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“From the moment that we sign on after our first application, we acknowledge an unspoken duty—to preserve this experience and to help each other enjoy our time here. To support a stimulating, encouraging, and jolly place—a community that you can grow and develop in.”
— Telanir, Community Guidelines
Everyone who joins LOTC does so with the promise of community, fun, and safety, allowing an environment in which their roleplay can flourish no matter their experience or skill. However, even since its inception, there have been a tragic many who have abused the environment we have strived to build for their own, grossly perverted intentions. Of course, I refer here to the matter of pedophelia which ever-so-frequently rears its ugly head within our community, only for the perpetrator to be unceremoniously cast out for their perverted ways. Now it pains me to mark my return with such loathsome news, but I am compelled to share it out of concern for those who also enjoy this server as well as I.
It has recently come to my attention that another such instance of revelation is necessary in order to preserve the community which the players of this server stand for.
Before I divulge on the topic at hand, I will take careful note to mention that moderation and the administration have closed this investigation and are no longer considering it. This post may otherwise well be deleted because “ban reports shouldn’t be made public”, or because it's a “sensitive topic”, or because it “circumvents staff decisions”. But this is NOT a ban report, nor is it any effort to get the staff to change their minds on the issue, because frankly I don’t believe they will. No, this is an effort to reach out to the community in order to show them the objective truth, so that the matter may at least be taken into their own hands. After all, if staff truly value transparency as much as they say they do, then they should expect that same level of transparency among members of the playerbase as well.
Over the last month, gradual information has been made accessible to me from a number of individuals, including a private ban report against the player “KP”. The evidence is clear, outlining the fact that when he was 23, came after a minor.
For those unaware of who KP is; the ban report refers to them under the name “TangoIsPointless”, or “Happy_Shackles”. Currently they are the nation leader of Oren, and have so far received support from much of the current administration despite their actions.
For the sake of the victim (of whom I’ve received ascent to post these logs) I’ve only provided some of the more relevant screenshots, though the document was also filled with various discussions, at least those that could be obtained from Skype. I would rather not spread the document, that would make it easy for both this post and myself to be taken down for doxxing.
Again, staff have been made aware of this, mind you. This matter has been brought up on multiple occasions but has always been rebuffed. This evidence has already been “reviewed”, and the case has been dropped, not because the logs provided are fake, but because the evidence provided is simply “too old” regardless of how damning it is.
Yet the age of the logs is irrelevant, and the fact of the matter is that a heinous crime against our community’s dignity was nevertheless committed. Whether past or present, the permittance of this act has violated the core principles which the server claims to be built upon, and that simply standing by in idleness further degrades the promises we make to every wide-eyed new player who hopes to become a part of our community.
To Tythus, Telanir, and all those in power who do genuinely want what's best for the server, I say this: by standing by and choosing not to act, you actively destroy the foundations of the community you wish to serve. No, players do not have the power to act, and anything other than us simply pleaing for change is nothing more than idealism. So for now, we can only encourage player initiative within the community, and hope that we may expel those who would commit such atrocities from our ranks with fervor, so that the players, not merely the staff, preserve the same integrity for others that we seek for ourselves. But if we are indeed to be silenced every time we bring genuine pleas for change in our community, then we have truly strayed in every way from what this server was supposed to be.