why i was removed from bn | a tale of absurdity

so around 10 months ago i took a beatmap commission for this beatmap: https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/928457#osu/1939270. i dont want to go into the discussion of commission validity (esp since my own stance has changed since this time), all that really matters is at the time, there were no rules against them. part of the commissioner (commissionee? idk)'s request was to take my time with the set so it would turn out nice. so i did that.



around a month later ephemeral pushed forward this rulechange: https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/t/840838 which made it so "staff members" (which included bn's) were not allowed to take beatmap commissions. i was naturally concerned that this would mean i couldn't finish my map, which would be super sad cuz the commissioner already paid for it, so i asked ephemeral if it would be ok if i still finished and ranked it. here is that whole discussion: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/574135994920599562/615213597877862400/image0.png



so with full permission from ephemeral and no further stipulations aside from "dont pay the bn's that nominate it" i continued along my usual mapping process as requested by the commissioner. this naturally took a while as all my sets do, since i take my time to make them nice to me. so when it was finally ready i waited a little longer for a different set of the same song to go through qualified, and a little longer for a bn that really wanted to rank it to get off probation, and then got the map qualified a couple weeks ago.



after some people questioned the decision on twitter and on the mapthread, eph took another look at the case and determined he made a mistake: https://puu.sh/Efryr/4f9501e2fa.png. after forwarding the situation to the nat, it was for some reason determined that i would either have to let the map die in the graveyard forever, or be banned from bn for one year.



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the reasonings for this new decision have all been completely illogical. the main one is that ephemeral is now under the impression the only reason he gave that permission to begin with was because he thought the map would be ranked pretty quickly. i highly doubt this was the case. in the ss of our convo, i clearly state it had already been some time since i had taken the commission and i gave no suggestion or even impression it would be finished quickly. he also did not request for that to happen, and there was nothing to suggest he wished for that. furthermore, when this twitter drama began, ephemeral was strongly defending his stance, and even used the gap between the permission and the rank as further reason this qualification was being performed in good faith: https://twitter.com/ephemeralis/status/1165957695481888768 it wasn't until 12 hours after he started posting that he had any issue with the time gap. 12 hours that he had to discuss with other people that brought up the time gap in a negative light instead. when i asked him directly why there was this change in his opinion, he said it was because he forgets things. which i can totally understand, it had been a while, but considering how both at the time i asked and at the time i qualified the map he seemingly had no issue with any distance in rank time, i think the far more likely thing that happened is he allowed the map to be finished/ranked because of other reasons, like how there was already a payment made and he hadnt considered that at the time of the announcement, and the time gap is just something other people convinced him of. that time gap was consistently used by other people as a problem before ephemeral joined the train. i was told i should have asked again, despite myself seeing no reason to have to continuously reconfirm something when i already had explicit permission from the writer of the rule that i got at the time he was most vocal and angry about commissions as a whole. i was even told by ascendance that it seemed clear that me waiting so long was me intentionally making a joke of the system?



i talked to as many people as i could about this, both in vc and in pm. almost all standard nat were unavailable during the majority of the discussion that led to my yearlong ban, and disagree with it, but it is apparently not revertible. i tried to appeal to mao and mo (the nat leaders), but mao wanted to stay uninvolved for irl reasons, and mo's convo can be seen here: https://puu.sh/EfrxP/6e8fa96353.txt. mo more or less says that they have to punish me cuz its a rule regardless of if i had permission or not, and that if they dont give me a ridiculous yearlong ban from bn, it looks like they did nothing. in other words, i'm only being punished because staff needs to show other people that they take their rules seriously. he eventually brushed off my questions entirely and said it wasn't negotiable.



again, ephemeral fully admitted it was his fault this situation happened, but instead of just taking the L, staff banned me from bn for a year, for me being transparent and honestly seeking out permission and trying to cooperate. being banned from bn for this was a joke.

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