Hello Lokans. I am ringo and am appealing a toxicity ban from 2020. I was banned for general toxicity towards the community and sporadically evaded on accounts up to May of last year. During the time period leading up to and after my ban, I acted in a extremely toxic manner towards many members of Loka and was generally completely self absorbed and driven by ego. I also associated with incredibly undesirable former members of the community, namely Arvein n a couple of others I no longer talk to. I would like to have a chance to apologize to the community and also ask for a last chance having spent a couple years away from the community.
During my time on Loka, and later the time period which I was ban evading, I had a mindset of focusing on 'winning' Loka over anything else, and viewed repeated failures as a failure of my own will and character. I had became overly absorbed in a hypercompetitive whim and treated others incredibly disrespectfully, often attacking them on a personal level, and tried to be as hurtful as I could without being banned. I have tried to make amends with several members of the community since then. I have matured since my ban especially, and new life experiences outside of the game made me realize what a draining person I was being online. I thought that this bizzare, hyper toxic, internet 'general ringo' persona meant I could act as I pleased towards others without consequences. In reality, I was just being an offputting creep.
I would like to also apologize to the Loka staff and guardians as I wasted a ton of their time chasing down my alts on discord and ingame. I was very brazen in also demonstrating to new recruits and alliance members how to evade and fostering a negative culture within several alliances that promoted rule breaking. I should also apologize to many who I repeatedly bullied and harrassed, namely Ob, Arc, Kaph, and Foxy. I reget what I said and did to them and others. I'd also like to apologize to any guardians or staff who caught any flak for banning my alts or theres, who were just volunteering their time on loka and did not deserve any harassment.
My main focus online since has been community building. After most of my group left Loka for other games, we began to focus on meeting new people, new servers, and new groups. This long journey led me finding personal relationships that you form online to be much more fulfilling then focusing on deriding others. I believe that these new communities and groups show evidence of my ability to change and be a positive mentor. Alot of the people who I was the most toxic to for being my self-perceived enemies, like braces, are now my longtime friends. I hope that the damage I caused has been healed with time and I can come back with a more mature community building perspective and at the very least help some new players and be a good influence.
Ideally I would like the chance to prove to many of you that I am no longer the person I once was and hope to do interesting new projects with many new and old friends from Loka and elsewhere. Thank you for your time.
During my time on Loka, and later the time period which I was ban evading, I had a mindset of focusing on 'winning' Loka over anything else, and viewed repeated failures as a failure of my own will and character. I had became overly absorbed in a hypercompetitive whim and treated others incredibly disrespectfully, often attacking them on a personal level, and tried to be as hurtful as I could without being banned. I have tried to make amends with several members of the community since then. I have matured since my ban especially, and new life experiences outside of the game made me realize what a draining person I was being online. I thought that this bizzare, hyper toxic, internet 'general ringo' persona meant I could act as I pleased towards others without consequences. In reality, I was just being an offputting creep.
I would like to also apologize to the Loka staff and guardians as I wasted a ton of their time chasing down my alts on discord and ingame. I was very brazen in also demonstrating to new recruits and alliance members how to evade and fostering a negative culture within several alliances that promoted rule breaking. I should also apologize to many who I repeatedly bullied and harrassed, namely Ob, Arc, Kaph, and Foxy. I reget what I said and did to them and others. I'd also like to apologize to any guardians or staff who caught any flak for banning my alts or theres, who were just volunteering their time on loka and did not deserve any harassment.
My main focus online since has been community building. After most of my group left Loka for other games, we began to focus on meeting new people, new servers, and new groups. This long journey led me finding personal relationships that you form online to be much more fulfilling then focusing on deriding others. I believe that these new communities and groups show evidence of my ability to change and be a positive mentor. Alot of the people who I was the most toxic to for being my self-perceived enemies, like braces, are now my longtime friends. I hope that the damage I caused has been healed with time and I can come back with a more mature community building perspective and at the very least help some new players and be a good influence.
Ideally I would like the chance to prove to many of you that I am no longer the person I once was and hope to do interesting new projects with many new and old friends from Loka and elsewhere. Thank you for your time.
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