Let's not mention the part where you say there is Skype evidence, when admins have said multiple times Skype stuff is irrelevant to sanctions.
(07-14-2016, 04:48 PM)Jansen Wrote: The so called "official Dev strike" has added another layer to this already rather complex decision. If we decide to revert the decision, we are going to open a way for every further unpopular decision to be reverted by such a 'strike' and we as Admins essentially lose every bit of authority we need to keep the server running and community intact. If we decide to keep the decision, then the Developers involved might stop working and we certainly look like cruel rulers, which might make things look less appealing for members, newcomers or returning people.
The people that complain that our decision takes too long or that claim that they could decide this much better and faster than we can, how would you decide?
Is this something that you would decide without trying to take every possible outcome and its consequences into account, or is it something that you would try to think through as well as you can?
This is the important part. You're more afraid about losing your so called authority than harming the server by banning people who should not have been banned given that people who did much worse weren't.
Authority isn't something that you earn or lose, it's something that you have. Authority is having server commands to ban people, delete things, etc. The word that you want here is credibility, which is much more important than authority, and is what you're losing by the second. You have credibility when you abide the rules, stick to them and apply common sense on judgement. Yes, you can decide not to send evidence and ignore all the rules that you admins made, of course. That's your authority, and that destroys your credibility. Because it is credibility that holds a community together, not authority. Authority won't stop me from deleting Discovery Freelancer in my computer because the people in charge of the game are simply not reliable and completely irresponsible, concerned about whether people will obey them or not.
To solve this, all you need to do is literally explain to the people that were banned why they were banned, you don't even need evidence. Once you've done that you review whether they should be banned or not over the things you explained to them, and you unban those that you banned unjustly, such as @Mephistoles or @Karst, who were literally harmless to the gameplay and server enjoyment. If you're going to say that Mephistoles and Karst did a 3v1 and then sundived 1 minute later, then you're going to have to ban pretty much any other player that has ever undocked from a base in this game.
