[thaye]

Communication would work if people on both sides are open to listening, but this community continuously dismisses actual discussions or pushes to tear apart someone's point immediately instead of furthering a discussion.
In staff chat when we would have discussions multiple members of the staff team would spam memes to try and stop the conversation or stubbornly just say "no, i will not do this" to say that no matter how the discussion or decision goes they have already chosen they don't care. Many people have also mentioned that we would like a bit more clarity on when issues are being worked on or investigated, but get told its on a need to know basis so we sit on things for extended periods with no info so the issue gets forgotten about anyway (even small issues). I also ran into the issue where I would get 0 responses to things that would happen or the only response was from Tief and no flame but she didn't know what rules to push either because staff training has not been worked on in eons. @Icey wasn't that a big part of ur admin app? just gonna say, what parts of ur admin app have u actually accomplished?

Away from issues when I was staff I keep hearing about people bringing up harassment in their discords, in private, or ignoring it as much as they can because anytime they have reported it or tried to report it it gets dismissed and ignored by the staff they reach out to. Multiple people have told me about times they have reported harassment and been ignored even when reporting with video evidence to well beloved admins like @bryanbrr . When I sometimes mention a problem player in passing conversation ill get the response "oh yeah they message in dms all the time but I just ignore it" which is the common sentiment because players don't trust staff at all.

Some members of the community need to leave the server alone. A large number of inactive members come back when changes are made because they love to stir the pot and stir up trouble because they disagree with changes to a server they haven't played on in years. Many like to claim that old rules they had a hand in making years ago are being misrepresented now because the new staff team with no training has had to reshape the server for the current player base. It doesn't really matter how the past was when the current community wants things to happen. Instead, the newer community gets chased away by cringe older players who come back from multi-year hiatus to question everything going on.  How many members of the community who joined in the last year just quit the community in the past few weeks? These people were passionate about the server and played very often, but now a majority of them are leaving and I know its specifically due to specific individuals actions.

All in all in my opinion a large amount of this community's problems come from people who won't grow up and let their beloved server from 2016 change when they aren't around so they fight until they make everyone who is passionate about improving the community quit.

We disagreed a lot in the past, but i think this is probably one of the most on point things anyone in this community has ever said