spoilers worse than racism? Options

[HODOR]

So, let me make myself clear first up so there is no confusion, i am not questioning your judgment on my ban for spoilers regarding game of thrones, you guys have rules i broke them, therefore i am banned for the foreseeable future. however i am questioning as to why i have seen warnings given out on the server for racism, and have seen bans lifted after an appeal on the forums for racist language. I am just curious as to the logic behind the two punishments? is that what admins are instructed to do? does this vary between admins? because in my head it just doesn't add up and i cant see how a spoiler is an instant permaban but racist language is a warning, then ban but has a chance to appeal. now don't get me wrong there is a high probability that i am misinformed and what i have stated is incorrect but from a brief look at the ban appeals it seems that you are more likely to be unbanned if you were banned for racism than if you are banned for spoilers, so if spoilers is a permaban with no chance to appeal then shouldn't racism be the same?

SORRY IF I HAVE POSTED THIS IN THE WRONG AREA PLEASE FORGIVE ME

[The Malefic Trou...]

I am still confused as to why you're even comparing these two things.

We do not have to warn you, ever. It's pretty much our good will to do so, but we definitely don't have to - it's your responsibility to read the rules. And it's up to us to decide what punishment should be given. It's as simple as that, our servers, our rules. There's no point in comparing racism to spoiling, it's quite silly actually. So stop that, if you may.

GoT is a popular show, and some people have a lot of responsibilities and can't watch it right after it aired, and people like you come and start GoT coversations instead of going to reddit where there are threads dedicated to discussing recent episodes. You don't have to do it in-game, especially, if you read the thread I linked to carefully, that Monkey has to read through all conversations and had every episode spoiled.

So to summarize: your question is idiotic, sorry, perhaps that's why I can't answer that. And it's up to that specific admin to decide what the punishment should be, and we do not question each other's decisions. So yes, if an admin feels you should get a longer ban for trying to spark a GoT conversation (which would obviously happen given your name) which would surely turn into a spoilfest, it's their decision, they can do that, and they may also feel that dropping a single racist word (let's say: quoting movies) deserves a shorter ban. Does that make one offence better or worse than the other? No. At least in my book.

I can't put this any more simple than that: we decide what the punishment should be, your responsibility as a player is to respect the rules.

There's nothing I can do here and while we're open to discussion, I'd prefer a more reasonable one.

One last thing: warnings are often given for things we consider borderline racist, not quite there, but we usually stop the discussion there to prevent things from getting worse. That's what I meant.