[Nate]

I don't know how or why the trust and respect became that bad to split the community like that, but it is rather off putting.

Just my two cents, but there seems to be two different sides that want different things for the server. And I’m not just talking about the whole “Reina vs Dong group” shit. I’ve noticed this for about a little over a year as different people became staff, and offered their opinions and influence. And this isn’t even necessarily a bad thing. It’s always a great thing to hear multiplle sides and listen to different opinions on different problems that we face as a community. It only became a bad thing when several people from either side started burning bridges with anybody who didn’t completely agree with them. When we started shaming them behind private discords; calling them out and essentially getting a mob to go after somebody. And I am well aware that there are more than just some “simple disagreements” and some of this is a much bigger issue; but this has happened for a long time with much simpler disagreements as well. Something that could’ve easily been talked about maturely and easily resolved. And even the bigger issues, could’ve been maturely talked about instead of publicly shaming, privately shaming, and the back and forth elementary level name calling. We as a community truly do need to learn how to better communicate. 

If you are reading this and think I am specifically talking about you; you may just be a part of the problem