To fully explain, I recently got the new okdice extension for chrome. BugThug told me about it, and I was experimenting with that chat buttons. We were having a laugh at the idea of a BugButton, and this is what I have my BugButton put in the chat:

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This is the thing that integral banned me for:

(_Ì?_Ì?_Ì?_Ì?_Ì?мÌ?aÌ?Ñ?Ì?iÌ?jÌ?uÌ?aÌ?nÌ?aÌ?_Ì?_Ì?_Ì? () à¸?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?à¹?

Notice how the smoke creates a little smoke wafting up. I typed that in the chat a total of two times ever. Not in the same game. Not even in the same tournament.

How is that spamming?

Integral was not reacting in response to anyone's complaint. No one complained about me doing anything, let alone spamming. He was act vindictively on his own, because he doesn't like my attitude. I have a combative attitude at the tables, but that DOES NOT warrant abusing mod powers for a personal vendetta.

"Spamming", sheesh. No logs. No rules for mods. No policies. Is there no accountability around here?

Well, the ascii art didn't work in the forum post, but those are 1 line ascii arts of a middle finger and of a joint.

When are you going to decide the length of my ban? Just kind of see how you feel about the matter personally?

Is there a policy on how long to ban for spamming? Do you see how what occurred was not in fact at all spamming?

To reiterate, so it's not lost in the clutter:

I put the special character in question in the chat box TWO TIMES EVER IN HISTORY. Not in the same game. Not in the same tournament. Twice ever.

That is really a bannable spamming offense?

The only privilege you have lost is chatting and it has only been about 12 hours.

Ryan: who cares?

That's not a good attitude DasFury.

Let a mod chat ban without valid reasons because of a personal bias. But hey, who cares? It's only chat, it's not for a long time. So who cares if he abuses mod power for personal vendettas?

You're missing the point.

re: length of ban

Generally a chat abuse ban is one day, I will only be on sporadically for the day so I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to unban you, which is why I said most likely less than 24 hours.

If I don't unban you by midnight today, then you can contact another mod (even a gpokr mod if jurgen isn't around) and you can use this post to tell them it's ok to unban you. Though I'll probably be able to unban you before then, so that's not really an issue.

I feel like I addressed your power abuse claim, so I'm not really sure what else I can say that wouldn't just be rehashing what I've already said.

There is no rehashing. You keep intentionally dodging the issue.

You banned me for spam. I did not spam.

Please explain how typing a special character two times ever, not even in the same tournament, is spam.

You cloud the issue bringing up unrelated incidents from many months ago. It's a very simple and straightforward request for explanation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5364542 is essentially what the 'smoke' was made out of, except in your case the 'n's spanned more than a few lines above it.

when I saw it I said, pretty non-confrontational, that you not spam.

You then turned it into an argument, and then finally said ok you wouldn't do it. Then proceeded to make your middle finger ascii art a few times, to which I said nothing, and then finally repeated the same ascii art which you had just agreed you wouldn't do.

I bring up the past issues because it's not like this was just one warning and a ban.

You've been repeated warned about your abusive behaviour, ban evaded even when you were banned, and even when you agree that you won't do something, you continue to do it 2 minutes later.

That's not what I put in the chat. The "smoke" did not render the chat unreadable or unusable in any way. It didn't make the screen look like a bunch of scribbly lines like that. That is not what happened.

It wasn't 2 minutes later. It was more than 10 minutes later, and for that 10 minutes you berated and threatened and argued with me about the ONE AND ONLY TIME I put that symbol in the chat at that point.

And again, the main issue is there is absolutely no doubt that you wouldn't have banned many other players for the same issue. You show leniency with your friends and harshness to your enemies. This whole matter was far from banworthy, but what matters most is not what actually happens in the chat but rather who you have a personal distaste for.

That is fine for doing things like PGE or stabbing me, but it's not appropriate use of mod powers.