07-01-2021, 11:50 PM
Just going to cut much of this out.
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So ten minutes after you told me not to ask why my friend was muted, you gagged me for saying "there's a 90 second limit, you gagged us for 4 minutes" because in doing so I was questioning every decision you were making?
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Staff are allowed to use staff discretion when facing many scenarios. If every situation had to be written down as a guideline with a step by step process, it would cause more chaos than it would fix. Travis explained his reasoning for gagging everyone for a round, in case if the reasoning was not clear in the video he presented. Even though it is in the rules to not gag everyone for over 90 seconds, he had already did that with his first gag all, after this when it happened again, Travis entered different territory where the rules/guidelines, don't necessarily specify on what to do next. As I have said, that particular guideline in the toxic trolling section, should probably go to staff guidelines however, we were not in toxic trolling specifically with those gag alls, we were more in mic spam territory which I believe we can all agree on that major mic spam occurred twice where all you could hear was the yelling.
So this is how things will proceed going forward. Travis will receive a warning as well as a talk on how just a short explanation on why people are gagged/banned/punished etc should be used rather than stonewalling them with basically the following:
"I'm staff and I say so."
Now, he was within the bounds of the rules in doing this however, the way he did it caused unneeded hostility where the aftermath can be found in his video as well as in this thread on the forums. That is taking from the interaction between the two of you in the first video as well as in the 2nd video. The "90 second rule" will be moved to the staff guidelines under the mic spam section and better explained. It being there will also to limit overzealous donors from doing so in the future. We have to remember this is a game and not a place to be rude to each for insignificant reasons. Which after watching both videos more than once, both sides are guilty of even if unintentionally.
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So ten minutes after you told me not to ask why my friend was muted, you gagged me for saying "there's a 90 second limit, you gagged us for 4 minutes" because in doing so I was questioning every decision you were making?
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Staff are allowed to use staff discretion when facing many scenarios. If every situation had to be written down as a guideline with a step by step process, it would cause more chaos than it would fix. Travis explained his reasoning for gagging everyone for a round, in case if the reasoning was not clear in the video he presented. Even though it is in the rules to not gag everyone for over 90 seconds, he had already did that with his first gag all, after this when it happened again, Travis entered different territory where the rules/guidelines, don't necessarily specify on what to do next. As I have said, that particular guideline in the toxic trolling section, should probably go to staff guidelines however, we were not in toxic trolling specifically with those gag alls, we were more in mic spam territory which I believe we can all agree on that major mic spam occurred twice where all you could hear was the yelling.
So this is how things will proceed going forward. Travis will receive a warning as well as a talk on how just a short explanation on why people are gagged/banned/punished etc should be used rather than stonewalling them with basically the following:
"I'm staff and I say so."
Now, he was within the bounds of the rules in doing this however, the way he did it caused unneeded hostility where the aftermath can be found in his video as well as in this thread on the forums. That is taking from the interaction between the two of you in the first video as well as in the 2nd video. The "90 second rule" will be moved to the staff guidelines under the mic spam section and better explained. It being there will also to limit overzealous donors from doing so in the future. We have to remember this is a game and not a place to be rude to each for insignificant reasons. Which after watching both videos more than once, both sides are guilty of even if unintentionally.
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