04-05-2026, 01:29 AM
Sorry my response has taken so long. I've been busy and thinking a lot about what to say. There are a lot of things to address and I know I am not a perfect person, nor a perfect staff member(nobody is); however, the accusations of harassment directed just at your group of friends and calling for a community ban is quite absurd to me. The main things I want to address are:
The bans I gave out the other day have now been revoked since the punishments were primarily for attempted RDM, but your behavior of attacking others outside of your friend group with the popcorn buckets repeatedly is still not allowed. People who have played on the server as long as you should know better than most about it. I will admit I did get a little hasty with banning you, spider, since you were mostly innocent with the exception of a little rudeness when I joined, but I'll let it slide. When I originally saw the evidence video of the play before I joined I mistook you pushing Biig_Sad as throwing popcorn from above. I did also miss the RDM on Phan by him so he will be serving a week ban since this isn't his first offense. I admit I should have been more diligent with watching the video of evidence before punishments.
As for the evidence I had, it looks like I lost a majority of it when I upgraded my SSD and built my other PC, but there is still evidence in the murder staff discord from a while back of phantom RDMing and inappropriate chat messages. Information about those can also be found here. So it's not like phantom hasn't had a history of rule breaking. We have banned other players for the same and being a regular shouldn't excuse the behavior. I have punished other regulars and my friends for breaking rules too.
The "harassment" that I am being accused of with the name calling and other things about sexuality, being a furry, and calling you retards literally has never happened. I know my messages in discord the other day were stupid, but I was just frustrated and didn't portray what I meant. I was not admitting to saying those things and was also venting frustrations I had about separate matters altogether. The mutt nickname hasn't been mentioned in over 3 years because once Phan genuinely told me they hated it, I stopped, but when I was saying it, Phan was also calling me "Stinky fish" and saying I had "ick." So I assumed that was mutual banter that has now stopped. The crab thing that you are also bringing up wasn't just me. I know at the time I should have stopped before the others but I didn't start it and when everyone stopped, so did I.
What is going to change:
Over the next couple of weeks, I plan to work on the current rules that haven't been modified in over 3 years to try and make the guidelines more straightforward and make punishments easier to understand and deal out to rule breakers.
ALL CURRENT AND PAST PUNISHMENT/STRIKES WILL BE CLEARED AND EVERYONE WITHOUT A PERMA BAN WILL START WITH A CLEAN SLATE.
I will also work with Milk to change server settings to remove the damage of popcorn buckets to prevent killing and reduce RDMs. If I can, I will also try to get new maps added and change what maps are in rotation. I will also try to go through and remove near impossible to reach spots to even out the playing field for all players.
Hope this clears things up and feel free to DM me with any questions.
The bans I gave out the other day have now been revoked since the punishments were primarily for attempted RDM, but your behavior of attacking others outside of your friend group with the popcorn buckets repeatedly is still not allowed. People who have played on the server as long as you should know better than most about it. I will admit I did get a little hasty with banning you, spider, since you were mostly innocent with the exception of a little rudeness when I joined, but I'll let it slide. When I originally saw the evidence video of the play before I joined I mistook you pushing Biig_Sad as throwing popcorn from above. I did also miss the RDM on Phan by him so he will be serving a week ban since this isn't his first offense. I admit I should have been more diligent with watching the video of evidence before punishments.
As for the evidence I had, it looks like I lost a majority of it when I upgraded my SSD and built my other PC, but there is still evidence in the murder staff discord from a while back of phantom RDMing and inappropriate chat messages. Information about those can also be found here. So it's not like phantom hasn't had a history of rule breaking. We have banned other players for the same and being a regular shouldn't excuse the behavior. I have punished other regulars and my friends for breaking rules too.
The "harassment" that I am being accused of with the name calling and other things about sexuality, being a furry, and calling you retards literally has never happened. I know my messages in discord the other day were stupid, but I was just frustrated and didn't portray what I meant. I was not admitting to saying those things and was also venting frustrations I had about separate matters altogether. The mutt nickname hasn't been mentioned in over 3 years because once Phan genuinely told me they hated it, I stopped, but when I was saying it, Phan was also calling me "Stinky fish" and saying I had "ick." So I assumed that was mutual banter that has now stopped. The crab thing that you are also bringing up wasn't just me. I know at the time I should have stopped before the others but I didn't start it and when everyone stopped, so did I.
What is going to change:
Over the next couple of weeks, I plan to work on the current rules that haven't been modified in over 3 years to try and make the guidelines more straightforward and make punishments easier to understand and deal out to rule breakers.
ALL CURRENT AND PAST PUNISHMENT/STRIKES WILL BE CLEARED AND EVERYONE WITHOUT A PERMA BAN WILL START WITH A CLEAN SLATE.
I will also work with Milk to change server settings to remove the damage of popcorn buckets to prevent killing and reduce RDMs. If I can, I will also try to get new maps added and change what maps are in rotation. I will also try to go through and remove near impossible to reach spots to even out the playing field for all players.
Hope this clears things up and feel free to DM me with any questions.