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[jan.antilles]

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.

As I said in the thread: my post was made exclusively for the purpose of reducing player anxiety. I saw comments from you and others when everything happened, expressing uncertainty about what the lines were. My post was made to mirror the one that I previously made about RP Rule 1, and lay out explanations and examples about what behaviors are and aren't a problem. The examples were pulled off the top of my head, both things that happened in the past across the years I've been an admin, or things I made up (edit: except the "those really happened" things like the rolling around farting. Those DID happen.). Calling out ANY player was the exact opposite of my goal. I had no intention to shame anyone or make anyone a "bad example," only to clarify things for players who were confused or alarmed about the guidelines.