Denied Ban Appeal: Deinen0

IGN: Deinen0
Date/Time: 12/11/2013 Approx. 8:30PM EST
Reason: Abuse of Staff Perms
Ban Length: Permanent-Appeal
Staff Member: DianaB72

Why we should consider your appeal:

I was banned 12/11 for abusing my staff perms, in which I had, in clear conscious. I realize this was not the correct thing to do, however I am only human and I do make mistakes. I also realize the damage this has done to my reputation, as well as letting the entire server down. For this I apologize, and I wish for the opportunity to redeem my actions, and move forward with my MeepLife.

I became staff for the first time during MeepNetworks, on 5/4/2013, approx 3:50AM EST. From there I had moved up the ranks and achieved Overseer(admin), twice. This was due to Crueltygaming removing the Overseer rank, then re-implementing it. During my time there I spent many hours online and in-game, tending to the player's needs, and often dissipating the resentment towards MeepNetworks, and it's co-owner, Crueltygaming. Aside from this, I often pushed for transparency within the staff, and to treat the players fairly, at times outright disobeying ban lists from Crueltygaming, which included former, and current staff.

Early July of this year, it came to light that Crueltygaming had locked Fuzzlr out of his own machines, during this time I had consulted with Fuzzlr on several occasions, and I informed him that he would have the support of the community, and staff should he decide to leave Crueltygaming, and Meepnetworks. Given the task of saving the old spawn, and recruiting a group of loyalists, in order to keep the project hidden until it was ready. In this I staffed many of the staff we know and love today, Sirrr_Pig, Cooleysworld, Nasapc, and more.

During the early days of the new MeepCraft, I spent hours in-game, tending to the user's needs, fielding questions, complaints (which there were a lot of, often calling for the complete resignation of all staff), and concerns. As well as forming the basis of the rules, given we had only a copy from Meepnetwork's skewed vision of them. During this time I was also heavily involved in staffing this server. This lead to an enormous time in-game, at times up to and over 10 hours a day. However, I became overall burnt out from 5 months of staff service, and resigned my adminship.

Quite lost in what to do from then on, as a majority of my time on MeepCraft has been in the staff in some shape, or form, I reapplied and was accepted at the end of October, rising quickly back to Supermod due to my prior experience, and performance.

That all being said, I did abuse my staff perms, something in which I regret, however that cannot change the past. I did the right thing, and willingly resigned my position due to my transgressions. The above is not meant to tout any accomplishments, but to make a case for my plea to not be banned from the server which was been my one and only server, and which I love, and quite arguably would not be here in this shape or form without me. I have given up my staff position, and will never attempt to regain this, however, I wish to have a relatively quiet meeplife back in game.

Thank you for reading this.
Matt Sawyer (Deinen0)

 

The story behind the abuse (10.000 gold blocks):

 

-Witness

I understand hawkeye is great and all, but as numerous staff members have said time and time again, it lacks context. We can of course simply speculate what happened, as has been done above.

In this video, you demonstrate moving the items one stack at a time in creative into a chest. This took approx 1 second give or take per stack, which works out to approx 1 minute per chest. However you do highlight that it took Deinen under 1 minute to fill 2 chests, which doesn't add up for me. I am also aware that a certain key combination allows moving an entire inventory of legitimately obtained items into a chest (2304) with two clicks.

I have tested out the container transaction logging of hawkeye as I was interested as to how it grouped items, and did find that if you were to make a quick transaction as described above, close the chest, quickly reopen it and make another transaction, that the items grouped together. Therefore, we have multiple explanations as to how items came to be in those chests, both of which we lack the context to exclusively approve, however are simultaneously possible through the events that did occur - a simple container transaction.

As for disabling gm 1 shortly after I have no explanation for, however again there is no context for such behavior, there could have been a very legit reason such as cooley or another staff member suggesting he exit it for the moment, or in fact a need for survival mode - Creative makes it damn annoying to access the other items in your inventory that are not in the 1st bar, so disabling it can be very beneficial when sorting items in a chest.

I am a witness to this as I was present and buying my own gold when Deinen bought his at a price of 80, and can confirm that he did indeed buy at minimum a big chunk of it, as he was filling his in inventory at the bank, making it into blocks, and putting it into his /chest. I do agree the events look fishy, but until we are aware of some more minor details we cannot prove Deinen guilty or innocent.

Edit - My post is not intended to completely disprove anything staff may say, I am providing counter arguments so that every angle may be discussed and ensured that the ban is correct.

 

I appreciate the input nasa. I would like to assure you were have tried every angle in the book to try and prove otherwise. Below are some additional proofs of no item pickups within a 50 block radius, also no one invseeing him during that time, and no accessing /chest during that time. Notice there is not movement of where the gold blocks came from either.

 

Deinen, we are all aware of your accomplishments and hard work. Many of your actions have helped to shape Meepcraft into the server that it is today, and we greatly appreciate all of your contributions.

However, despite those past accomplishments, we must deal with the specific actions that led to this ban. As you know, we have very strict responses to item duplication because of the harm that it brings to the server. Item duplication, especially on this scale, can irreparably damage a server's economy. In an effort to make the server a fun place for everyone to play, part of our job as staff is to protect the server from such abuse.

In this case, you used your position as a staff member to do the opposite of what staff members are supposed to do. Instead of making the server a better place, you chose actions that had the potential to cause great harm. You chose personal gain over the good of the players, and that hurts everyone.

After long discussion and debate in which we carefully weighed the benefits and risks of each course of action, we have decided that you will not be allowed to return to the server at this time. This appeal is denied.

 

This was a pretty stupid idea Deinen.