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Regarding your character, Hyun Torgull: We directly observed this character, and witnessed that they not only look like Son Goku, but also displays the behaviors/mannerisms of Son Goku. After convening on this matter, we, the GM team, unanimously concluded that this was a very clear violation of Rule 2a. ("You cannot a play a character from existing media that you didn't create...")

However, this alone is not why we came to the decision to give you a temporary ban.

You, Shou, have an extensive history of causing trouble. You have numerous cases of harassment (over which you've received two short-term bans), a few cases of bug abuse (and in at least one of those, you tried to play dumb when we approached you over it), as well as at least one case of copying a popular media character in the past. (Nero from DMC4, if I recall correctly) By all accounts, this list was enough, in the past, for us to hand you far harsher punishments over. Yet, we have given you the benefit of the doubt on multiple occasions. But there's one running theme that we have noticed over the course of the past few years: You don't seem to learn or change. Despite the numerous warnings we give you, despite the one-day and three-day bans, we keep seeing incidents with your name on them.

Then we see your character, which is an overt case of copying too much from a popular media character. You've spent far more than long enough on SL2 to know this rule, and this isn't your first time doing something like this, either. With this, alongside your notorious history and the constant burn of warnings and bans that you apparently don't learn from over the years, we came to the conclusion that you knew exactly what you're doing and didn't care. This is the kind of behavior we cannot condone, and with all of this in mind, not only were we unable to give you the benefit of the doubt, but we were forced to seek harsher punishments to get the point across. After all, if all those warnings and the two very short bans couldn't change anything over the years, why would they change anything now?

It's because of this behavior and these circumstances that we, the GM team, unanimously decided to hand down a two-week ban over this infraction.

Unfortunately, this behavior is further verified in this very appeal. Out of all the things you could've done in this topic, you:
1. Confirmed that you absolutely knew what you were doing.
2. Tried to pass the character off as a 'homage', despite the blatant parallels to Son Goku. (not to mention that this is definitely not a 'homage')
3. Tried to claim justification from other Goku playbys/'homages'. Putting aside that 'playby + class setup' is not what caused the infraction, it is completely unacceptable to claim a similar case as justification for breaking a rule.

In the end, our conclusions were correct; you knowingly and willingly broke a rule, just like you have constantly done in the past, and then you proceeded to act coy about it. This is where your argument of 'It's too harsh when I didn't hear anything for a year' falls flat: It's not the time that matters, it's the change that occurs overtime. We are very much willing to be lenient to someone who made an honest mistake, or realized that they did wrong and are trying to change for the better. But with you, neither of these are the case. it's not just that you have a history of being unrepentant, it's that you continue to break rules without care and then do whatever you can in order to squeeze by so you can repeat your behavior later. That is absolutely unacceptable, and given your storied background of harassment, allowing this mindset to continue is completely unfair to the other players that have to deal with your antics.

As such, your unban appeal is denied. If anything, I would suggest that you take this time to improve yourself; like we said in the reason provided with your ban message, if we have to discipline you again, we aren't going to be any more lenient than we are now.

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TheRuffKnight, while we do not discourage people from sharing their thoughts, you should not make a post on an appeal that you have no involvement in. You are more than welcome to raise a topic in SL2 General Discussion if you need to raise an opinion regarding a ban.