[Ban Appeal] DevotedToChrist

Minecraft Username: DevotedToChrist

Have you changed your Minecraft username since being banned? If so, what is your previous name?: No, I have not.

Which of ECC's services are you banned on?: Main Server.

Reason of Ban: Use of a chest finder.

Rule violated:

Section 6 - Hacking, Exploits and Unfair Play
Clause 1 - Hacking and Hacked Clients

• Fly, speed, air build, teleport hacking, or any other types of hacks, are not tolerated. This includes x-ray hacking and x-ray texture packs. Using any unfair means (including glitches, bugs, and exploits) to get into server buildings is also not allowed and is unfair to other users.
• Using any clients, specifically hacked clients, which may allow you to gain unfair advantages as deemed by ECC staff is strictly prohibited.
• Users caught using any client deemed to be a "hacked client", as defined by and at the discretion of the staff, will be banned. There is no excuse for using a hacked client on EcoCityCraft whatsoever.
• Discussion of hacked clients is not allowed - we do not allow them, and therefore we do not discuss them.

Please explain in your own words what the rule(s) means: The rule is explicit in that there shall be no use of any form of x-ray mods/texture packs on EcoCityCraft. I understand this rule and accept full responsibility for my actions.

Reason you feel you think you should be unbanned:


Simply, I want to start over. I want to prove to my former staff that I will never betray them so selfishly again. I want to prove to my friends that I will not give them cause them to ever doubt me again. But most of all, I have so much to prove to myself as to what kind of person I am. If I may, I would like to offer a complete explanation in explaining what I have done, that I may do what I can to reconcile myself for my past actions.

• To be perfectly honest, I believe my actions began with the sense of public embarrassment and disgrace that I found at the loss of my staff membership approximately six months ago in January. What had been my greatest dream to serve as a staff member was entirely lost one afternoon when my brother, having cracked my computer password, asked my cousin via private pm to play with him on another server. While I understand protocol, the coldness that I received from the community, especially during a three day period where I was totally unaware as to what I had done while being permabanned, was something I had difficulty forgetting from the people who I considered to be both friends and family on EcoCityCraft.
• Very shortly after this, I lost both my melon sword and an Eff 7 in the same week. Being that these were not entirely paid off, I was forced to sell my nation of Divinity that had been my sole work for three years in return for a melon sword which I then sold to pay off those debts. That's when things really started to fall apart for me financially.
• From approximately April till today, I lost 3,500,000 in lottery-related losses. I then attempted to start playing SG more frequently to help me financially, but I'd always lose to lotto whatever I gained. From there, things went from bad to worse. Where I was already proficient at SG, I was so desperate to pay for what had become a gambling problem that I attempted one day to try a hacked client, which was discovered in only two hours. The first time being banned was really the beginning of me feeling like I had lost much of my integrity. Every time I got on, I was constantly pm'ed after that first ban for being a scamming hacker and unworthy of my username. To try to help some of the guilt I was feeling, I began trying to give out 10k a day to random players, which ended up helping quite a bit to ease the harsh feelings.
  
• During this time, things did get better as I had quit playing lotto entirely, and I had reached 1.5 mil via sportsbook. Then last month, I foolishly made the worst financial decision I have ever made when I placed my entire savings on a heavily favored soccer match that ended in a draw. After this, desperation once more sunk in as I realized I had forgotten to save some of the money for a loan due the next day, to where I attempted mining with an xray mod. Feeling financially and emotionally bankrupt after finally repaying the loan, I left three weeks ago to go on a much-needed Christian retreat. Upon returning, @Dewsy92 had discovered evidence of my xray in the mining world and I was once more banned. I would like to apologize to him in particular, as both a friend and a personal role-model on the staff team, and thank him for his patient handling of the matter.

To put it frankly, I have totally messed up these past months and am sincerely sorry for all of this, especially to so many of those who have called me a friend and brother. And please, I'd understand if there are those who do not believe a word of this, as I've given so many reasons for many to think that I've become dishonest, but I wrote this incredibly thorough appeal with the hope of easing my unhappy conscience and guilty heart, and to once again hope to be accepted in the eyes of an amazing community that has brought me so much happiness and joy just by being a part of it. To play on EcoCityCraft, to work here, to build here, and especially to help others as a friend has been my greatest pride and joy, and I want so badly to recapture being that kind of person. I give my word that I will do everything within my power to make the best of this appeal, and from henceforth I will once more stand by my duty to do my part in making EcoCityCraft a better place.

Thank you, sincerely,

DevotedToChrist

 

Whoa, JMichael, it seems you've become a red fella since last posting this! Congrats bro!