Post by vehiconlover on May 20, 2018 19:35:47 GMT
In 1959, it was published in Spain the Law of public order. A law that was the germen of the Tribunal of public order. Which punished harshly any activity that were “perturbing” the public order. It gave the authority and its agents the right to judge and condemn anyone they considered was doing, was intending to do, or had once done something to disturb the public order. This happened during the dictatorship of Franco, a Spanish dictator.
Now, this was just an introduction. As this was being studied in my history class when I came across this information. It immediately reminded me of the Administration team of this website. Transformers Galaxy. Now, at least in my experience, when your way of governing a site makes people think of a dictatorship such as that one, I believe some things are very wrong.
The reason my mind made that connection is the following.:
The 02/19/2018 at around 3am I received a message from Lord bob. The true prime. On discord. Informing me I had been banned and Including these words:
“primarily due to the attitude you have displayed to other players especially those you have found yourself disagreeing with on more than one occasion. You may still roleplay on the site, however any OOC issues that occur in the progress could result in a permanent site ban.”
My reaction was bad. Mainly because while my attitude has not always been the best it had been at least two months since I had done something like what i was being accused of. Before anyone tries to pin on me that I don’t tell the truth let me tell you. I am guilty of arguing, arguing loudly, insulting, being an enabler for arguments, and having a bad attitude. I am not doing this because i think i am innocent, but because of the conditions under which i was banned. The time at which i was banned.
I asked for reasons and I was informed that a group of four users had been banned at the same time as me for being considered toxic. Which is a word that gets thrown around too easily. I was not toxic. I was conflictive, and so were the other people. Rikkmaery, Ulti, and Wheelspin. My username at the time was Influx.
The next thing I did was to ask for a list of my transgressions, which i was then told did not exist. This was one of the first things that lead me to believe something else was going on. Technically speaking then i had been banned upon an agreement, a vote i discovered later among the administrators, without having any examples of the situations that had led them to the decision of banning me.They did not have a list nor examples of my transgressions. Nor mine, nor anyone else’s. But i did not ask about the others.
After this I kept asking, prodding. What i was told, taking bits and pieces from several stories is:
For X reason, the administration team had a “meeting” and considered they needed to refresh the server by getting rid of people with toxic behaviours. Getting rid of them so they did not get to be toxic again. There was a vote. As far as I know my name was suggested at the end of it. As far as I know and assuming they told the truth, Redoptics and Vating vouched for me. Skyspray and Gearchange didn’t vote, I do not know about Astrinal, I do not know about Sperk/Sparkflare and Shadowstrike/The Lord Bob. There’s probably wrong information in there.
My problem and my point is that I was banned, as well as Wheelspin to put an example, after at least two or so months of absolutely no offenses. Mainly because at the time I had once left the discord server and the site. And I was only back, having told Vating and Skyspray i would not be roleplaying on the site. Only to hang out because I like the place, and to fish for people to have 1x1 roleplays with. In case anyone brings up the point of what i was doing there in the first place if i was not actively roleplaying on the site. That is the reason why. So i was banned for no reason. Or when the Administration team suddenly imposed the Law of Public Order, lifted the ban hammer and shoved us out.
Allow me to say, this is not a respectable way of banning anybody. If you, for X reason failed to punish them the last time they committed an offense, you do not ban them whenever you want all of a sudden. You wait until they break the rules again, and then, and only then, you ban them. Had they done that, I would not get to be here in the first place because I would not have a statement to stand on.
This is an abuse of power. Mainly because from the information i digged for, I was banned because someone up there does not like me. Not because of any offenses. Regardless, I am not here to be allowed back.No.
I am writing this document because should this situation be left alone, the administration team will repeat it whenever they dislike someone. Like a dictator who punishes somebody because they angered or annoyed them. Because they can. It has happened to myself, to Wheelspin, to Ulti and to Rikkmaery. And regardless of if we deserved or not to be banned. The action was executed wrongly. Now I do not want to see it repeated to anybody. There is a reason I have not left this alone, and it is that it is unfair to the user. Because playing by these rules, the Administration can dig up any behaviour they consider disturbs the public order of the server and the site, and they can use it to kick anyone they do not like, or get along with, out of the server. When that is not correct, right or ethical.
You, reader, can judge it by yourself. Your Administration team is unfair, acting in unethical and ways to the users. They abuse their power by banning people by using past offenses they failed to punish at the time as a reason. Digging them up. These people do not deserve, or should be allowed to execute and use their power in this way. Because by that logic, there will be a permanent fear of doing anything that angers them. While it might work to keep the server clean from any kind of conflict, it will only drive users away. As people who were treated unfairly anywhere tend to tell others. The word will spread and the site will not get new members. And the few ones who are there, will most likely be driven away by this behaviour from the people in charge. Moreover, they have failed to notify the users when they commit an infraction to their rule system. So when someone is banned it comes as a surprise without giving the user a chance to rectify their actions. And they are inconsistent about their punishment. My proof for this is that Ulti is back in the server, why?. Because he has friends. Other banned users were also allowed back in the past. This is not to say he should be banned again, Mainly because he was banned unfairly in the first place.
There are solutions to this.
There are steps to take towards a better and healthier administration and therefore a site people enjoy playing in, and spread the word about with good news.
If you’ve read up to this point, thank you. Thank you for your consideration, I hope this is helpful to this dying site. In some way. I hope change comes its way. This will be deleted. And it’ll be posted again. If you Admins really want the best for the site. If you REALLY do. This document will not be deleted. This account will not be deleted. You will do what is right for the site.
Have a good day, reader.
A Vehicon Lover.
Now, this was just an introduction. As this was being studied in my history class when I came across this information. It immediately reminded me of the Administration team of this website. Transformers Galaxy. Now, at least in my experience, when your way of governing a site makes people think of a dictatorship such as that one, I believe some things are very wrong.
The reason my mind made that connection is the following.:
The 02/19/2018 at around 3am I received a message from Lord bob. The true prime. On discord. Informing me I had been banned and Including these words:
“primarily due to the attitude you have displayed to other players especially those you have found yourself disagreeing with on more than one occasion. You may still roleplay on the site, however any OOC issues that occur in the progress could result in a permanent site ban.”
My reaction was bad. Mainly because while my attitude has not always been the best it had been at least two months since I had done something like what i was being accused of. Before anyone tries to pin on me that I don’t tell the truth let me tell you. I am guilty of arguing, arguing loudly, insulting, being an enabler for arguments, and having a bad attitude. I am not doing this because i think i am innocent, but because of the conditions under which i was banned. The time at which i was banned.
I asked for reasons and I was informed that a group of four users had been banned at the same time as me for being considered toxic. Which is a word that gets thrown around too easily. I was not toxic. I was conflictive, and so were the other people. Rikkmaery, Ulti, and Wheelspin. My username at the time was Influx.
The next thing I did was to ask for a list of my transgressions, which i was then told did not exist. This was one of the first things that lead me to believe something else was going on. Technically speaking then i had been banned upon an agreement, a vote i discovered later among the administrators, without having any examples of the situations that had led them to the decision of banning me.They did not have a list nor examples of my transgressions. Nor mine, nor anyone else’s. But i did not ask about the others.
After this I kept asking, prodding. What i was told, taking bits and pieces from several stories is:
For X reason, the administration team had a “meeting” and considered they needed to refresh the server by getting rid of people with toxic behaviours. Getting rid of them so they did not get to be toxic again. There was a vote. As far as I know my name was suggested at the end of it. As far as I know and assuming they told the truth, Redoptics and Vating vouched for me. Skyspray and Gearchange didn’t vote, I do not know about Astrinal, I do not know about Sperk/Sparkflare and Shadowstrike/The Lord Bob. There’s probably wrong information in there.
My problem and my point is that I was banned, as well as Wheelspin to put an example, after at least two or so months of absolutely no offenses. Mainly because at the time I had once left the discord server and the site. And I was only back, having told Vating and Skyspray i would not be roleplaying on the site. Only to hang out because I like the place, and to fish for people to have 1x1 roleplays with. In case anyone brings up the point of what i was doing there in the first place if i was not actively roleplaying on the site. That is the reason why. So i was banned for no reason. Or when the Administration team suddenly imposed the Law of Public Order, lifted the ban hammer and shoved us out.
Allow me to say, this is not a respectable way of banning anybody. If you, for X reason failed to punish them the last time they committed an offense, you do not ban them whenever you want all of a sudden. You wait until they break the rules again, and then, and only then, you ban them. Had they done that, I would not get to be here in the first place because I would not have a statement to stand on.
This is an abuse of power. Mainly because from the information i digged for, I was banned because someone up there does not like me. Not because of any offenses. Regardless, I am not here to be allowed back.No.
I am writing this document because should this situation be left alone, the administration team will repeat it whenever they dislike someone. Like a dictator who punishes somebody because they angered or annoyed them. Because they can. It has happened to myself, to Wheelspin, to Ulti and to Rikkmaery. And regardless of if we deserved or not to be banned. The action was executed wrongly. Now I do not want to see it repeated to anybody. There is a reason I have not left this alone, and it is that it is unfair to the user. Because playing by these rules, the Administration can dig up any behaviour they consider disturbs the public order of the server and the site, and they can use it to kick anyone they do not like, or get along with, out of the server. When that is not correct, right or ethical.
You, reader, can judge it by yourself. Your Administration team is unfair, acting in unethical and ways to the users. They abuse their power by banning people by using past offenses they failed to punish at the time as a reason. Digging them up. These people do not deserve, or should be allowed to execute and use their power in this way. Because by that logic, there will be a permanent fear of doing anything that angers them. While it might work to keep the server clean from any kind of conflict, it will only drive users away. As people who were treated unfairly anywhere tend to tell others. The word will spread and the site will not get new members. And the few ones who are there, will most likely be driven away by this behaviour from the people in charge. Moreover, they have failed to notify the users when they commit an infraction to their rule system. So when someone is banned it comes as a surprise without giving the user a chance to rectify their actions. And they are inconsistent about their punishment. My proof for this is that Ulti is back in the server, why?. Because he has friends. Other banned users were also allowed back in the past. This is not to say he should be banned again, Mainly because he was banned unfairly in the first place.
There are solutions to this.
There are steps to take towards a better and healthier administration and therefore a site people enjoy playing in, and spread the word about with good news.
- 1st. Remove the current administration (Those who have abused their power in the first place and are non essential for X reasons), those who have abused their power should be made to step down. As it has been demonstrated that they can’t be trusted with power.
- 2nd. Replace them with active people who have demonstrated they deserve an opportunity at Administration. If no one meets these conditions wait until someone does or open a thread for people to submit applications once they meet certain requisites.
- 3rd Start advertising the site through banners, social network, and discord servers. Preferably during the summer.
- 4th. Redact a new updated set of rules on both the site and discord server.
- 5th. When you ban a user, first collect screenshots and evidence of their infractions, make a list, so when they ask why they have been banned they can see it is a just decision based on their recent behaviour
- 6th Be consistent and strict with your bans, rules and punishments.
- 7th Keep your admins in check, ask the users about their behaviour, conduct surveys for suggestions on what could be improved and how.
If you’ve read up to this point, thank you. Thank you for your consideration, I hope this is helpful to this dying site. In some way. I hope change comes its way. This will be deleted. And it’ll be posted again. If you Admins really want the best for the site. If you REALLY do. This document will not be deleted. This account will not be deleted. You will do what is right for the site.
Have a good day, reader.
A Vehicon Lover.