Your SS14 Username: Commitarson
Your Discord Username (only needed for Discord ban appeals): N/A
Banning Admin's Username: Fluxie
Role Ban, Server Ban, or Discord Ban: N/A
Round ID (if applicable):18236
Reason for Ban: Ordered borg to flirt with the Quartermaster, has done this a few times in the past
What lead up to the ban: I sometimes do little requests to borgs that lead them to have some rp situations, since their lawset tells them its required, things like calling the cap stinky, or in this case, flirt with the a select specific crewmember picked at random, usually a command member. I did this a couple times and gotten positive feedback, never forcing it to get uncomfortable , if the borg just went "i do not know what to say, x told me to flirt you" i would do a little boo IC. I checked the rules on sexual content, to be sure i wouldn't be doing anything against them, and saw nothing on flirting, so i kept at it. Gotten a fair bit of positive feedback, so i did it like, 2 times a week or something, just something to pass the time and create a rp situation.
The other day it was with a quartermaster, who ahelped after the situation, after blinking and walking away uncomfortably,and after i apologised they told me they were aroace. Then i was banned due to going against rule 6-
Why you should be unbanned: The truth is that being told to flirt with someone, when you cant really deny yourself, is uncomfortable at BEST. Also, the borgs in this exchange , were actually kind of dodging the order by dodging being told to state the laws after denying, a red flag to my behaviour i was naively brushing off. This is , above all, a game where we roleplay for fun, and if the roleplay does lead to the opposite of fun, then i really was not adding anything to the server atmosphere. And while i have said i only had positive feedback, the truth is that most likely people that didn't thought it funny either didn't ahelp because it wasn't "worth the trouble" or "didn't want to make a fuss".
The purpose of these "flirt with the HoS" was also never intended to be sexual, but mostly as a out of left field bit, kinda like "hey borg, yell stinky at the cap", but the truth is that being put in that situation by someone watching the two of you is really weird. I didn't think about the situation too hard, specially the part about teens actually playing this game, you tend to forget other people aren't your age on the internet, specially when talking by text.
After thinking about it for a while by myself, its pretty damn clear why its a no-tolerance: No rp is worth the risk opening the gates for someone to get groomed. I , in my 1st draft, talked about my first round doing this going so well, since everyone had a laugh and some borg even having a small date with someone else. But the truth is, if it was someone badly intentioned flirting or being flirted with, i would've caused a lot of future trauma on that someone in the future. Opened the gates for that risk.
I won't repeat this mistake again, and i'd ask for the anti romance rule in rule 6 to be added to rule 5 - no sexual content.
