on christmas day (25th December) of 2020, I logged onto nerd.nu. i can't really remember what I did, but I think i stole some food, claimed I was hacking in chat, vandalised someone's house and killed a farm cow. I swiftly got banned from the server and haven't stepped foot on it again. I just turned 10 when I did that, I'm 15 now. I no longer have access to the account, I'm just looking for forgiveness .:D

Kind Regards

Luke

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Notes are eligible for appeal beginning 1 year from the placement date and 6 months from your last appeal of that note (however if you feel a note was added in error you may appeal sooner).

Note appeals will be handled by the staff member who issued them provided they are active and still on staff. If that is not the case the appeal will be handled by the server admin the note pertains to, or a Head admin in any other cases. 

In order to have a note removed it must be demonstrated that the behavior that caused it has changed and is no longer a reflection of your current behavior. 

Should anyone experience issues with the outcome of their note appeal then you are welcome to approach a Head admin. 

The original policy is noted below

• Please do not post more than one appeal.
• Please treat your appeal seriously or it will be denied. Jokes, memes, gifs, and other forms of spam in appeals will result in them being closed.
• Please be civil in your appeal. Appeals that contain trolling, personal attacks, or inflammatory statements will be closed.

Bumping Appeals:

If the banning moderator has not responded to your appeal after 48 hours you may make a post (bump) in your appeal to bring attention to it. At this point (48 hours of no response), any staff member may attempt to contact the banning moderator and if no response is received in 24 hours, said staff member may take over to expedite the appeal.

For bans, if the banning moderator is not available another moderator or admin may handle your appeal. For notes, if the moderator in question is not available, a head admin will take over your appeal.

Further Note Appeal Details:

Similar to ban appeals, once a note has been added to you then you're welcome to appeal this if / when you wish. Where the notes are deemed valid and end up staying on your account for the meantime, please consider allowing a few weeks / months before re-appealing.

Each note appeal will be handled by the staff member who issued them, provided they are active. Otherwise should that staff member be inactive / no longer on staff then if the note directly refers to activity on a specific server then a respective server admin can handle the note appeal. The head admin team will aim to oversee all note appeals issued from inactive / past staff.

For the staff member handling the note appeal, we would ask that you are fair. Please consider the length of time that the note has been active for and whether the note still reflects the behaviour of that individual. Where possible, we do not want to see notes remain for lengthy periods of time.

Should anyone experience issues with the outcome of their note appeal then you are welcome to approach a head admin. Provided the staff member has followed the guideline in the above paragraph then we will support their decision.

Note appeals have been amended In this post.

Posting in Others Appeals:

Please do not post in others appeals.

If you have information as a player (or moderator) that you feel is relevant to the appeal, please contact the banning moderator via message on the forums, in game, or in IRC. If you are unable to contact a moderator or feel that an admin should review the information please contact a head admin or email admins[at]nerd.nu.

Escalating Your Appeal:

Players may request an admin to review their appeal. The banning moderator (or admin) will still have an opportunity to post their collected evidence for your ban. An admin or head admin will review the evidence and decide an outcome of the appeal.

Please note: As there are significantly fewer admins and head admins than there are moderators this may extend the time it takes to resolve your appeal.

Changing Your Name After Being Banned:

Please reply in your appeal if you change your name, as when we unban your original username it won't actually remove your ban, and it'll help us to speed up your ban removal.

Appealing to Hide Your Old Appeal:

Head admins do case-by-case evaluations whether an old appeal could be hidden or not, but not for light reasons. Contact the head admins via private message or other means to discuss this.

Let's say someone were to say "That's gay, why does the park close that early..."  This is a bannable offense. The word "gay", when used in this way, is used in a negative fashion. It implies, in this situation, that they are unhappy that the park closes. They would also be implying that "gay" is a synonym for a negative word, and therefore, when used in this way, it carries negative overtones. It is these overtones that can be offensive to other people because any inherent trait should never have any negativity associated. The same thing can be applied to any racial or ethnic slur also.

There are also racial and homophobic slurs that hold negative connotations in and of themselves. Even though you might not find them offensive, the fact that they are considered slurs can mean that others will