Logan, on a personal level, I need you to understand something critical before I and the rest of staff can consider giving you your fifth chance: Being part of a community means sharing a mutual respect with the people who run that community. It means that if the community has rules and people to enforce those rules, you need to follow those rules and listen to the people who enforce them. Every time you come back, it just convinces me more and more that you have absolutely no respect for us. While you were here, you frequently disagreed with our decisions, often with hostility, and all you've done while you weren't here is pretty much the exact same thing. You think you should be allowed back despite your frequent meltdowns that make people feel genuinely unsafe, and I will openly include myself as one of those people. You've tried to rally the community against us, attempting to unite them by saying it's somehow wrong for us to revoke submission privileges of banned users. Every time you've ban-evaded (or in this case, outright ban-ignored), you've tried to set your own rules for your return, because you still clearly disagree with us. You've made up a friend to try and apologize on your behalf and I can't even be certain that was the first time you've done so. Barely even a month ago you tried to roleplay as a Polish newbie, going as far as to actually make a topic before thinking better of it and spam-PMing the mods apologizing for it.
If you want to prove you've changed and that you're not that kind of disruption anymore, there's only one thing that you can do, and that's listen to us. If we haven't made it clear before, I'll make it clear now: All that you ever had to do from the beginning was disengage from the TASVideos community for a while. If you had spent the last year and a half doing your own thing instead of protesting your ban on 5-10 different occasions, through 5-10 different methods, every couple of months or so as if it's routine, we probably would've given you a final chance by now. But, of course, you chose to protest. Further untrustworthy apologies, calls to action against us, alt accounts aplenty, most of which having been caught before you were even able to pull another scheme. Even now, with this new public apology, you essentially bashed your way through the front gate, loudly announced that you're back when you shouldn't be, and you've already started to engage with the site again before we had even started talking about what to do with you. In my eyes, these aren't the actions of an apologetic person whatsoever.
The mods/admins had a conversation and came to an agreement on how to handle this situation. We're going to set a date: July 1st, 2028. A little over two years away. Until that date, we don't want to hear from you whatsoever. No more emails, no more alt accounts, no Discord DMs or anything. Nothing towards me, the rest of staff, or the community at large. No comments on TVC, no vagueposting about being banned, nothing that anyone could feasibly report to us as being about us. Disengage from TASVideos as a community completely. As far as we're concerned, that is the best way for you to show remorse and to truly apologize to us in a way that we can trust is true. If you can make it to that date without a word toward, against, or even about us, you can reach out in whatever fashion you so choose and we will allow you back. Otherwise, your ban will be permanent, full stop. And just to be as clear about this as possible: If you are allowed back and we feel it's necessary to ban you again, that ban will also be permanent. We will be as fair as possible with this date and account for the timezone difference as long as it is provably July 1st, 2028 for you.
This will go into effect as soon as it is acknowledged and agreed to in this thread. Failure to do either will also result in a permanent ban.
