Knightfall wrote:I don't know you, and I can't even think of who you played on the server. I do remember the last two appeals and about everything that happened, and can't ever imagine a combination of words you could use to come back no matter how much time has passed. When someone is unbanned from a truly permanent ban, it's because the community trusts that they have changed and fixed whatever the problem was before, but the problem was that you were a manipulative person who used other people, who casually threw away friends for such a petty reason.
You can't ever restore trust after something like that, this is the internet and everyone has plenty of time to make their words as deliberate, meaningful, and deceitful as possible. Everyone might deserve a second chance, but yours came and went with the second appeal when after six months you were still trying to lie and manipulate your way out of it instead of owning up to everything. All I will ever see is manipulation now. Maybe I'm the only one thinking like this, but I doubt it.
I feel that I should explain since I've been talking with DI for quite some time. When I say they lost most of their friends here, that's not hyperbole. Every now and again they'd express remorse over losing said friends and show regret for their actions. I really don't believe they're faking it because, well frankly, if they are then the rest of their friends will likely abandon them.
Occam's Razor is often true after all, and it takes far less assumptions to assume that DI is regretful of her actions than it does to assume this is some massive plan, tricking what friends she has left into standing up for her with a nice person attitude. It'd be an insane gamble, and for what? To blow every last bit of what weak credibility she has left away? DI knows full well that if they pulled this shit one more time they're gone. And I think they're fully aware that people like me would give up on them if they tried the same shtick once more.
They want a shot at redemption, not so much an elaborate manipulation plan.
Also no offense to DI but I kinda doubt they have the willpower and abilities to masterfully trick so many people into sticking up for them, only to take a second crack at something stupid that it makes every person hit their head and go "Doh! It is I who have become error now!". We've given a lot of people second chances here. And it's been just a couple of days short to an entire year now. I think one last shot on an extremely provisional basis would be fair. They're not asking to be voided of their crimes, they're asking for forgiveness so they can right their wrongs.
Well let me just quote the late-great Colonel Sanders, who said..."I'm too drunk to taste this chicken."