User came in a few days ago with their full legal name as their username. When asked what their wikidot user account was, they said the same and posted their full email address into the chat. They were advised that putting their full legal name as their account name was a poor choice, they logged off and since changed it.
User returned today and spent the better part of two hours attempting to put their link into the chat, asking multiple times how to put a link into the chat. Their various attempts included doing an .au for their link, an .s for their link, etc. Multiple other users commented that they should just copy and paste their link into the chat, which they continued to not do.
Gee age questioned, and they self-reported to be 22 years old.
After continued floundering around, chatstaff consensus was to ban for 1 year for being indistinguishable from underage. The logs from all of this are lengthy and repetitive, so I will not be presenting them here.
Gee enacted the ban, and I took the appeal. Log of the appeal follows:
2020-07-28 19:50:29 MalycePhones: philosopher30: do you wish to appeal?
2020-07-28 19:51:58 philosopher30: yes
2020-07-28 19:52:21 MalyceGraves: You may proceed at your leisure
2020-07-28 19:55:58 philosopher30: i'm being banned for the wrong reason which is having indistinguishable age by Gee, no behaviour shows age MaylcePhones
2020-07-28 19:56:28 MalyceGraves: Believe it or not, there is behavior that can be pretty good indicators
2020-07-28 19:56:46 philosopher30: which is
2020-07-28 19:57:26 MalyceGraves: The ban is for being indistinguishable from underage. This is a distinction that is important, because the ban isn't for actually BEING underage, but rather giving the impression that you are.
2020-07-28 19:57:44 MalyceGraves: Now, it's not my job to appeal for you.
2020-07-28 19:58:06 philosopher30: it is Gee's job to apeal?
2020-07-28 19:58:15 MalyceGraves: No, it is yours. I will hear your appeal
2020-07-28 19:58:26 MalyceGraves: You may explain to me how my colleague was incorrect in his assessment
2020-07-28 19:58:33 MalyceGraves: then I will decide if your argument has merit
2020-07-28 20:02:20 philosopher30: gladly, at first i was trying to post an article in this chat from a sandbox which did not work, i asked how i post an article which appeared that a link is needed, the only thing i need to do is to post it on forum, after wards i was just saying how are you etc. so therefore i was trying to get a feedback and as well as talking to other users in the chatr
2020-07-28 20:02:58 philosopher30: chat*
2020-07-28 20:03:01 MalyceGraves: I believe you spent the better part of two hours trying to figure out how the copy/paste function works.
2020-07-28 20:03:33 philosopher30: why would i
2020-07-28 20:03:42 philosopher30: i was just typing
2020-07-28 20:03:43 MalyceGraves: I mean, I watched you do this.
2020-07-28 20:03:58 MalyceGraves: Multiple people told you to just paste the link
2020-07-28 20:04:02 philosopher30: but i did the typing my self
2020-07-28 20:04:20 philosopher30: i did paste the link
2020-07-28 20:04:25 MalyceGraves: After two hours.
2020-07-28 20:04:31 philosopher30: but how did they know
2020-07-28 20:04:56 MalyceGraves: Because Gee was here the entire time as well
2020-07-28 20:05:29 MalyceGraves: Your argument isn't doing you any favors.
2020-07-28 20:05:40 philosopher30: for me to type a link i have to go back and forth multiple to type link
2020-07-28 20:06:29 MalyceGraves: Look, friend. At this point I believe the ban is actually a kindness, and I see no reason to disagree with its implementation. Appeal denied.
2020-07-28 20:06:49 MalyceGraves: You are now invited to leave. You may return in 1 year
2020-07-28 20:07:21 philosopher30: i think this unfair
2020-07-28 20:07:39 philosopher30: philosopher30 was kicked by MalyceGraves for: The world is unfair, kid.
User's hostmask is: synirc-a88f2be6.dsl.bell.ca
Appeal denied. Ban is for 1 year.