: Apparently being a nice guy and helping others brings the douchebags out of
: the woodworks for no reason, man. Still, I've tossed my idea around and
: I've been getting some positive feedback, so we're good; we should be
: seeing a few folk playing Halo soon.

: Looking forward to what the end of this/beginning of next month might bring!

There are a few different issues going on here.

1) Hyokin's reply had a certain tone to it and it was negative and not a response to anything directed at you, but...

2) Your response to that was still overdone and not called for.

3) I am not the man in charge of Customs Night. I appreciate the recognition of my effort, but Customs Night is a group effort, as I have said more than once before. In fact, Hyokin expressed to me that he even thinks the admins (me, him, and ShadowoftheVoid) should not put ourselves above the people who show up to almost every outing, and I agree with him to some extent.

4) I don't know how much this was an issue for Hyokin but it stands out more to me the more I think about it, you phrased your previous post like we needed your help and like no one was playing, while responding to my post that indicated those things weren't the case-- more players are always welcome, as is spreading the word about Customs Night and doing other things to get more players, but population has been good lately for the most part.

5) You were banned from Customs Night, and if I remember correctly you were informed of it and the reasons for it at the time. This was, honestly, a long time ago. Hyokin and I had a discussion before the last Customs Night about that and the other extant ban (on Snipe316, for the record), which I thought had both been overturned, but I grudgingly agreed with him that they would remain in force.
The reason is simple: you are an asshole. This is not intended as a confrontation or an insult, this is a statement of shared opinion.
One of the few rules we have at Customs Night is "don't be a jerk", and you broke it. As far as I'm concerned, you can be a jerk or even an asshole and still play, as long as it doesn't show up while you're playing or in the lobby, but it did for you at Customs Night. You acted badly on many occasions,* and if your on-line behavior (especially here on HBO) is anything to go by, you haven't changed. If you do change, I'd be happy to have you at Customs Night.

* if I remember correctly, that included but was not limited to: booting people without good reason, running intentionally bad games, not passing on party lead when asked, being demeaning to other players, and ruining games for whichever team you found yourself on; in short, a textbook example of the sort of player-- about the only sort of player-- that we don't want