[Gabeolo]

I think that conversations about moderators committing crimes and someone attacking the server with illegal activity actually ARE conversations we need to have. Knowledge is power, and knowing that things have happened can prevent you from being a future victim, directly by the perpetrator, or by the community's (staff or otherwise) reaction to the events. Because as grim as saying this is, I am under the full belief that those events will repeat. What bothers me about the punishment given to Rand and others is that they are mostly TTT players, and haven't touched PH in a while. The first time they heard about the attacks on PH where when they were appealing their punishment, somebody should have informed them. And about the fear that the community will act immaturely to the news that actions such as the previous examples, that expectation is fully valid and there is just about nothing you can do about them reacting that way. But you quite literally signed up for this, and that reaction is just the kind of thing that you have to deal with. Now I don't think you have to really scream from the hilltops and throw feces around to inform everyone that an event like the examples mentioned has happened. I actually like how the Gebrial situation was addressed, taking it soft, yet obvious, in a forum post by the upper staff (I'd prefer if it was linked in #announcements, probably without a ping though) feels like the way to go in a situation like that, and if that had happened with the other example a lot of chaos could have been prevented I feel. Don't know how to end this tbh but lets keep it cool and preferably semiformal in here, yeah?