Why not to just close this thread and let it go on Skype or Discord between faction leaders, Admins and pretty much everyone involved. Toxicity is not what we want to show to the new players, and while I believe issue is really hard to solve in here - it's not a way Discovery should go. The main problem why such a situation ever happened is lack of cooperation - not only between players and factions but also on line players-staff. On the other hand, forcing factions into things they openly said they do not want is also a huge mistake.
Do we really want to go back to circle-jerking and childish hate again?