A few years ago, the first thing anyone reads in the server rules is a list of obligations by the admin team. Two out of four of them are that you treat everyone fairly. Lots of videos of blatant rule violations get floated around in the community and some find their way into reports and staff takes no action against them because they're in the same in-group that staff members are part of or like. Meanwhile when it's someone that staff very clearly dislikes you will sanction them over nothing by changing the standards required. When you take no action you say it's because you don't want to publicly humiliate the offending party, but clearly that goes out the window when it's someone you don't like.
Every single person that voted to sanction should be providing good reasons as to why they did this. 1.0 as it is, is nothing more than an excuse to apply at-will heavy decisions to people that staff doesn't like and they don't have to answer to anyone as to why they did it. Being allowed to vote on a sanction for something that isn't a rulebreak and then not having to be accountable to the community at all and waiting to be pressured into giving a response by playing dumb is ridiculous.
It's also very interesting that you decide to sanction this after it is explicitly stated in 2.1 that 2 messages and 10 seconds of delay is considered "sufficient" roleplay. For most of discovery's history it was never stated so explicitly, but now that it is, you suddenly decide to shift the goalposts and say it's not enough. How is this treating your players fairly?
(05-06-2025, 04:00 AM)Petitioner Wrote: You have made a habit out of providing extremely low-quality interactions ingame. While trawling the playerlist for lower-skilled PVPers to /l1 /2, logging off, and then deleting the ship afterwards is not otherwise a violation of engagement rules, it is not in any meaningful sense "roleplaying", and it isn't something we want to see here.
Based on this wording, you'd assume that hunting noobs and deleting the ship after a one-off interaction is something Mort does regularly. Yet, Mort uploads most of the fights he's been in and you can see him often on the same ships and factions he usually flies and regularly faces unfavorable odds as well. This attempt to paint an alleged offender in the worst light possible to try and win public opinion is very distasteful to say the least.
Funnily enough, what you described is also exactly the quality of RP that you'd expect from recent officially organised PvP events, which staff seems to always be absent from for some reason and is fine with letting them turn into a clusterfk while letting the event devs and volunteers take all the flak and the fall for it despite making zero effort (not even attending it, just totally absent, very unlike previous staff teams) to make sure they run smoothly or that event ships are put in trustworthy hands. The majority of the people that show up to these event formats do /1 /2, sometimes joining the already overwhelmingly winning side, and then logging off and deleting the ship after the event has concluded. I guess you'd love to sanction half the server too instead of taking any accountability for being negligent.
It's also interesting to think that if you had sanctioned a less known player the same way they'd have zero public support even if they weren't breaking any rules and you'd get away with it without having to be accountable for it.
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