[TheUltraFish]

I cannot believe I am saying this since we have butted heads multiple times but, for the most part, I completely agree with you. I am sorry that you felt the need to post something like this but I believe it to be truthful and honest.

The admins investigating friends thing was probably due in part to my fault. As I had investigated people that would be considered my friend and found them guilty. During that time period, a lot of things were going at the time, there were a lot of serious bans going on. I was made into a very bitter person as a result and treated many people not as I should. The things that the upper admin team were dealing on sometimes a daily basis were bad but that is a poor excuse. With everything going on with the guy posting child pornography all the time on the server (got banned over 50 times btw), to more than one staff member taking part in similar illegal activities. The Deer-ly situation kind of fell in the middle of the mess.


During the investigation of Chief and Deer-ly. It was clear that despite knowing Chief for a long time, he was guilty. Getting rid of Chief was a no brainer. When it came to Deer-ly, it did come across to me that Deer-ly was an adult pretending to be a minor to get people in trouble. That was a no fly in my book as I did not want to risk any other community member being caught by Deer-ly. This is what caused me to vote in favor of banning Deer-ly. If I was truly wrong in that, I am sorry. I know saying sorry is not a lot for being community banned, but it is all I can offer.


bunniey, I agree with your thoughts on not having friends investigating friends or at least, not investigating friends alone. I will bring up two examples, Abdel and gerbil. When I received enough information to act on and fully investigate, I brought an outside source that I trusted to look over every piece with me in a VC that only other upper staff could join. I collected a majority of the information or had the information sent to me from various sources, like community members, to my DMs and we analyzed every piece of information that came through. In doing this, we established a timeline of the incidents, were able to approach it from multiple viewpoints to make sure everything was ironclad, and the bans did not take place until everything was typed up and orderly. This was presented to the upper staff team and a decision of community ban took place.


To jump up to your first statement, this somewhat existed in my time. As we had that you could report such an issue to someone you trusted in the higher ups and the situation would be looked into. It was not a perfect system but no system is. The upper staff team needs to make sure they stay open and approachable for all community members and remaining unbiased as possible. Being able to back up or support someone, especially those you do not like, in a serious matter is a very important aspect in leadership in a community such as this. If you are unable to do that, you do not belong in a position on leadership. 


Finally, I am sorry that you are being mistreated due to the actions of others. The "you should have known" statements are completely unfounded. Please remain strong and keep fighting for what you believe. That includes calling out the leadership when they make questionable decisions from your perspective. All I ask, is that we all approach things open minded this entire situation could have been handled so much better. Alternatively, sometimes you have to make enough noise until people come and see what is going on.


tldr
I agree with you
Sorry if I was wrong with some context
communication and investigation stuff
Stay strong king