To those involved in the Freeport 1 Witch Hunt

[Zelot]

I thought long and hard before making this post, as I watched the events playing out on the forums. I have no characters that would really be involved, so I can't take part in an in-rp way, but I would feel disappointed in myself as a person, a moderator and a member of this community if I did not speak up.

Dakun has his short and well published history here on Disco, he and his associates have seemed to cause problems where ever they were. Fair enough. We in this community pleaded with him to change his ways, to come around to our way of rping, to respect the way we do things here. Don't spam caps, don't go around trying to start fights, stick with the rp. Yes, we as a community asked him to do all these things, as we have asked others in the past. To change their style of play, to come around to our way of thinking, because of course, we were here first, this is our server. Our community.

So what happens, Dakun decides to do what we asked of him, he got involved in factions, he has tried to explore the non pvp rp on the server. What have we given him in return? Upon his first, small perceived mistake, there is no redemption for him in the eyes of almost all of those who have posted. A minor offense has resulted in calls from people and factions only mildly involved to have him removed from this unofficial position of responsibility for a Freeport. Even after attempting to fix the mistake, after accepting the help of other members of the community to solve the situation, after all that, the demands that he be removed continue.

Zero room for negotiation, zero room for equivocation, zero room for anything.

I have never been a Dakun booster, but I have to say, today I feel for him. I also feel particularly disappointed to be a member of this community today. Ask yourselves, all of you who call for his head, how many of you are doing it because of 2000 blood diamonds and how many of you are doing it because it's Dakun?

I fully expect the trolls to come out, but please notice the section of the forums this is in, this is not flood, don't treat it that way. If you want to participate in a discussion on this issue, that's fine, but there will be no insulting, there will be no disrespecting... there has been too much of that around here lately.

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