DENIED Ban Appeal

[HomoBroCatchADuck]

Name when banned : pete1817
Steam ID : http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198011493100/
Game : Team Fortress-2
Server : Most Darkly Trade Servers and all servers that use SteamRep
Ban Reason : Attempted Spycrab Middleman scam (more information here : http://www.darklygaming.com/forum/threads/attempted-scamming-middleman-impersonation.8685/

State your reason :

Hello darkly community,

Ive come before you, at this time to ask for your forgiveness. Before you decide on anything, please consider the following completely honest explination of my wrongdoing. Recently on TF-2, I've been obsessed with spycrabbing, the excitement of gambling away all that I've got has lead to a rather terrible gambling addiction. Before the attempted scam, I had lost about 95% of my backpack's value spycrabbing and as a result, I decided to attempt to scam Rosefag (the guy who had cleaned me out of most of my backpack) out of some keys and metal, so that I could continue spycrabbing. Since then, I have stopped spycrabbing and have made my earnings merching fairly. However, that does not make up for my utter stupidity and obvious blunder. I sincerely want to apologise to Rosefag, Darkly STD fiend and the entire darkly community for hurting the fragile state of the TF-2 community. No one should ever impersonate an admin (Darkly STD fiend) and no one should ever have to worry about being scammed on TF-2 (rosefag). Im horribly ashamed of what I've done, but the fact is I cannot take back what I've done. I know it's hard to believe, but I honestly feel such remorse for what I have done. I can 100% say for sure that Im glad Rosefag did not lose any of his keys or metal that day. If I had a chance, I would go back to that moment where I was deciding whether MoistGrandpa and I should attemp to spycrab scam Rosefag, and stop myself from doing it. I wish I had that second chance to right all of my wrongdoings, and so Im appealing to you, the darkly community to un-ban me and to give me this chance to prove that I have changed. I once again have to apologise to Rosefag for attempting to scam him, and to Darkly-STD fiend for not complying with his questions during his interview with me. I regretted not complying with STD fiend, and so when Gatherix inturn interviewed me, I answered all his questions truthfully and did not hesistate to answer. I do not blame anyone else for my actions. I fully apologise for all the trouble Ive caused, to whoever I've caused trouble to, regardless of the outcome of the Ban appeal. I just hope, the Darkly community can find it in their hearts to forgive me.

Sincerely, your changed TF-2 gamer, pete1817

 

[Gatherix]

Hi pete1817, thank you for filing the appeal.

I was the banning admin and thus will be handling and evaluating your appeal. As part of this process I will be conducting a one on one interview with you regarding your actions and this appeal. A link to my profile is available below; please add me on Steam, whereupon we will be conducting this interview.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/gatherix

Original appeal, in the event something is edited by the user.

Name when banned : pete1817
Steam ID : http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198011493100/
Game : Team Fortress-2
Server : Most Darkly Trade Servers and all servers that use SteamRep
Ban Reason : Attempted Spycrab Middleman scam (more information here : http://www.darklygaming.com/forum/threads/attempted-scamming-middleman-impersonation.8685/

State your reason :

Hello darkly community,

Ive come before you, at this time to ask for your forgiveness. Before you decide on anything, please consider the following completely honest explination of my wrongdoing. Recently on TF-2, I've been obsessed with spycrabbing, the excitement of gambling away all that I've got has lead to a rather terrible gambling addiction. Before the attempted scam, I had lost about 95% of my backpack's value spycrabbing and as a result, I decided to attempt to scam Rosefag (the guy who had cleaned me out of most of my backpack) out of some keys and metal, so that I could continue spycrabbing. Since then, I have stopped spycrabbing and have made my earnings merching fairly. However, that does not make up for my utter stupidity and obvious blunder. I sincerely want to apologise to Rosefag, Darkly STD fiend and the entire darkly community for hurting the fragile state of the TF-2 community. No one should ever impersonate an admin (Darkly STD fiend) and no one should ever have to worry about being scammed on TF-2 (rosefag). Im horribly ashamed of what I've done, but the fact is I cannot take back what I've done. I know it's hard to believe, but I honestly feel such remorse for what I have done. I can 100% say for sure that Im glad Rosefag did not lose any of his keys or metal that day. If I had a chance, I would go back to that moment where I was deciding whether MoistGrandpa and I should attemp to spycrab scam Rosefag, and stop myself from doing it. I wish I had that second chance to right all of my wrongdoings, and so Im appealing to you, the darkly community to un-ban me and to give me this chance to prove that I have changed. I once again have to apologise to Rosefag for attempting to scam him, and to Darkly-STD fiend for not complying with his questions during his interview with me. I regretted not complying with STD fiend, and so when Gatherix inturn interviewed me, I answered all his questions truthfully and did not hesistate to answer. I do not blame anyone else for my actions. I fully apologise for all the trouble Ive caused, to whoever I've caused trouble to, regardless of the outcome of the Ban appeal. I just hope, the Darkly community can find it in their hearts to forgive me.

Sincerely, your changed TF-2 gamer, pete1817

 

[HomoBroCatchADuck]

Hi pete1817, thank you for filing the appeal.

I was the banning admin and thus will be handling and evaluating your appeal. As part of this process I will be conducting a one on one interview with you regarding your actions and this appeal. A link to my profile is available below; please add me on Steam, whereupon we will be conducting this interview.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/gatherix

Original appeal, in the event something is edited by the user.

Hi Gatherix, thank you for replying so quick. Ive been trying to add you on steam, but it dosent seem to be working. It says "Error adding friend. Please try again." However, every time I try, it gives me the same message.

 

[Gatherix]

Hi Gatherix, thank you for replying so quick. Ive been trying to add you on steam, but it dosent seem to be working. It says "Error adding friend. Please try again." However, every time I try, it gives me the same message.

I will add you on Steam to remedy this. Please verify it is me via SteamRep - I should have the appropriate tag.

 

[HomoBroCatchADuck]

I will add you on Steam to remedy this. Please verify it is me via SteamRep - I should have the appropriate tag.

I still did not get a friend request?

 

[Gatherix]

By engaging in the trading communities of Team Fortress 2, you are expected to withold a level of integrity, honesty, and respect for other players. By not only taking part in but also fabricating and conducting this attempt to scam and deprive a user of their items, you have blatantly disregarded and violated these expectations placed in you. You have demonstrated that you were aware these deceitful actions were of wrongdoing and willingly did so, fully aware of the reprecussions that could befall and yet chose to continue regardless. Furthermore, you chose to execute this by impersonating a trusted community member, a very serious and severe form of deceit causing further damage to other uninvolved players.

I understand that you regret these actions and now properly understand their effects, but considering your intentions, your form of achieving these intentions, and the threshold of trust you have betrayed, you have permanently lost the faith and certitude of the trading community. Appeal denied.