Discord Admin Complaint

John Space

Your Discord Username: 1anaverageguy (commonly known as John Space)

Admin's Usernames: ze_spyro, o_berry, basically all the admins involved in my banning.

Reason for Complaint: Multiple reasons, I'll get into it.

1. False Banning
First off, to make things clear, this is not a ban appeal. Frankly with how toxic mrp is and how biased and metafriended the admins are, I'd really rather not come back unless massive changes are done to prevent personal attacks on me. So, why am I talking about my ban then? My ban plays an important part in what really wasn't an actual ban, but more of just a reason to remove me because they personally didn't like me. So first off, I didn't break any server rules. While yes, I did mention greymaria in a message when I got back, I wasn't aware of this rule and tay had the rules hidden, as you can see here in this screenshot.
However, this wasn't the reason for my banning, and taydeo confirmed it was just for ragebaiting. This doesn't explain why I was banned, since there really isn't a rule against me making jokes. There is rule 1, for breaking discord TOS and harrassing users, which one could argue with it saying it saying that I was indeed. And honestly, despite it being jokes, I can understand this. As a matter of fact, when I was told to stop by tay I did, and just instead decided to only troll tay. I figured this was fine since tay was my friend, but apparently the mrpmins did not vibe with me insulting their great leader. Now, there is also this final rule at the bottom here
This is what I assume they did to me, as I can confirm from tay they did hold a vote to ban me or something like that. Honestly, I would agree with this ban. HOWEVER, as it would turn out, the MRP admins have already been breaking rule 1 even before I ever did. How can I accept a ban when all I did was make jokes (I have always made it very clear I'm joking, tay has stood up for me on this point.), while these guys get away with harassing me and users until they leave the entire server?

2. Admins have literally harassed me
This is the main meat of the admin complaint here, because these admins have done absolutely wild shit, ranging from harassing users straight up, to ignoring when the harassment happens since their metafriends are the ones doing it. I'd really not have much of a problem with it, if they weren't hypocrites and have done worse shit than I ever did with my jokes (which again, I make it pretty fucking clear its all jokes and I stop when I'm told to). So, first things first, the admins clearly hate me. Now as it turns out, ze has DELETED one or two messages of them really ripping into me in the mrp chat where I can't see them, so I can't prove any of that sadly, however we still have a lot of messages that are just straight up targeted harassment. First off is them slandering me over something I didn't do, I wouldn't abuse my maintainer powers to do a thing like this.
Here's another where they basically call me a toxin
and this one explains itself

Sure, these COULD be jokes, and I'd be fine if they were, but when I get banned for jokes, they should be banned too. Especially since, they aren't my fucking friend and never made it clear if these ARE jokes. There's no doubt in my mind that they only banned me because of a personal issue. Especially near the end here. Keep in mind I was only joking around with tay. I stopped when I was told to stop and yet, despite the facts, they ignored it just to add on this
Now these are the only times they've directly attacked me, which isn't all that bad. Frankly I don't mind getting insulted I don't hold any grudges like they do. Hell sometimes its even funny, there's literally a sticker of them ragebaiting me. But when I get banned for ragebaiting, and you have a sticker of someone ragebaiting, it isn't exactly really fair now is it? Now there are still times where admins have mocked me via reactions or other times where they've made small snide remarks, but I'm working with limited resources, as I only have screenshots that I've saved beforehand. All in all, the mrpmins have shown a clear bias against me, and honestly, they should not objectively be banning me when they've straight up done worse shit. However, once again, I don't care what they say about me, HOWEVER, they have let people get harassed up until the point they leave the entire server.

3. Toxic mrp chat and admin inaction
Throughout the entire time of the mrp chat being up, the admins, especially the metafriended mrp ones, have done absolutely nothing against the harassment of other users. So much targeted harassment that one of my close friends had to leave the server entirely because the admins did jack shit to stop it, and even aided in letting them get harassed. So first off, the mrp chat fucking hates lrp, like extremely so. I did my part in making sure they got along, and while it is way better now, in the past the admins have shown a large hesitation in making any sort of action against this, or borderline non existent actions. Hell I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who even gets muted for my VERY CLEAR jokes THAT I WOULD STOP if you ASKED. Anyways,
We start off with the harassment right here, as you can tell, oberry obviously knows that this, is indeed, some high tier harassment.
Here it starts to pick up

Then we have a tiny little "erm please stop". Keep in mind, no time outs were handed out, because literally a tiny bit later, they keep fucking doing it.

literally the same fucking person doing it

admins literally bantering during this, not even doing anything.

During all of this, all the other admins quite literally did nothing. Some might have been offline, but seriously, fucking nothing was done despite all this shit happening. How come its only an issue when jokes are lined up at one of your mrp metafriends, but barely an issue if lrp players are non jokingly harassed and insulted.
Now, with the way the screenshots are, I can understand some people not believing me. If you don't, mrp literally has all the logs you need, take a look at what the admins did to take action. Now this doesn't include mish and tay, they have both actually done shit, which you'll see in my second section here. A little bit of backstory, a friend of mine plays on mrp a lot. However, everytime they do any sort of funny joke, mrp players start fucking malding like children in the mrp chat about how much they hate them. This is no doubt harassment, and to prove it I will bring up one of the biggest points of this shit right now. (Name of my friend will be blacked out just for their sake, I know mrp players will try to attack me and them after this)

Here we have o_berry not punishing any of them for targeting harassment towards my friend, but instead trying to punish them in-game. Now it isn't that bad here, I can forgive oberry for this as they might just be trying to help calm them down, but it just gets fucking worse

It just gets worse, no warns are even given out by oberry or ANY of the mrp admins.
Here we even have an example of someone literally ADMITTING to a rulebreak, but no admin doing anything against it too

Finally, tay and mish steps in to stop this shit

Best part of all this, despite me only making harmless jokes, I'm the only one who seems to suffer any sort of punishment for this shit. I can't even think how these admins think that this isn't ban worthy, but me making fat jokes at tay (WHICH IS WHAT WE DO ALL THE FUCKING TIME ITS HOW WE TALK) is somehow harassing players. Now yeah, I admit to ragebait, but I do it in a manner where I come off as a fucking clown, I do it only to make jokes, and the only person I really do hope to make fun of is literally myself. This is a far cry from this nonstop harassment directed to my friend with a bunch of the mrp members. I feel like they're only safe because the mrpmins are vouching for them. Anyways, it doesn't stop here as my friend still gets harassed time and time again in the mrp chat.

and finally, after all this fucking harassment towards them, they had to leave the server. The admins did fucking nothing to stop this, and all I could do was try and help them and tell tay as they got constantly harassed. I don't give a fuck about me getting banned, nor do I care if they insulted me, but they went as far as to ignore actual targeted harassment just because the people doing it are their mrp metafriends. Anyways that's all I'd really like to talk about in this section, there's piles of harassment screenshots I have and honestly, it's insane how bad they've let it slide.

4. Final statement
Look, I understand getting banned for ragebaiting. I'm a prick, and while it is all jokes, I don't do it with the intent of taking someone down, these admins have done far worse in my eyes, and even let a close friend basically get bullied off the discord server. If you want to play discord admin and smite me down, sure, but take an actual active effort on everyone, not just someone you hate like me. This server has been devolving in the past few months, and honestly, I've been the one trying to keep it alive. However, I can tell that my time here is past, as none of the admins were ever here at the start, all the new ones have it out for me (including admin abusing me on mrp (I'm not going into it here however as this is discord only)). I feel like my ban was complete personal bias, and if you can't agree with that, you can at least agree with this targeted harassment shit needs to stop. I've let this shit slide too, I feel like its my fault a lot of the older players are leaving, and honestly it doesn't seem like it's ever going to get better. I'm going to take genetics probably to another better server where the admins don't ban me over personal issues and let their friends directly attack people who I know.

tldr: John Space gets banned for being a troll, admins do worse, mrp do worse and they don't get any repercussions for their actions and shit needs to change.

Stay funky, John Space out.

John Space

One hell of a essay btw good luck.

oBerry

Just a heads up, I am at work between 12am-8am. I am not actively reading every chat message. Often times I think of something to say, say it, then close the app because I am at work. Or I read a message, respond to it, don't read others, and close it.

I understand that this may appear like me allowing harassment. I am sorry that it appears that way. Please understand that it is not my intention to allow harassment, I'm simply just not actually moderating the chat fully. Each of your screenshots capture me while I am at work.

Also understand that while I might be chatting, I might not be at home moderating the servers. It is possible and common for an admin to be active on the discord but for various reasons not be logged in. Especially to both servers at once.

EDIT:

I'd also like to point out that you left out the times where I told MRP players to stop dogging on LRP, which has happened more than once. You can freely go through my chat message history. I have taken actions against people being toxic to LRP, not just toxic about MRP. Also, I do remember the "fat joke" thing, which I was very clear on it being not a serious warning and was just banter.

Icepick

Erisia

Peanut post again and im going to lose my marbles.

The Real Horselady

you forgot to censor my name in one of them silly

taydeo

This is a combined conclusion among: Icepick, Miiish, and Taydeo.

We do not condone harassment, bullying, metafriending, preferential treatment, biases or anything akin to what is listed.

To provide a clear reason to why you were banned, it was for "rage baiting" / being unnecessarily crude and hostile towards MRP players and players in general.

You were warned, muted, and told to tone down and stop this behavior multiple times by many of the staff members, including privately by Tay. Despite this you continued to overly share your opinions on players and overall community in the chats of the Discord, not limited to only Taydeo like you said you did.

The ban placed on you by Ze_SpyRo was not solely their decision; this was done with the approval of both Taydeo and Miiish and would not have been placed otherwise.

Adding onto this, there are no "MRPmins", as we all admin both servers. While there is, or now was a plan to increase MRP player count when LRP was popular, we are now making efforts to even out the player counts of both servers. And while each of the admins have an opinion on all the players on Funky Station, the consensus is that we appreciate the work you have done as a maintainer, but we can't always endorse your actions on the Discord while communicating with other server members or how you act in-game.

You acting in this way when you were a maintainer seems like, to a normal server member, an official endorsement of this sort of behavior by the Funky team. You were still seen as a maintainer even when you requested the removal of your maintainer status. Taydeo has used this as an excuse to prevent your ban from the Discord, and when faced with the clear consequences of what would happen you said you would “just keep doing it again.” While we were confused on what to do previously, now we know that this sort of behavior is just not acceptable.

One of the admins, Fennec, was indeed being overly harsh and blunt in their ahelps. So much so that they received 3 Admin complaints in a day.

Fennec was told to tone back their ahelps and notes multiple times. After we saw the complaints, and the ahelp that you provided in the complaint, we decided to revoke their admin status. We consider this situation to be dealt with and resolved. If you feel otherwise please let us know through the proper channels.

While it was not shown publicly, the "harassment" in this scenario was dealt with. Staff Members were DM'ed privately by Taydeo.

Ze_Spyro, while they're allowed to hold their opinions on people in the servers, should not be participating in this kind of discourse publicly, especially while they are an admin. Though at the time of the first three screenshots, Ze_Spyro was not yet an admin.

Audit logs show that Ze_SpyRo has also not deleted any of their own messages.

Admins who continue to let their negative feelings about server members be known will be punished over how they decide to let their opinion be known, and how frequently. We will be talking to Staff about this to ensure that no such incidents occur in the future.

While there is a sizable admin team, we can not always be active on both Discord and/or on the server.

Many people were expressing their distaste with how the player you mention was acting in-character. This is allowed under most circumstances as long as they do not incite harassment or bullying towards the player, or get hostile with their messaging (for example, saying the player should be banned or should not try to play a certain role again).

The conversation you brought up did get to a point where admin intervention was needed, but due to it being late at night (₂ AM EST) most of us were asleep, or at work due to time-zones. The only admin that was half-present was the at-the-time Trialmin oBerry, who has stated that they were working a night shift and were not paying full attention to what was being said.

Upon oBerry seeing what the conversation devolved into, they decided to ping both Tay and Miiish to ask how they should proceed, and Miiish and Tay told the people to quit and let staff know if there are any issues rather than "shitflinging" as Miiish put it.

We are in agreement that the messages saying that they are wasting oxygen and that they'd meta-grudge them should've been removed and the person punished, but unfortunately we did not see them and were not swift enough to take action. We are continuing to add to the admin team in order to minimize the periods when no admins are active.

Keep in mind that we are volunteers, and do our best to try and be present when these issues arise. We appreciate you bringing these issues to our attention, and want to ensure that our primary goal with the Discord is making sure speech between players is kept fair and friendly. A significant amount of effort goes on in the background goes unseen by regular players, to ensure this is pursued.

One action we are taking to remedy this is the formal inclusion of community moderators to make sure this goal is met. This is a major priority for us to remedy as quickly as possible.