I like the post 🙂
It’s doxing people and posting their addresses among your friends, harassment of real-life relatives of these people, pinging somebody’s 2FA with login attempts because you’re trying to brute into their skype/discord/etc. The feelgood notion of this post is lost to the stream when you realise that this occurred in 2013 and still occurs now. A lot of the players and playerbases on the server are outright malicious to people who slight them and are leagues removed from any benefit of this route of via media mutual discourse shiny happy people resolution.
Although I used some extreme examples (that did, and still do, happen) there are still players that skirt the line enough that they’re barely out of reach of a staff member’s bullet to the back of their head.
I fully believe that there are elements of the staff-team that are absolutely under-equipped to deal with hostile and toxic behaviour, but I won’t discount this as being purposeful or not. There are banned users who were continued to engage in their behaviour because it benefited a staff-members’ nation with the proviso that it’s fine until they get caught. I partially disagree with the Pun point and believe that you absolutely need proof beyond an unreasonable doubt to gun down an administrator, I would absolutely see this as analogous to the bad-but-benefits culture of the server. People stay quiet about le bad things because it benefits them.
A twee post is fine for those with the rationality to modify their behaviour and self-reflect, but for the rest there is a greater cultural shift that is necessary.
Every now and then people get this brainpoisoning cognitohazard notion that being a bastard works and that sucks!!!!!