Hello,
My name is Hades. I am a Head Administrator for the community. Perhaps I can help to explain what happened and why our administrator did what he did. Let's begin by taking a closer look at both sides.
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so apparently there was a ctf event or something going on in the server, and easy money and i were using shop commands that pissed everybody off really badly (hhh and zeus), and the admin finally decided to ban me for half an hour, i believe is what it was.
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admin discretion is NOWHERE to be found in the rules. this ban is invalid, so i'm reporting this user for it.
The event that was going on is as follows:
Server: 35
Time: 7:15PM CDT - 
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Events: Mass spycrab, DTD (Destroy the dispenser), possibly more.
You are free to use the shop and buy items from it. However when an Administrator hosts an event, temporary rules can be put into place to create the structure and set the limitations for the event. If you do not participate in the event and continue to play on the server, you are expected to be courteous to those that are participating. The actions you stated highlighted in
Orange show that both of you were not respecting the rules for the event. You also demonstrated, as shown through the logs, that you both received multiple warnings for event disruption. Communication Dot#9: "Respect staff members and do not harass or deny their requests.". You were in clear violation of this rule and of the temporary rules established when the event was being hosted. Our Staff Guidelines state that those ignoring warnings given by an administrator for event disruption can be banned for no more than 30 minutes at a time. This administrator gave both of you enough prior warnings that you could have avoided this punishment and it did not/does not have to be in the rules for you to comply with what had been asked of you.
The last straw that got me banned was hitting NotAliasing with the pan during the spycrab which for one isnt against the rules, but is actually encouraged.
"Be annoying and expect to get annoyed"
Are you attempting to imply that our staff member hosting an event was annoying to you? This statement of "Be annoying and expect to get annoyed" is not us encouraging you to do so, it is a warning. It is formatted similarly to: " Treat others how you wish to be treated", I fail to see how both are an encouragement to treat others with the level disrespect you both have.
The spycrab for a key was also mentioned to not be a server key, but from the admin himself, therefore making that not a server event.
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A server event is not defined as an event hosted by the Artificial Intelligence code that makes up the server. Server events are defined as an event that effects players currently on the server when hosted by an administrator. We have no plugin installed to host events and all of ours are hosted by our own staff members. I must point out that trying to get off on a technicality will not work.If you have further questions please feel free to make a response, if none is given after 2 days this post will be locked.
Thank you,
Hades
