[lacer]

There are three things of relevance that I feel should be addressed - and I will address each in turn. Laced may wish to do so as well. Sure thing!

1. The November 2021 harassment ban - this is due to the situation involving a meme shared about his discord. While I do feel Laced isn't totally an innocent bystander in that situation, it ultimately was not Laced who made the meme and shared it about. I did observe that Travis opened the lines of communication in January of this year, and I would encourage Laced to try and rectify any ongoing issue should they exist. Otherwise, this was not really Laced who lit the fire - just didn't use the water bucket to put the fire out when it was small. I feel that time has resolved this, and Laced's judgement in various community aspects seems to support that notion.
   
   It's true that the meme was not made nor shared by me, however it was shared in my server and I shouldn't have let that happen. I have talked with Travis concerning this since that line of communication was opened up and apologized privately, it's now water under the bridge. My harassment ban wasn't for that, though, it was actually for this post. I had 50% warning level already and the 5 points from the harassment warn made the system permaban me. I was really pushing it.
   
   
2. When first attempting to get unbanned in 2021, Laced made a derogatory statement towards the admins, accusing the team of effectively supporting deranged individuals (which was clearly and unequivocally in contradiction to the many hours spent by admins to rid the community of such). Again, this can also be chalked up to a bad headspace, something that Laced has grown out of - but it continued to make me hesitate - and this has impacted my support. I especially was hurt by these comments, as we as an admin team were the owners of a community discord shared by various other TTT/PH gmod communities founded to ensure we are rid of such animals. I actually owned this community for around a year or so. But, Laced has subsequently apologized to both me personally and to the admin team - and it wasn't long after this post if memory serves. In my book, this is also water under the bridge.
   
   I uber cringed reading that thread again. I cannot apologize enough for that comment and I definitely would go back and slap myself across the face to stop from writing that if I could. I was extremely impulsive and just felt the need to stick it to the current admins because I felt they had done me wrong. (They really hadn't, I was a shithead) Despite my disagreements with the admins at the time, nobody deserved to be told that after working so hard to protect the community against those "people." Again, my deepest apologies for that comment.
   
   
3. Probably the only relevant issue in recent times, the controversy of the promotion to Web Mod. Man, did Laced get absolutely dogpiled on in the linked thread below. I think it's important to remember that while Laced's promotion was controversial, a lot of the hate was directed to Laced - when it really should have been directed towards Gabe for not allowing community input in that decision. Gabe did open future apps up to public input, which was the right decision. Whether laced was the right decision for web mod, I feel the 6 months or so has proven well that Laced can handle the job. I would note that most of his responses appear to be well tempered in the thread, though I don't care to go back through 15 pages of mostly worthless drama.
   
   Not much to say about this one, but I shouldn't have commented on that thread at all, as it only added fuel to the fire. I did realize after two comments that it probably wasn't a good idea to say anything, so I backed off and let it slowly die. Needing to defend myself against what I saw as attacks against my character is something I believe I've grown out of. Ultimately, I started to understand that it's just a GMod community forum and not every thread needs to be a pissing contest.
   

responses in red, ty for the comment jammer!