Will (TauFirewarrior)

Its weak, its craven, especially after the GM team are basically unwilling to enforce basic (written and defined) rules on the main medium of LOTC. You're just parroting their narrative and I am just gunna call it out for what it is. Weak. The ruling on toxicity is vague, undefined. I don't really care if Matt calls anyone a cocksucker, autistic or anything in Discord and the only reason why there was a receiving end of it, was because of leakers trying to show them logs of someone who wasn't even directly insulting them. If there are members of the staff team that can't handle stuff being said behind their backs, they should resign, because they're obviously too weak to hold a position of moderation.

Toxic toxic toxic toxic. A word used as an excuse to get rid of players who some of the staff don't like because they say mean things. Get over yourself, what what if he says less than savory things in Discord? Take anything said from any player at any time you can label it toxic and use it as an excuse to ban someone. In this case the "Toxicity" what got Matt banned was a rant about the GM team. Also, crop out names, I don't recall giving you permission to show my discord, pretty toxic imo.

So you're fine with people being banned for talking smack about a team that has performed somewhat incompetently (oh shoot, best ban me)?

Pond, and Leo if you're reading this. Lets stop making this thread about our conflict. Re-focus on the GM team.

Orc and Elf friends, let us not derrail the thread and instead focus on the core issue of the GM team needing to be put into check when it comes to Discord Moderation. The do's and don'ts. I.e don't ban someone for critique on the GM team even if its just a rant of rage.

I think what Leo has pointed out, there are several instances where the GM's have confirmed the Orcish playerbase broke the rules (i.e banditing on a road directly leading up to a tile on cooldown), Freebuild violations and allowing many Orcs to dress up in Botch Nazi Armour, recite a chant from the Rwandan Genocide and Nazi salute in roleplay. While Veist was banned for making a comment involving a racial slur to someone three weeks ago and it was suddenly brought up at a convenient time.

Dragon has a point, while I've had my vocal disagreements with the Orcish playerbase. It has been the GM team that has allowed various rule violations go unpunished which has spurred them to continue either out of their own ignorance of the rules or the fact the GM team has been too timid to enforce basic rules. Which has lead to an inequality of rule enforcement.

I think we need to stop talking about absolutes when it comes to Discord Moderation, some things need to be moderated on Discord. But its plainly evident to everyone what Matt said should not be considered against the rules. I think the thread was posted in a bit of frustration, but I'd like to point out there has been an inequality on the application of the rules.

Some off server activity needs to he monitored. Absolute Arguments for or Against are really not needed. But it needs to be clearly defined what can and can't be considered against the rules when using a different medium from the Tythus LTD owned platforms.

Its evident that there should be limits to the extent Discords should be moderated. Let me give you an example 1. Linking Logs, or other embarrassing material, private information without consent and doxxing should be bannable or inciting or confirming that existing serve rules have been broken. 2. Talking **** behind someones back but not explicitly inciting harassment or anything like that. Or taking an out of context statement in DM's from weeks prior to try and get someone banned. All that shouldn't be bannable.

Someone just got banned for none of those things. Someone just got banned for harshly and non-constructively critiqued the GM team.

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