While I agree that there are certainly some issues regarding punishment lengths and bias, these are issues that we can't necessarily avoid. DiamondFire being a much smaller community compared to other servers will obviously result in there being some form of bias no matter who we're punishing due to the mods having interacted with most active members. This is pretty much unavoidable and we try to counteract it as much as possible by having a team-wide discussions (a
lot, trust me), although I know that this isn't a complete solution to the problem.
We're trying to eliminate this bias by other means, but these aren't very practical and don't always result in a better experience for us or the players. Regarding the whole DM issue, we concluded that very little actual harm was done and the doxxer definitely seemed apologetic for it. If the information were up to date or if it were your actual IP the outcome would likely have been different, but due to the nature of DMs we can't really moderate it, as Owen said. I have my own doubts about it but if we do act on them then we might find ourselves in a situation where the mods are overreaching their authority. At what point does something fall under our jurisdiction? These are really hard questions to answer and certainly not ones we can answer without some backlash from some section of the community.
Yeah especially general_mudkip banning me for disliking ryanland!
Disliking someone and outright saying that you hate them are 2 different things.
Dear moderators and admins (not all of you), please be consistent and use this logic everywhere and not just against those you do not like
Again, we certainly try but there are some situations that we can't ignore. We have a rule that allows for choices solely based on moderator discretion outside of the rules, but this has only been used
2-3 times in the past few years. It's not something that we take lightly and we do a
lot of discussion before actually acting on anything that requires us to "make up" a rule.
the bias against me is definitely conscious, allegedly maxbuster has said that they have tried to find any reason to ban me in the past
Regarding this, there is a strong difference between bias and knowing someone is an active troublemaker. If you want more information on your ban and the reasons behind feel free to open a conversation with me as I'm not sure if you're comfortable talking about it here.
People that are related to you via DF. If a lot of bots raid the server, and they spam DMs with porn links, this would be allowed by the current logic. That's the issue
Bots are obviously things that we ban for, as they go against Discord ToS and it's our responsibility as moderators/administrators to deal with them and report them to Discord.
