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Introduction:
I've made some recent suggestions regarding rules, which there are a few problems with the rules yes. But I think that the underlying problem is with the staff on the server. This post is a collection of mine and others' experiences with staff.
Me and some others have discussed this, and staff have an insane bias towards other staff, and can literally break rules and get no punishment.
(Note: I'm not trying to throw shade at any of these people, I'm using their incidents to arrive at a conclusion, not to damn any of them)
Incidents:
sekksy:
sekksy was banned for placing a NSFW map on his whitelisted plot. (This makes sense), then,
Penguinz22 (Who was staff at the time) places a NSFW map on his plot, and receives no punishment when an admin (Might have been Jere, can't remember) saw it. (Except being asked to remove it)
BupBoi:
BupBoi was tempbanned from the DF Discord by Dubinzi for saying "Santa isn't real." Nonsense.
SludsVEVO: (Longer since I was involved)
SludsVEVO was harassing caution in discord DMs, constantly bullying him. For reference, Caution made a generic mining game.
Sluds was repeatedly telling caution to give him full credit for his mining plot because it "copied" Mining Legends, which is years-old, and was generally being very rude on provocative. He then posted his screenshots in a discord server known as frog bog (Which is mostly staff members) and was saying some really bad things about caution, along with the other members (Some of which were staff).
When reported to Numero, it's passed over to ryanroo2, who goes silent for two weeks and says it was handled privately.
(A bit after this, sluds was promoted to mod, and sluds had credit on caution's plot despite doing nothing)
(Also worth noting is Caution was talking about feeling depressed, which I believe is likely related to sluds' bullying)
NoahLikesPi:
My friend was messing around with his alt on his one basic, and NoahLikesPi joins the plot and starts abusing /fly. Noah was asked to stop several times by my friend, and responded mockingly, and didn't stop. From Noah's perspective, he was abusing fly on a new player's plot against their will. Great staff.
Noah wasn't punished. (Staff acknowledged the situation and said what he did wasn't punishable somehow)
Analysis:
Staff can get away with bullying, abuse, and literally putting NSFW content, with absolutely no punishments or warnings or anything at all.
On the other hand, regular players can get warned and banned for the slightest offenses.
There is insane staff bias and staff members need to be held to be held accountable for their actions or else the staff will continue doing these ridiculous actions.
Closing:
One final thing I want to talk about is staff promotions. There is bias in promotions as well.
A friend of mine, cedric, applied for staff recently and to be honest their coding knowledge isn't that expansive. They were denied for inadequate code.
Another person I know, Maximization, hangs out in the discord server from earlier, frog bog, which is filled with staff. I remember being in a call with him a week or so before he was promoted and he didn't know how to use variables. I believe that his coding ability came second to his relation with staff.
(Once again, not trying to throw shade at Max, I'm using his case to support my argument)
No matter what angle you look at it, there is staff bias everywhere in DF, and something NEEDS to be done about it, otherwise these incidents will keep popping up. (I truly believe that these incidents happen because staff feel like they aren't accountable for their actions. Because right now at least, they aren't.)
I've made some recent suggestions regarding rules, which there are a few problems with the rules yes. But I think that the underlying problem is with the staff on the server. This post is a collection of mine and others' experiences with staff.
Me and some others have discussed this, and staff have an insane bias towards other staff, and can literally break rules and get no punishment.
(Note: I'm not trying to throw shade at any of these people, I'm using their incidents to arrive at a conclusion, not to damn any of them)
Incidents:
sekksy:
sekksy was banned for placing a NSFW map on his whitelisted plot. (This makes sense), then,
Penguinz22 (Who was staff at the time) places a NSFW map on his plot, and receives no punishment when an admin (Might have been Jere, can't remember) saw it. (Except being asked to remove it)
BupBoi:
BupBoi was tempbanned from the DF Discord by Dubinzi for saying "Santa isn't real." Nonsense.
SludsVEVO: (Longer since I was involved)
SludsVEVO was harassing caution in discord DMs, constantly bullying him. For reference, Caution made a generic mining game.
Sluds was repeatedly telling caution to give him full credit for his mining plot because it "copied" Mining Legends, which is years-old, and was generally being very rude on provocative. He then posted his screenshots in a discord server known as frog bog (Which is mostly staff members) and was saying some really bad things about caution, along with the other members (Some of which were staff).
When reported to Numero, it's passed over to ryanroo2, who goes silent for two weeks and says it was handled privately.
(A bit after this, sluds was promoted to mod, and sluds had credit on caution's plot despite doing nothing)
(Also worth noting is Caution was talking about feeling depressed, which I believe is likely related to sluds' bullying)
NoahLikesPi:
My friend was messing around with his alt on his one basic, and NoahLikesPi joins the plot and starts abusing /fly. Noah was asked to stop several times by my friend, and responded mockingly, and didn't stop. From Noah's perspective, he was abusing fly on a new player's plot against their will. Great staff.
Noah wasn't punished. (Staff acknowledged the situation and said what he did wasn't punishable somehow)
Analysis:
Staff can get away with bullying, abuse, and literally putting NSFW content, with absolutely no punishments or warnings or anything at all.
On the other hand, regular players can get warned and banned for the slightest offenses.
There is insane staff bias and staff members need to be held to be held accountable for their actions or else the staff will continue doing these ridiculous actions.
Closing:
One final thing I want to talk about is staff promotions. There is bias in promotions as well.
A friend of mine, cedric, applied for staff recently and to be honest their coding knowledge isn't that expansive. They were denied for inadequate code.
Another person I know, Maximization, hangs out in the discord server from earlier, frog bog, which is filled with staff. I remember being in a call with him a week or so before he was promoted and he didn't know how to use variables. I believe that his coding ability came second to his relation with staff.
(Once again, not trying to throw shade at Max, I'm using his case to support my argument)
No matter what angle you look at it, there is staff bias everywhere in DF, and something NEEDS to be done about it, otherwise these incidents will keep popping up. (I truly believe that these incidents happen because staff feel like they aren't accountable for their actions. Because right now at least, they aren't.)
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