Crevel

I hope that is not your only take away from what I said.

@Burnsider

I'd like to propose a third option, which I think is more likely. One that you didn't consider going by your two ways of thinking but I'm sure others may have.

3) The player or players who came up with the concept of the Staves (not necessarily those given the staves) were joking around and thought it would be funny to purposefully use fascist symbology for some random new roleplay tradition. Players who made a report about it are concerned about its usage on the server and the message behind it, and are not just looking for a reason to hate an LotC roleplay community through OOC means.

While I do not personally care much about the post itself or the people involved, Moderation allowing this becomes a stepping stone for genuinely bad actors to use these types of roleplay traditions to slowly introduce extremist thought and ideology into OOC communities through positive portrayal of these symbols in a roleplay setting. With the way things currently stand, we would not allow a swastika because of its usage in Nazi Germany despite the symbol having centuries of positive use in Eastern religion and philosophy. With the way you've remarked on your way of thinking, it seems like you'd be willing to accept swastikas in roleplay which I feel that others in Moderation and Administration would heavily disagree with.

Weird

Is this in a reference to the Declaration of Staves post? I saw it and immediately noticed. It doesn't even seem like there was an effort made to hide the allusion to fascism.

There are people on LotC who are innately toxic, it's a behaviour that you can see held by the same people for months and years. While the war rules can provoke irritation, frustration or even anger when it feels restrictive or against people, it is not something that encourages doxxing or anything like that. It's true that the war rules certainly need to be reworked, but no sane person goes "I am irritated by these war rules, I'm going to find x, y and z's personal information and leak it". These people who doxxed would be part of one of the toxic groups that will look to cause trouble no matter what rules are written and no matter what server they are on. The war rules are not the problem. The problem is not permanently removing people from the platform who are known to engage in this type of behaviour or similar harassing behaviours.

Mass effect pls