Hi all
It has come to Head Office's attention that user @Ajax has continued to make jokes around tampering in the ISFL general server that cross the line and break the rules around tampering whilst already receiving prior warning regarding such offences.
User Ajax will receive a
- $5,000,000 fine
- 2 Season GM ban
As always, Ajax may contact a member of the Appeals Committee if he would like to appeal this decision.
Looking at precedence for punishment, we have multiple tampering punishments by users that levied the same consequences. FuriousPanda’s case was our most recent tampering case and has the nearly identical punishment, whilst Retrospace's case similarly posted a short comment (except on forums then discord) receiving the same nearly identical punishment. The most similar case that people may remember would have be LB3773’s case and his appeal decision. Originally it was the same near-identical punishment levied here but was reduced to 2m for being a new user. HO considered this decision, but ultimately decided that for a user who had been in the league for twice as long then LB3773 had at the time, had received warnings as part of the entire rookie server warning as well as a personal DM warning from HO only 10 days ago, that it was deserving of the standard precedent. The one change made, is the removal of the third season, after the 2 season gm ban, needing HO approval, as every GM requires approval making it obsolete to include.
We as HO are consistently lenient when users make jokes that toe the line to being considered tampering by our current rules. This is particularly so when it involves new users into the league, who either don’t understand what exactly constitutes tampering or the gravity such a rule has in our league, and a lot of the time its both. However, it comes to a point that when a user consistently re-offends, despite warnings given in many ways over time, we as HO feel that a stand needs to be made to ensure the sanctity of our tampering rule. In order for parity in this league, we cannot continue to sit idly by when there are repeat offenders. Please use this as a reminder for yourself if reading this, what the tampering rules are (can be found below), and the importance to think before making quick comments and jokes that are at risk of breaking them
It has come to Head Office's attention that user @
User Ajax will receive a
- $5,000,000 fine
- 2 Season GM ban
As always, Ajax may contact a member of the Appeals Committee if he would like to appeal this decision.
Looking at precedence for punishment, we have multiple tampering punishments by users that levied the same consequences. FuriousPanda’s case was our most recent tampering case and has the nearly identical punishment, whilst Retrospace's case similarly posted a short comment (except on forums then discord) receiving the same nearly identical punishment. The most similar case that people may remember would have be LB3773’s case and his appeal decision. Originally it was the same near-identical punishment levied here but was reduced to 2m for being a new user. HO considered this decision, but ultimately decided that for a user who had been in the league for twice as long then LB3773 had at the time, had received warnings as part of the entire rookie server warning as well as a personal DM warning from HO only 10 days ago, that it was deserving of the standard precedent. The one change made, is the removal of the third season, after the 2 season gm ban, needing HO approval, as every GM requires approval making it obsolete to include.
We as HO are consistently lenient when users make jokes that toe the line to being considered tampering by our current rules. This is particularly so when it involves new users into the league, who either don’t understand what exactly constitutes tampering or the gravity such a rule has in our league, and a lot of the time its both. However, it comes to a point that when a user consistently re-offends, despite warnings given in many ways over time, we as HO feel that a stand needs to be made to ensure the sanctity of our tampering rule. In order for parity in this league, we cannot continue to sit idly by when there are repeat offenders. Please use this as a reminder for yourself if reading this, what the tampering rules are (can be found below), and the importance to think before making quick comments and jokes that are at risk of breaking them