[Henry]

You're presenting a problem, but you're not offering any sort of a solution to the problem; I do agree that staffing amongst us is inconsistent as we all have different opinions on what's too much or "going too far," but it's because of the fact that we all approach situations differently that there is inconsistency on how staffing is done. I myself usually try not to overstep any boundaries when I'm handling issues on the server, but sometimes I make a mistake and overstep.  The problem with trying to address something like this is that staffing isn't always a black and white situation; in fact, it's usually a gray area problem. That's why sometimes I don't do anything because I feel like it'd be overstepping my boundaries and my sphere of influence as a Test Mod on TTT.

So what I want to ask you is this: What kind of solution do you think should be implemented to deal with this inconsistency with staffing? What do you think would help?

Simply complaining about it and expecting us to just magically fix it doesn't do anything; it just makes you look like an ass; I'd even go as far to say you're a "Karen" by doing that.

Just consider what I've said about coming up with a solution. If you can present one that is reasonable, I'll respect it. You can't fix problems on here or in the real world by simply complaining, you have to have initiative and think of ideas to solve a said issue. Just a life lesson I want you to take from what I'm saying.

I think you've failed to read what I had actually said. The point of my making this post isn't to just complain, and I feel like you've read this whole post as a complaint since that's what you were expecting given my rant in the discord. My solution, to rephrase what I said before. I agree completely its a gray area solution, which is why I want staff judgement on a case by case basis, instead of blanket punishments given what the rules say. My proposed solution is giving staff the discretion to make punishments with context included, meaning making new guidelines that treat obvious RDMers more harshly than players who want to be part of the community. Players that have been around a few days probably are looking to stay and shouldn't be instantly banned as if they're only here to troll. I also think that the staff need to be encouraged to apply the rules that are put forth more consistently when dealing with veterans and donors. I would like to see rules introduced that don't escalate things to a ban immediately, since trolls who are tempbanned are unlikely to return, I think its worth introducing temporary bans as punishments for users who RDM who are not new members. For brand new members who are obviously trolls it does warrant an immediate ban, but I think staff have the judgement to tell whether a new user who has been around for a few days really has the intent to troll or if they are just participating in the same way other users do here. I think its also worth pointing out this server does have an occasional culture of RDM and propkill, so when a user is involved in an rdm incident while the whole server is rdming / propkill battling, I think it doesn't make sense to have a report opened and a permaban served, especially since those ban requests are often entirely lacking context for when the RDM happened. Ban requests should require some sort of context and we should actually be talking to the supposed witnesses (and have more than one!), since these users can give this context and refute the claim that a kill is entirely random if its obvious that it isn't.