My medic, ghadilli, was banned 2/28 for "Antisemitic comments."
The context: "bad players jew wins"
Not only is it ridiculous to be banned from the platform for such a small context, but RGL Admins whom ghad spoke to aren't certain whether or not that warranted the ban. It's a "maybe this", but no specific direction to lead to understanding. The bans are unclear, and sometimes unjustified, and I think this case is not only unclear but not warranted at all, specified in paragraph 2.
Ghadilli reached out to try to appeal his ban. After a few hours, he was met with a LOGIN BAN. What? How do you go from a ban for saying what he said to a full-on login ban. Is reaching out for an appeal and going through the appeal form some sort of trap? Trying to make sense of it, ghadilli reaches out to with some RGL admins, with no good results. It's a pity to see a full team of admins come up with this. What could warrant a login ban? Is asking for a reason for the ban going to result in a even worse ban? I'm surprised they didn't put him on full probation as well, just like the cember case not too long ago. This case led to ghadilli full quitting the platform entirely. All the work he puts into the team, into TF2 as a whole just got wasted due to this minuscule exchange of hatred towards another player (In this context, would it be considered harassment instead?) due to the large amount of time we as a team spent reasoning with the other team. Not only did we try professionally to handle the situation ourselves during that matchup, we tried to talk with reason and was just met with bad sportsmanship on their end, which resulted in our medic saying that phrase. Ghadilli understands that it could have been mistaken as hurtful, and has stated that. It's not about the ban, but the response of this ban.
I do want to say that Daffodil did help make sense and tried to help ghadilli.
The ways you can get banned on this platform are plentiful, and they ways that the RGL admin team respond with are outright wrong and stupid. Everything this season has led to a thread or to something bigger about the RGL admin team and how they handle things like this. Not saying he should be unbanned or anything, I want to try to tell others about this situation and hope reconsideration occurs. If not, then I waste time writing and I'll fall out with my medic friend ghadilli.
Sigafoo reached out (to me?) and told me all bans on RGL are login bans, and they should log you out when you are banned. This was not the case with ghadilli, and logged in to see the ban the next day. This problem resolution is awful, and resulted in the confusion of not only me and ghadilli, but our entire team. Doesn't matter the outcome, nothing will be changed. Having any criticism of this platform either leads to a ban or is outright ignored by players like me. Since i'm known as that certified eTerrorist™️, anything I do will just be ignored.
I've explained how much I hate the system that RGL uses to handle bans in a professional manner before, but none come close to actually being banned yourself or having a teammate banned like this.