Wyrd wrote:[list]
I do respect your decision, but just like with how I feel about American government, I don't necessarily agree with everything within it.
I'm not staff, so I don't know all the details naturally, but having been an active and involved member {just check my ask} of the community for the past year or so, and I do have a good {yet still reserved} view of what's been going on. And with the latest event, everyone knows everything, which is a bit much {like someone getting that journal you wrote when you were in sixth grade, it's too much information to be given to everyone even though it was meant to clear the air and remove doubts}.Hiccup wrote:I recently heard about this huge mess involving certain people and "illegal" jbds. I remember I told certain users they could rp illegal beans just for fun, as long as they didn't make it public and kept it to themselves. I know it's not really fair, but I told them it was ok, so stop being so harsh about it. I don't mean to sound awful right now, but staff, come on, aren't you taking things too far? Let them keep their beans, geez. It's not like they're breaking the law.
Coming from a user who wasn't involved and was immediately {mostly} infuriated with the way the situation was handled, I'm again slightly confused with this. While how the staff went about with the bannings was wrong in itself, they still went against the rules you created for the species and for its members, so the bannings themselves are justified. Playing favorites or keeping information is what got us into a mess in the first shut-down back a few months ago, and playing favorites in a situation like this is very likely to lead to another mess, even with the species closed down.
On a first note everyone does in fact not know everything on this situation, the violation in privacy by posting the ban publicly was not the only thing that set things off. It was false accusations and titles set without any of the "stiff" proof they would honestly need. A conversation between two friends late at night is not strong proof, while some things are true, far more have been assumed. Not only that but the other party of the conversation misread some of the things they had reported and had things added to this title that had never even happened at all.
In regards to this situation, almost all of the rules, if looked at closely, were not broken. The rules set up as broken were all in application to existing jbds, the only rule valid would have been "don't steal". But, is it really theft if the owner of both the lines and species knows and doesn't mind? No existing jbds were taken into or used in the IR, rendering the other rules invalid. Even if a rule was broken by creating an illegal, that was known and not minded by the one who created all of jbds years ago, therefor it was not even the "theft" of lines in which they have been banned for.
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