Name(s) of the violators
DiscoveryGC Administrators and Moderators
Server Rule(s) Being Broken
Rule Being Broken Wrote:Server Administrators are obliged: To develop and safeguard the health of the Discovery Freelancer community, official server, and forums.
To be fair and treat all players equally independent of their level and faction alignment.
Not to mix server roleplaying with server administration in any way.
Not to ignore any cases of server rule violations that are reported.
Sanction Context or Background
Given the current status of the server community, it's understandable that there would be some people on edge when it comes to server control. Not too long ago, staff was overhauled in order to clean out what remained of a bad leadership. Of course, there would be some slippery stepping stones along the way. It would be the same with any change of government.
A few times, of course, would be reasonable. However, at this point it's become more of an obsession. Administrators and moderators use the powers given to them to do their duty to simply take shots at people they don't like, and defend it with false claims of benevolence. A little bit of lying isn't all that much, right? Of course, if it ended there, I'd just settle for being pissed off. But it didn't. Instead, you all stumbled on another lucky break. Someone was mad about not getting the last laugh, and filed a report based purely on there being no rules regarding a thing. Of course, since it was someone critical of you in the past, you were happy to sanction away, using your server administration to control server roleplay, and when challenged to your face about the shoddy rule upkeep, you remained silent, having realized that having administration powers means that only someone else with administration powers can do something about you. Your power has gone to your head, and you've began ignoring the health of the Discovery Freelancer community.¹²³⁴
But, your little list of crimes doesn't even end there. Taking shots at the Russians is a fantastic game plan, of course. New players that immediately cause problems are normally Slavic, and of course, most people would think "Oh, it's just those Russians again. Probably can't even speak English." But two harassment sanctions, each based off one word, against two long-standing Slavic players? Don't you think your intentions are starting to show through a bit? At least the old team could make their lies convincing half the time. Let's keep the racism to irony poisoned memes, please.
And that doesn't even begin the list of things that were simply overreaches. Many recent sanctions should have been warnings instead, but the sanction report template does say "Just a little summary, please.", so I'll leave those out for now.
In conclusion, the admins have abandoned their duty, and are no longer fit for their position. They have broken the rules that bind them on multiple occasions, and show a grand total of zero signs of remorse for their actions. Unfortunately, I'm not pissed enough to begin naming names, but those of you admins who abide by "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down", please remember that "just following orders" doesn't save people from judgement.
I'll do something about my superiority complex when I cease to be superior.
"Whatever happened to catchin' a good old-fashioned passionate ass-whoopin and gettin' your shoes, coat, and your hat tooken?"
