TOPIC: Revoked

A bit of backstory:

zarpgaming.com/index.php/forum/appeals/1...3-kyber-s-ban-appeal

Kyber, Nickolas_TheGNAR and I (DaAwezomeViking) were in a teamspeak channel. We are all friends and usually dick around and make jokes (nothing against TOU, just as friends). We were all in a jolly mood and Kyber (as a prank) sent me a link to a jumpscare, knowing that I would be fine with it. He then asked Nick multiple times if he could send it to him, because he knows Nick is sometimes iffy about things and reacts in strange ways (sometimes overreacts). After this, he then went to go read the TS3 TOU because Nick said "You can send it to me as long as it doesn't break TOU". About ten to fifteen minutes after Kyber had asked Nick if he could send him the link, he then asked Nick again multiple times. This was after he had gone to check the TOU. He then sent it to Nick, thinking that it wasn't in the TOU, and Kyber ended up receiving a 1 day ban on TS3.

Please also do note that it does not specifically break TS3 TOU, but rather the regular TOU (It still applies on TS3 as Raeker said 2 or 3 times in the previous post, however obviously when checking the TS3 TOU, Kyber was unaware of this fact).


Name - (What is the accused person's name?) Nickolas_TheGNAR
Channel - (Which channel was this in?) Rocket League
Time And Date (CET) - (When did it happen?) 14th May around 17:00 PM CET.
Other Comments - (Anything else you want to add?)
When Kyber sent this link:
WARNING: JUMPSCARE IN SPOILER:


He meant it as a clear joke and did not mean to break TOU. His clear willingness to check the TOU shows this. He has also never been banned on TS3 (The only time he has ever been banned is when Nick is dicking around and bans him for like 1 second or 1 minute as a joke).

Reason - (What rules did the person break?) Nick did not falsely punish Kyber (the ban is apparently valid, but is very harsh and could've been 1 - 3 hours long), but went extremely overboard with his punishment. (I already stated what rules Kyber broke).
Story - (What happened?)
As a continuation of what I wrote before:
Kyber did not mean to break TOU. It was meant as a joke, and I think Nick took it too far. Although I agree that Kyber has had absolutely atrocious and shit behaviour before, he has definitely improved these last few weeks (I spend a lot of my time on ZARP with him. He has really improved. It's also not just me saying it - others are too). I understand there's a lot of beef with Kyber and Nick, and I'm not saying all their actions in the past should be forgotten. I'm saying that to say "Kyber's had a shit attitude on teamspeak and shit lately" is wrong. He has improved.

Now more on Nick. In the previous appeal Nick said:Here Nick says that I "stated my discomfort". What I said was "Nick I think that link Kyber sent me is an IP grabber". I said this in a more high pitched voice than I usually speak and this was after Kyber had been banned (I assumed Nick had just banned him for 1 second like he usually does. At this time I was also not aware that the link had sound, as it doesn't have any sound for me. WelcomingComic2 also said in the last appeal that he had no sound when he clicked on the link. Just to clarify the link I was talking about was the jumpscare link that Kyber had also sent to Nick). After this I also laughed about it being an IP grabber. There was clearly no discomfort shown by me.

This whole topic raises one of my concerns. Nick was clearly lying in the appeal to save his own ass, saying that "Kyber has been banned before" and "viking showed discomfort". Nick has also fucked up before, for example:

zarpgaming.com/index.php/forum/appeals/1...diddler-s-ban-appeal

This was my TS3 ban appeal. I will not go into the full story but basically Nick changed the outcome of the appeal saying that there was "further evidence" which he would not disclose with me. I then brought Aek into the situation and Nick had claimed that he had "lost the evidence". I then made a further appeal:

zarpgaming.com/index.php/forum/appeals/1...viking-s-warn-appeal

This was because Nick had warned me for "Discrimination" after denying my appeal. This was because he had no evidence and I thought he was lying so that he would not get into shit. He then told Longshot to handle the appeal (for some reason) which put Longshot (A TTT admin for those he do not know) into a very awkward position as he was unaware of the situation and it was his first or second appeal. Johnler then had to step in and resolve the situation.

Another example is a screenshot someone sent me:

cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431570372...2976/Nickabooose.png

This shows Nick tping Elmer on PH so that he cannot collect easter eggs.

In this situation I have my screenshots of my Steam chat with Nick:

https://imgur.com/a/Dqf4jGz

This shows his unwillingness to help me, his immaturity, his lack of professionalism and him just not giving a flying fuck about me or what I have to stay. This was absolutely the contrary when I asked Bezzy a similar question (As much as I hate to compare I feel like in this situation it is necessary). Bezzy gave me very constructive feedback. Unfortunately I do not have screenshots of this chat.

This also just happened:

https://imgur.com/a/aNASoW0

Nick banned Elmer and Kyber for saying "knickers". I was not in the channel throughout the entire conversation, but it is the British word for panties (Kyber and I had a discussion with Nick about this yesterday). Elmer said "knickers" (I think he was asking "How is knickers loopholing?", however I'm not entirely sure). After this Kyber then asked "How is knickers loopholing?" and then Nick banned him for loopholing.


Proof - (Any proof (video or screenshot) that clearly shows what happened.)
(These were in the previous appeal):
WARNING: RACISM IN SPOILER:


Who Was In The Channel? - ( People that were in the channel at the time.) Nick, Kyber and I.


Extra notes:

This post probably doesn't make much sense, and it probably looks like I just shit on Nick, but I'm trying to bring to others' attention that I don't think Nick is doing his job too well (I am obviously unaware of what is happening behind the scenes and I don't play much on the servers anymore, especially when he is on). From the outside it does not look like he can handle a LT position and he seems quite unprofessional. He clearly is very emotional and biased about his work, and he bans too much (n TS3). This is all I want to say. Thank you.

Not gonna read because I cba but

I will handle this.

The whole knickers thing can be dependent on the context.


I can agree that this was not handled the best way... or from the user's perspective it seems a bit of a stretch.

You are taking many small mistakes that date back to over a month ago that should have been reported immediately so I can learn from them or just things that action has already been taken for and using them on me purely for the sake of making a report, I'm already talking to Aek to get my side of the story out we'll just have to wait for the outcome.

Nick0GR wrote:
At first they were just small mistakes Nick, but it's been going on long enough. That's why I'm only reporting it now. Mistakes add up and, quite frankly, I've had enough of your shit. You keep lying to cover up and save your own ass.

Nick0GR wrote: Some of these things were already reported sooner, though, so I don't get that argument.

Don't misunderstand me, you and Kyber have had a long history of issues with one another, so Kyber purposely poking the bear in that scenario could only end in trouble. I just believe the ban was too long, and a lot of these situations are legitimate issues that people have had with you, Nick. Regardless of what the outcome is I do think you might need to rethink how you deal with certain issues.

Nick0GR wrote:
A lot of good points have been already mentioned so will not repeat. That is the problem, all you're doing is asking such questions about how to better yourself or how can I improve on this and that but I would like to see you actually taking the advice that has been given to you or at least trying to in all honesty to avoid this kind of stuff happening

I don’t want to say too much because Nick will have the face on with me purely for supporting something against him. I have to agree that Nick doesn’t seem to do his job to the best of his ability and does not seem fit to be a lead team member. I agree with most if not all of the detailed points you have made in this report and quite frankly, a lot of this is pathetic from a lead team member on several servers. The worst thing I think is the unwillingness to help staff and users, which you have shown clearly in the screenshots where he just doesn’t care at all and is being completely blunt, unhelpful and unresponsive in all ways, which is completely unacceptable and the opposite of what he should be doing when providing feedback. Something that literally just happened on discord, Nick sent a message in the staff chat that all TTT staff can see calling me and Ramen out saying we’ve both had shit attitudes (I’m guessing he means for bringing up valid points about him) and that he was bringing us up for demotion in the lead team meeting. But what did we do wrong? This just seems like another way he is trying to shut us up from bringing up his faults and covering up his ass. To add on top of that, he said straight after that he did not want to discuss this on a chat that everybody could see, and as Chienman stated, why would you say it on the public chat in the first place then where everyone could see it, Nick’s defense to this was that we had removed him on steam, but I definitely haven’t so I’m presuming that was one more lie. Let me just fix something here, turns out that Ramen had actually removed Nick on steam, for his own valid reason, and it was just a mix up that Nick thought we both had removed him

Sorry that I said I wasn’t going to say much and then went on and wrote a full essay, my bad


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TLDR: please?

@Eddie wrote: Bringing that up like that in the Discord is just straight up being a bad staff member and a terrible Lead Team Member. Eddie's behaviour has been fine, aside from him saying that he wouldn't punish for swatzikas, and he even apolgised to me about that himself.

As far as Ramen is concerned, the guy has just been getting more comfortable posting on the forums and openly stating his opinion on stuff. That isn't having a bad attitude lol - purposely causing shit in a Discord is, though.

But uhm, that's my opinion on the matter - I'll shut up now.

Raeker wrote: I had no other form of communication with them other than discord, I didn't mean to start anything

Nick0GR wrote:

You didn't mean to start anything, except you posted on an open chat that everyone could read calling them out, saying "your attitude is shit" just because they've been bringing up valid points about you on the forums. Now you're just deflecting it and saying "I didn't mean to" even though you clearly did. This is just another example of you lying your ass off to keep yourself out of shit.

TimeForPug wrote:

Basically Nick messed up quite a few times, and now I've finally decided to say something about him lying and being a hyprocite.

Nick0GR wrote:
Why didn't you just ask them to add you on steam or discord because you needed to talk to them then...

Raeker wrote: I love you so much dude and I don’t even know why

Nick0GR wrote:
Steam? Teamspeak? Private message on Discord? Why public? Why couldn't you go through the extra trouble of messaging them privately for the sake of the staff member. Talking like that might embarrass staff member and maybe he will take quite an offence to that, and then make them leave the staff member because they are not comfortable anymore.

DaAwezomeViking wrote:
Nick if your only form of communication was Discord, which with myself is true, then you could have simply private message me on Discord which is possible. This just seems more like you wanted to intentionally make it as so the other staff could see if I'm being honest.

Nick0GR wrote: That’s actually a terrible excuse, if you had the means of communication through discord then why didn’t you just PM both of us the same paragraph in discord PMs? Instead you posted it in the group chat everyone could see, that was definitely intentional

I'm gonna do just that