CARVERitUP

Thank you! I'll PM you here to see if we can set up a time.

That thread hijack tho.

Back then as well, you don't think it was a gaming forum?

You fail to see how AVO isn't a griefing forum but rather a simple gaming forum at this time. Interesting, considering you designed the website... And you're also ignoring the discussion that an affiliation with a group that has been away from the nerd servers for 2 years shouldn't bee grounds for a ban in the first place, so why would it matter if you think I'm "more of an AVO member" than you?

Awkward, isn't it, that even Team Avolition has its share of pricks who like to get involved in things that they don't have a reason to besides being a dick. Who'd have thought, guys?You obviously failed to see that the apples to oranges comparison was not made by me, but by nerd.nu staff members. They're the ones who referred to my ban as simply "association with avo". Is that not applicable to LRO? Both of us fall under the "association with avo" category.

No problem! I was just making sure that it wasn't misleading at all

No problem! I'm just kind of happy that my situation is seeming to be finally evaluated seriously, without personal feelings and frankly, some lies, being involved.

So...I was just linked this post today, and I'm not going to say much, but I'd like to clarify a couple of things that have been said that I don't agree with here. Back when Team Avolition were griefing our servers, I was one of the moderators helping fight them off. I was demodded because I was a bit too connected to the drama, and I would continue to "feed the trolls" so to speak, because I couldn't shut my big mouth. About 4 months after they had called it quits on our server, I figured "hey, it's all in good fun, they got publicity, even WE got publicity, and it's just a block game" and decided it was maybe a good idea to see what the AVO guys were up to. I friended Storm_Surge on steam just to see if by some inkling he would accept. And he did. I talked to him for a couple of hours about what had happened between them and our servers, and we put it all behind us. I fail to see why this is bad. Holding a grudge is toxic, and it only took me a few minutes to realize that all their "trolling" and "fun" they had with our server had actually helped our server advance. We got free publicity, and there is NO ONE that can deny we had a massive influx of new users that came to stay on our servers simply because they found out about us from AVO videos. I even talk to Allnaturalx regularly (the person who basically founded nerd.nu) and he feels that way as well. After getting to know the "team" over at AVO, I found out they are a group of guys that are EXACTLY LIKE some of the nerd.nu people I knew. And when I became a moderator on their forums, their site was transitioning into a simple gaming forum site. We don't allow talk of grief, DDoS, illegal action, or anything of the nature, and we actually BAN people who don't get that message. Those forums are a gaming community, so again I fail to see why you think it's a bad thing that I am a moderator on that website. In terms of the damage done to the server/community, any of the "unban carver" spam that happened was completely and entirely without my consent, and I was actually the person who tracked them down and told them to STOP doing what they were doing, because (obviously) it was only going to be damaging to a ban appeal I had submitted around the same time. It ended up being a main reason why my appeal was denied. And I noticed you brought up about the time when I made the video which unintentionally revealed the IP of Rainshadow's server, you may remember that I took the video down once I realized what had been done, to reupload it with the IP blacked out. I worked day after day after day to help clean up the server, and I was helped by Lord_Munkee, who some of you might remember. He and Rainshadow both forgave me for my mistake, and I still talk to them both frequently (even earlier today), as they are both my friends. I don't understand why the person who OWNED and OPERATED the server was able to grow from the experience and forgive, but now people who weren't even involved with that private server are now trying to use that as another reason against me. I don't see the right. In terms of how LRO hasn't done any damage to the community, well, I disagree. While I still think of LRO as a friend, the moment she came to the server over 2 and a half years ago, she was talking to one of the staff members, and the first great friend I made on nerd.nu, CarnThorn1. He was the nicest guy I knew at the time, and I was very close to him. She began to "e-date" him, and that's fine. But when the two of them broke off, CarnThorn1 disappeared from the servers, and I haven't spoken to him in 2 years, because he disappeared from everything. I'm just putting that out there, because I still go on Steam every once in a while and look through my friends list just hoping to see if he'd at least been online in the last...week. He was a very good friend of mine. I was with nerd.nu from the start, literally a short while after it had been started, and I was on those servers as a friend for the entirety of my stay. If I had wanted to "grief" the servers, I don't see why I didn't do it in the large amount of time I had before I was even banned. Obviously that was not my goal.

Hey guys, Carver here. Someone just linked me on Skype to a thread here where apparently people are trying to get me unbanned. I'm just letting you know firstly I'm not involved in this, I just learned about it today. While reading the thread I found out some interesting things. I was unaware that LadyRavenOwl, someone who actually was dating an AVO member and actually visited him in real life, is now back as a moderator on nerd.nu, for reasons I do not know. I've been banned for around 2 years from the server simply for talking or "associating" with those guys, and I've made a few unsuccessful ban appeals myself, so I found it kind of hurtful that I was not treated on equal terms. And I have nothing against LRO, I consider her a friend, and I'm glad to see she's found herself back on the staff list, as she always was a very kind moderator. But that's not the point. I'm not here to complain about staff policy. My point for making this thread is that in the topic linked to me, a staff member noted that I hadn't reached out about the issue, and that it was server policy to wait for a ban appeal. So, I thought I'd make one simply to stop what seems to be a minor spam in the forums about my unbanning. I don't want that to happen "on my behalf", so I feel like it's my responsibility to funnel the discussion here so it is not taking up a section of the forums. Honestly, as I said in my past appeal, I do not play Minecraft much if at all anymore, so if you guys really are that on the fence about me, I understand if you wish to keep me banned there. But for 2 years, I've been unable to talk to friends of mine from the servers that I would talk to in mumble, simply because I was banned from the mumble server before I could even figure out other ways to talk to them. And I was extremely disappointed in that fact when I found out that JohnAdams had recently passed away...because I hadn't talked to her in over a year and a half because of my forced separation from nerd.nu, and she had been one of my friends. I didn't even get to share the last year of one of my friends' lives. This is why all I really wanted was to be unbanned from the mumble server, so I can talk to my friends again, and even make new ones. I know that apparently this is a very large issue of discussion right now, so I will obviously be patient. I'm not here to cause problems, I'm here to organize the discussion and hopefully stop the "unban Carver" threads. Take your time, I have no problems waiting for the staff to make an agreed decision, because I don't want any drama to come out of it. Thanks for your consideration, Carver EDIT: As clarification, I would love to be unbanned from the server, seeing as I never did any griefing to warrant a ban, but if you guys are uncomfortable with that, at the very least I would be appealing the mumble ban.