Goonhub
10-04-2024, 11:38 PM
I just want to tack onto this- rather than make a whole new thread- I agree with a lot of this, and I think it's unfortunate. In the end it's your game, you're just people, but so are the players. Leah, it's not a you problem. It's the fact that (to my knowledge) there's an impression that we're not allowed to talk about administration decisions anywhere, or risk getting banned ourselves. You're a lovely person. Everyone is on edge.
The recent RP romance clusterfuck is all this in a nutshell. I'm sorry that Jan felt like she was getting the brunt of it- when I used to admin a large discord server, nothing official went out without several check marks. The real problem was in such close proximity to a well known player being banned, the post contained a lot of examples people associated with them. I'm not making a judgement on whether the examples were right or wrong- not my server, circus, monkeys or cup of tea- but it came across as holding someone up as a bad example. Alone, maybe that's fine, I can understand there was frustration on the admin side but from the player side, we were not privvy to that. We saw a player be banned, us being told nothing at all (not even that they were banned) and then a very long post essentially directed (without name) at them, seemingly justifying everything, which honestly just seemed impolite.
I really do worry about being banned without warning for complaining- outside of official spaces, even, which I can understand you don't want it in official ones- and I think that's indicative of the problem Screaming has brought up.
The recent RP romance clusterfuck is all this in a nutshell. I'm sorry that Jan felt like she was getting the brunt of it- when I used to admin a large discord server, nothing official went out without several check marks. The real problem was in such close proximity to a well known player being banned, the post contained a lot of examples people associated with them. I'm not making a judgement on whether the examples were right or wrong- not my server, circus, monkeys or cup of tea- but it came across as holding someone up as a bad example. Alone, maybe that's fine, I can understand there was frustration on the admin side but from the player side, we were not privvy to that. We saw a player be banned, us being told nothing at all (not even that they were banned) and then a very long post essentially directed (without name) at them, seemingly justifying everything, which honestly just seemed impolite.
I really do worry about being banned without warning for complaining- outside of official spaces, even, which I can understand you don't want it in official ones- and I think that's indicative of the problem Screaming has brought up.