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Hey everybody,
As surely every single member of the community has noticed by now, some Olsen members have been community wide banned by the staff team and me recently. Understandably this has caused a lot of confusion and wild speculation and I think I should clear this up.
It all started by Husky getting banned for a completely legitimate reason. I had nothing to do with said ban but obviously husky did not appreciate this. However, I assume he then got quite pissed and was unhappy with the decision and talked to his org.
Clearly this triggered Youseff, a fellow Olsen member, to spam our forums with ARs.
Obviously I am not going to accept any member of our community spamming our forums just because they disagree with a decision of a staff member. Furthermore Youseff was always causing beef in the shoutbox and being generally toxic, and at some point I have to step in and say enough is enough. And this is that point.
After that, Soph Aspergers (Nade Alardin) was banned for another unrelated reason. He was unbanned from a previous ban under the condition that he never breaks the rules again but got a warning that day, hence he was banned by AyJay for breaking the conditions of his unban.
Some Olsen members then thought they were being targeted or something and began spamming the shoutbox arguing about how the server is nothing without their org and how perp would die without them. The two major people involved in this were Feng and Speedy.
These two have been spreading toxicity in the shoutbox and on the forums for way too long (probably several years). I am sure everyone who is being honest to themselves can admit that this has been going on for a very long time, and I personally think this had to be stopped, so I stepped in and banned the two. A decision I have thought about for a very long time, and a decision I asked several other members of staff (including senior staff) about.
Of course these are two controversial bans, and I understand that some people will disagree with my decision. However, I do not want to be a part of a community where toxic behaviour like theirs is tolerated and embraced.
What really puts the nail in the coffin however is that after the bans went up, members of Olsen have tried to retaliate against the ban IRL. For example they repeatedly called my real life phone number, which I don't really mind too much, but which clearly shows that they are going way too far and us removing them from our community was exactly the right thing to do.
The worst part however is that they then proceeded to find personal details of staff members who they thought were involved in that discussion and actually found a phone number belonging to a staff member's relative who they then told people on their teamspeak to spam call tomorrow. And exactly this is where the fun ends. You do not get to harass someone who was almost entirely not involved just to make a point and as such anyone who was community wide banned today can be guaranteed that there is no chance in hell they're ever going to be unbanned.
This behaviour is entirely unacceptable and will not be tolerated by us.
I hope I could give you some insight into today's decision and maybe I could convince some of you that what we did was just. If you have any questions regarding this situation feel free to ask and I'll try to respond.
As surely every single member of the community has noticed by now, some Olsen members have been community wide banned by the staff team and me recently. Understandably this has caused a lot of confusion and wild speculation and I think I should clear this up.
It all started by Husky getting banned for a completely legitimate reason. I had nothing to do with said ban but obviously husky did not appreciate this. However, I assume he then got quite pissed and was unhappy with the decision and talked to his org.
Clearly this triggered Youseff, a fellow Olsen member, to spam our forums with ARs.
Obviously I am not going to accept any member of our community spamming our forums just because they disagree with a decision of a staff member. Furthermore Youseff was always causing beef in the shoutbox and being generally toxic, and at some point I have to step in and say enough is enough. And this is that point.
After that, Soph Aspergers (Nade Alardin) was banned for another unrelated reason. He was unbanned from a previous ban under the condition that he never breaks the rules again but got a warning that day, hence he was banned by AyJay for breaking the conditions of his unban.
Some Olsen members then thought they were being targeted or something and began spamming the shoutbox arguing about how the server is nothing without their org and how perp would die without them. The two major people involved in this were Feng and Speedy.
These two have been spreading toxicity in the shoutbox and on the forums for way too long (probably several years). I am sure everyone who is being honest to themselves can admit that this has been going on for a very long time, and I personally think this had to be stopped, so I stepped in and banned the two. A decision I have thought about for a very long time, and a decision I asked several other members of staff (including senior staff) about.
Of course these are two controversial bans, and I understand that some people will disagree with my decision. However, I do not want to be a part of a community where toxic behaviour like theirs is tolerated and embraced.
What really puts the nail in the coffin however is that after the bans went up, members of Olsen have tried to retaliate against the ban IRL. For example they repeatedly called my real life phone number, which I don't really mind too much, but which clearly shows that they are going way too far and us removing them from our community was exactly the right thing to do.
The worst part however is that they then proceeded to find personal details of staff members who they thought were involved in that discussion and actually found a phone number belonging to a staff member's relative who they then told people on their teamspeak to spam call tomorrow. And exactly this is where the fun ends. You do not get to harass someone who was almost entirely not involved just to make a point and as such anyone who was community wide banned today can be guaranteed that there is no chance in hell they're ever going to be unbanned.
This behaviour is entirely unacceptable and will not be tolerated by us.
I hope I could give you some insight into today's decision and maybe I could convince some of you that what we did was just. If you have any questions regarding this situation feel free to ask and I'll try to respond.
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