics, as that's all most of us simply want to do.
See ya around man,
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Here's a few more sweaty tips if you really want to make the most of these quick binds
the command "ttt_quickslot (slot)" when binded automatically swaps you to the given slot when pressed.
Now on it's own it isn't all that useful as you would need to fill your entire keyboard with binds but heres the trick
if you input your normal auto buy command, say for examplebind "KEY" "ttt_order_equipment weapon_ttt_c4"and then append the quickslot command to it so it looks like
bind "KEY" "ttt_order_equipment weapon_ttt_c4; ttt_quickslot 8"(Assuming c4 is normally in slot 8, it's probably not but I dont know the slot off the top of my head) if you press the bind once it buys c4, however, if you press it again it auto switches to it so it's in your hand. So if you want c4 fast you can just mash it twice and have it out instantly.
This works with all other weapons listed, just used c4 as an example (obviously won't work with ttt_order_equiptment binds since those arent physical objects, i mean it would, it just wouldnt do anything on second press) -
13 hours ago, Joshy said:
What I’m seeing so far is that this is related to a community ban
Correct this is about a community ban, but as I said I didn't see any dedicated section to making those kinds of appeals. Maybe I'm blind idk, but since discord was mentioned in the reasoning I figured best here if anywhere.
13 hours ago, Joshy said:I’ll have to look into it further to see what I can do if anything at all.
Thank you.
13 hours ago, Joshy said:For the things in my domain…. the picture i’m seeing does show something that looks like a raid. I’m on my phone right now so posting a picture is hard but can you comment on that for me were you part of a raid or what was going on how did you get involved?
For sure. The tldr is some members from the community in question that I am also apart of decided to troll in the discord for whatever reason. The issue with me is that I was not apart of this, and I already have an existing discord ban in place as linked at the top of my post since May. So my confusion lies in that I don't know how I could have trolled/raided the discord seeing as I've been banned for over a month now without it being uplifted.
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Which platform(s) are you appealing?: Discord
Discord/TS3 username (Add your tag and ID if possible):
Pingu#0004
Why were you banned?: "Discord raiding from another community, trolling, etc
Why should you be unbanned?
Here is the link to my discord appeal from a month ago for those who might not be familiar: https://gflclan.com/forums/topic/73839-pingus-general-muteban-appeal/?tab=comments#comment-343953
I'll start by saying I'm not actually appealing the discord ban, but rather the "Community ban" I received from this. Since there is no clear section for these types of bans, I figured here best. Please move if this isn't the correct section, thank you. I'm appealing this because I fail to see how I can raid the discord, seeing as I have been banned from the discord for over a month now (i.e. I literally cannot join even if I wanted to). I get it, you guys don't like me for whatever your reason may be, but I'm genuinely confused by this one. I fully expect to get instantly denied but in a sense, doing so would only prove you simply wish to cast away the people whose opinions you do not agree with. I have never once been racist to anyone, never have I abused my powers while I was a staff member, never have I gone explicitly out of my way to harass any member of the community. I "act up" a bit here and there but I fail to see why you want me gone so badly and in any way how it could result in a community ban. Hence why I see the only possible reason for my ban as an emotionally charged impulse one. Absolutely I associate myself with the other community in question, but unless I am being banned purely off of being a part of said community, I don't see where the reasoning lies for this. Yesterday when I found out about this ban I didn't have much intention to appeal it seeing as I have never really been treated all that fairly in the past so why bother. But I want to use myself as an example and I'm tired of being complacent with it. If you can truly provide evidence that I raided the discord and uphold this ban, then for sure, keep this in place. But you cannot because I have been banned from the discord since May so there is no feasible way I could have posted or done anything within the discord for over a month now.
If this ban is concerning the day I was on the server with some others, I would love to see the evidence of me "trolling" the game. I was barely on b5 for 15 minutes. I have never encouraged anyone from my community to come here and do anything negative. I can potentially understand the ban on one of the people I was with (bj) as he was truly being a minge, but if this is truly the reasoning behind the community ban then why wasn't everyone who was on with me banned equally across the board? Again, to reiterate, I never encouraged anyone to say anything anywhere. Their actions are entirely based on their own decisions. In fact, I actively discouraged them to say anything in your discord in our own discord while speaking to the others involved because the person they were "targeting" was someone I considered to be a genuine guy who has been nothing but nice and helpful to me in my time here. I guess I feel like I have a target painted on my back for simply being a part of the community? I can already take a stab at who will be posting on this, so the only thing I can request is an actual chance to defend myself, unlike last time. I hope I can have a fair appeal and not have certain people post passive-aggressive responses and then have the post locked before I even have a chance to say something.
I'm also curious as to what the "Etc." in my ban stands for. What other offenses did I commit because the only two I can think of were already in the ban reason?
Anyway, it's up to yall that you decide to do ultimately. I made the decision last month to not even speak on your servers anymore, other than radio binds, simply to avoid this sort of thing from possibly occurring. Any staff who has been on with me for the far and few occasions I have been on can attest to this. I guess I'm just sincerely confused about how I could possibly receive this. I fail to see how I can troll a server badly enough to warrant a community ban without ever saying anything, so please enlighten me.
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"Never shoot yourself in the head, it makes too big of a mess" -avi 2019
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glad i could help you get a ps5 mister shitpost
you may be able to escape gmod but league requires a sacrifice of the soul
good luck though nerd, if ya need me for anything feel free, me and hani will be shilling over at [REDACTED]
hope to see you around discord now and then

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Which platform(s) are you appealing?: discord
Discord/TS3 username (Add your tag and ID if possible):
Pingu#0004
Why were you banned?: "leaking public channels"
Why should you be unbanned?
Because I didn't leak any actual content??>> Please inform me what content I leaked that wasn't publically already known besides the fact that liloz posted on one, which he always does on every round anyways. People are aware manager apps occur even if you decide to keep them hidden... A ban of this sort seems like it would stem from me posting a screenshot of something but all I did was reference a post without stating any of the actual content it contained. I don't think people are going to CSI sherlock holmes what liloz said off of me saying there was excessive use of caps lock in the post and arrows in an image. I'll admit the message was out of place but in no way do I agree it was "leaking private channels" as described. All this shows is that criticism of anything done behind walls is unwelcome which is a dangerous precedent to set. I get it, manager apps don't tend to be peaceful, but they aren't going to get any better if you continue to just silence people who want to speak about it. Again and again, in this community, it's ingrained that everything must be handled behind doors where absolutely no one can see and that's why you have major leaking issues in the first place. I say this not to take the blame away from myself but to point out why it happens all the time. I don't expect some revolution to come from this but to expect everyone to be silent about things they may not agree with seems tyrannical at best. If my intention was to leak details about the application in question I could have just as simply posted and spread screenshots.
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Just want to reiterate that a having a rotation or a static map doesn't dictate what kills or populates a server entirely. If you open the server browser and sort by players, garnet is currently full at 40/40 players while being a 24/7 b5 server with little to no custom addons and a relatively bare pointshop. Whichever way the decision goes it will not have any affect on the player count long term. It's been proven time and time again that a map pool change won't revive a server.
I dont really care either way, but to others point whatever is picked should be final. Constantly changing back and forth does no good either.
One small note that if we do go to rotation an rtv would mean only 3 of the however many maps are chosen will get played at most. So unless yall are incredibly confident every player will want to vote for every map in the pool just make it a static rotation pls.
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i proposed this a while back and while it is kinda niche it adds counter play if nothing else
just slap a command block model on it and call it a day
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would you accept bounties or is this out of the picture
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I'm a second year software engineer just going for a bachelors. I thourougly enjoy programming as it's just problem solving, but discrete math can royally fuck off.
im looking at you inductive proofs and set builder notation
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Website says you have no outgoing bans, havent been banned in 3 days, and this is an exact copy of the last appeal you made...
This can be closed, please don't spam this section in the future.
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Why has nobody said cowboy bebop yet
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Sorry I didn't see this earlier, I was the one who banned you. Since it's a simple rdm and leave ban, I have no problem unbanning you. You will end up still taking both of the slays, but you will be unbanned as of now. Have a great day.
This can be locked thanks.
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I guess I just don't want people @'ing me in discord telling me my opinion of their friend is wrong and giving me a nice paragraph as to why I should completely change my view. Changing this would require the community to act mature about how staff apps are handled and while there are some members who would indeed be respectful, there are a lot more who wouldn't be. Gmod especially is not the place I would look to when looking for mature people on the internet. I know there are benefits as you listed but I also have to look at the downsides and I just don't think the pros outweigh the cons.
Transparency is good, but I think this would be a little too much.
I would have zero problems with the apps being made viewable after they were completed, but not while they are in progress.
Also staff lists exist so players can see who the staff members are on each server, specifically so they don't have to worry about getting slain by people they might not know. The information is out there, they just have to take a little time to find it if they want it.
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Hey Sergeat, I was the one who banned you. You didn't inform anyone that you were leaving and as you were slain just a minute prior I just assumed an RDM and leave. Since you took the time to make an appeal and rdm and leave isn't a major offense I have zero problem unbanning you. You should be able to join now. This can be closed.
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Here's your steamid: STEAM_0:0:103401523
You can find it by searching for a steamid finder and just copy and pasting your profile link into it. There are other ways but this is a pretty standard one.
Every other ban is also for harassment so it seems you banned for consistant trolling.
You were also banned from Hide and Seek. If someone wants to move this to that section that'd be neato burrito.
Have a good day and best of luck.




Actually leaving this time
in Good Byes & Resignations
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crazy how when I actively try to get banned I dont
i give up well played gg