11-08-2018, 10:29 AM
Just to be clear on my part in this.
I chose to defend Deandre because I am a strong believer in looking at the perspective of both sides of the coin. I personally hadn't had any issues with him whatsoever, so I shared that information. I was hoping to spark a productive discussion because I felt that deandre had been hard-done by on multiple occasions, by multiple administrators, and wanted to iron things out across the board so that everyone could be on the same page.
This is not what happened.
Instead I was met with anger and hatred because I had publicly "undermined" the admin team. My intent was never to undermine anyone, I just wanted to support a player who had taken the time to write a thread concerning their time on the server.
After taking a hit from practically everyone on the admin team, I decided that enough was enough. If the admin team is incapable of dealing with these issues correctly and then blasting me, then I wanted to resign. So I did. For the second time. After only rejoining the team because I was asked to come back due to there not being enough admins.
Let's be totally real and honest here: Deandre has been banned a total of 2 times. Once for an attempted massy, and then now. If he has really been such an issue for such a long time as all of the admins seem to think, then why has he not been punished sooner? Instead of banning him for 1-3 days after an offence and then progressing from there, he has somehow had his "offences" over a long period of time pooled up into a 1-week ban. Not only has that clearly been handled incorrectly, but if so many staff members have an issue with him, AND he has previously been CT-banned for a mass freekill, why has there been so much hesitation in taking action against him?
I honestly don't have an issue with the ban itself whatsoever IF what is being said about deandre is true. I have never tried to contest the ban by any means at all. All I was getting at in my post on deandre's thread yesterday was that I had felt that there was a bias against him.
I wasn't under the impression that I'd done anything wrong because not only was my post not deleted but no one even spoke to me about it until I joined the conversation in the Staff Chat on discord.
The underlying issue here has nothing to do with deandre or myself though. It is mostly to do with the way in which this was all handled. If our admin team is too scared to put their foot down on a regular player then this is on them, not on anyone else.
I chose to defend Deandre because I am a strong believer in looking at the perspective of both sides of the coin. I personally hadn't had any issues with him whatsoever, so I shared that information. I was hoping to spark a productive discussion because I felt that deandre had been hard-done by on multiple occasions, by multiple administrators, and wanted to iron things out across the board so that everyone could be on the same page.
This is not what happened.
Instead I was met with anger and hatred because I had publicly "undermined" the admin team. My intent was never to undermine anyone, I just wanted to support a player who had taken the time to write a thread concerning their time on the server.
After taking a hit from practically everyone on the admin team, I decided that enough was enough. If the admin team is incapable of dealing with these issues correctly and then blasting me, then I wanted to resign. So I did. For the second time. After only rejoining the team because I was asked to come back due to there not being enough admins.
Let's be totally real and honest here: Deandre has been banned a total of 2 times. Once for an attempted massy, and then now. If he has really been such an issue for such a long time as all of the admins seem to think, then why has he not been punished sooner? Instead of banning him for 1-3 days after an offence and then progressing from there, he has somehow had his "offences" over a long period of time pooled up into a 1-week ban. Not only has that clearly been handled incorrectly, but if so many staff members have an issue with him, AND he has previously been CT-banned for a mass freekill, why has there been so much hesitation in taking action against him?
I honestly don't have an issue with the ban itself whatsoever IF what is being said about deandre is true. I have never tried to contest the ban by any means at all. All I was getting at in my post on deandre's thread yesterday was that I had felt that there was a bias against him.
I wasn't under the impression that I'd done anything wrong because not only was my post not deleted but no one even spoke to me about it until I joined the conversation in the Staff Chat on discord.
The underlying issue here has nothing to do with deandre or myself though. It is mostly to do with the way in which this was all handled. If our admin team is too scared to put their foot down on a regular player then this is on them, not on anyone else.