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Addressing Toxicity in the Community
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(08-25-2019, 12:40 AM)queef commando Wrote: The Problem
It has come to the attention of upper staff, including Dinkleberg and the PH/TTT Admins, that a set of toxic cliques has formed in this community. 
These groups are spiteful and childish, harassing any player that does not agree with their actions. Commenters on staff apps regularly get 
attacked for not agreeing with their outlooks. People are harassed on the forums and on Discord. This has led to quite a number of users being 
afraid to comment on applications or participate in the community for fear of backlash and harassment. 
This is not okay.   you're talking about all this evidance but you literally posted nothing worthhy of  a community ban.

Further, while these people openly attack anyone who doesn’t listen to their hivemind, they decry anyone that is not a part of them as “toxic” and 
oppressing them. This is not just sad, but undoubtedly wrong. Frankly, these actors have been allowed to continue for far too long, and we apologize 
for not doing something about this sooner. It took time for us together and review evidence, and to form a consensus. It took far too long. This 
community should be safe for all members. In a desire to not act too quickly we have neglected certain members and let them be attacked. 
We left you without a voice. We can only apologize for not acting sooner. 
But now is time to end this.


The Evidence
It is not okay to lie about your history and actions, belittle others, falsify situations, pathetically brag and be toxic just to feed your own ego.

It is not okay to attack people for making valid criticisms on staff apps or other threads.

It is not okay to harass members so consistently that they fear voicing an opinion.

It is not okay to egg on further conflict just because you think your friends are never wrong.

It is not okay to mindlessly hivemind support for your friends despite logic and reasonable outlook.

It is not okay to literally tell people their opinions are wrong because they disagree.

Besides the evidence of toxicity here there is more that cannot be shown. Some evidence involves users who we hoped to keep anonymous to 
protect them from backlash. Other evidence cannot be captured. The offhand comments, the tone with which people speak, the short tempers. 
Everyone knows how it is when someone is throwing shade. We all know the feeling. And that shade being thrown by a large group against single 
individuals who won’t be a part of the hivemind is unacceptable. Making people feel unwanted because they don’t agree will not be tolerated. 


The Punishment
Thus, in a unanimous joint PH and TTT Admin decision, and with the blessing of Dinkleberg, we hand out the following punishment:

Battons, Lily, HalfDemonLink, Laced Xanax, Wildfire, TDawg, and Ritsunureru are indefinitely community banned. 
These members may appeal this decision and each will be decided on a case by case basis.


The End
This decision was not made lightly and was given much thought by all members of the Admin team and Dinkleberg. 
If you have any questions or concerns please direct them towards the TTT or PH Admins. Thank you.


Edit: Post edited to more clearly show different hyperlinks
"Besides the evidence of toxicity here there is more that cannot be shown. Some evidence involves users who we hoped to keep anonymous to 

protect them from backlash"
I thought the whole point of this ban was to get rid of that fear seems like all this ban did was put fear into the players who wanna speak there opinion. if you got rid of all the people who are attacking people for there opinion why are you hiding it? unless you know this ban isn't solid and that the community doesn't agree with it which again brings up I thought this was supposed to help the community not hurt it.


what members have been neglected or attacked none of these pictures show people being attacked and half of them aren't even toxic other than the whole rits situtation where everyone was shitting on each other which again isn't worthy of a community ban and doesn't add up to it. Also if that adds up to being community banned why did cosmic get 100 times more chances than all of these people combined? you can't pick who gets a lot of chances and who doesn't cosmic and this ban is a good example of how out of touch the admins are because of there inactivity. 

we have one active ttt admin thought the rest couldn't vote? I'm assuming the prop hunt people are only involved in this because you want a community ban even tho more than half of these players don't even play prop hunt or talk to prop hunt players so it's wrong to community ban them. Also, Dinks "blessing" means nothing he's bans whoever the admins say to even if they're inactive which breaks his own rule lmao. haha remember my ban when dinks banned me because dakody said so? without any good evidence hahaha. the only people who should be allowed to vote here is Gabe and dink now I understand dink can ban whoever he wants but I'm sure he's going off what the rest of the inactive admins are saying which is wrong and shows how he doesn't care about the community opinion or any of the individuals.

the ban on wild doesn't make sense lol he shit talked dink and has an ego? I shit talk dink daily on how fucking sad it is for hitboxes to be broken for my entire time here meanwhile every other server has fixed or made it better.   I see everyone shit talking dink, you gotta ban a lot of people for that then.


all this shows is you can't have private discords to speak ur mind or have any opinion on players that could hurt their feelings. this ban is up there with my ban in terms of how retarded it is.

every post so far has been against this ban so either we're all apart of there little group or you guys are wrong. The only people who are for it aren't posting and they're the people who they "attacked" but you won't post any of that evidence of that so how is the community and staff suppose to help them or believe in this ban?
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RE: Addressing Toxicity in the Community - by Fozzy - 08-25-2019, 10:26 AM
RE: Addressing Toxicity in the Community - by Avi - 08-25-2019, 03:08 PM

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