Purging

[Silver]

No need to throw everyone else involved under the bus there, it was still my fault for even suggesting it in the first place. Still, I hope you aren't simply dismissing the context that lead up to that action itself.

When we already had to monitor a highly problematic thread and had to invisible 5 posts before the two warnings were given, you tend to drop a warning that involves no compromises. Here is your darvin's award, it would say, come claim it. So in that case, Shiki's posts with faction accounts of all things, really seemed as a ''you wouldn't dare'' sort of statement.

This is the first time in.. seven years that anyone here will see me post something this serious here. Yes, Justin, I am breaking my veneer of ice and cool. And I am not doing this for Shiki, gods knows Vasko knows what I have said to him.

I do understand that you feel your work here is.. let's say non appreciated. Well, I do appreciate it, for instance (see the pun?). The O-3 Brawl and the whole dynamic events you put up (thanks Alley for the tools for it, teach me obi-alley-wan, you're my only hope), are without a doubt, one of the most fun times I had in the past year (to the ones that don't know me, I tend to disappear once in a while). You seem a fun admin, one willing to give agility and a sense of dynamism to the whole mod, and for that I am grateful. (You're no Dusty though, so don't let it get to your head)

There are always voices for and against to every and other decisions your team makes. Leading a community, leading a team, leading people always have that, and always will. I have been always against using short-sword measures (old Portuguese saying here) due to the fact it creates open wounds that never ever really close.

Hindsight is twenty twenty (probably an american saying), and now with this avalanche of criticism due to the method of punishment employed, everyone is a critic (me included). Well, I know you feel bad as hell. I know you are getting the flaming end of this very bad stick.

But as always in life, and it is something I cultivate in my job.. I don't care who is to blame if there is a solution. So let us work towards it, and even if it costs us a little more heartache, a little more time, let us do it, for that is the way to go forward, together.

Because then, you will be the guy that admitted that effed up, and also the guy that solved it. It makes you a better man. It makes you the man that did the right thing.

Think it through.

Thank you again, to everyone in the Admin and Dev team for all of your work.

<3

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:12:00] Traxit: this is smut stop