Admin notice: Players Banned

[worldstrider]

Sorry to post here but wanted to say something on behalf of HAf that they can't say for themselves.

I have been in exactly this same position in the past THREE times as a newer faction creator--an established "reputable" faction engineered events and appearances to "file a complaint/sanction"--both as ammo to use with admins AND other players. On one occasion I was able to actually produce evidence--the other two happened when I first proposed the Congress 'way back and I wasn't savvy enough to realize until after the fact what was happening,

It is incredibly frustrating to be a new person putting real effort into building something here and to have a few who have already arrived devoted to ruining your play, reputation and faction attempt--though innuendo, false accusation, oorp behavior and rules lawyering. The balance usually tilts towards the old hands and it makes it even harder to get a fair shot at remedying things.

HAF showed incredible restraint on the multiple occasions I stumbled into altercations between them and deserve credit for that. OPG is dealing with their issue and that is great now but I wanted to speak as a person who's been there for HAF. They have ALREADY shown some real self-control (despite other cases where they didn't) as they started out on the bottom of this and were sandbagged before they even had a chance to build a rep.

The admins have been making real efforts to stop older players from using their seeming status to excuse bad play and I absolutely applaud them in it. My suggestion is judge HAF after this by light of what they are doing then--not by what seems to have transpired before.

Thanks.

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