Eternity RPC Board
So, I'm home sick and I can finally type this all out. Just what I wanted to do while recovering (sarcasm), but I did make a promise that I haven't been able to keep because of the busyness of my work life and the fact that I've moved four times this month. So, on to the business at hand: Lom's Ban.
Lom has been my friend for quite some time. He has views that some of us see as controversial, and while that is okay it is definitely not okay to berate, demean or disparage others. He has quite a history of doing just that. I have stood up for him as an admin on this forum several times. Oertha has done so before as well. On the old forum, Flo defended him as well. You can only defend and excuse someone for so long before you have no reason or justification to do so anymore. We have a storied history with Lom and giving him some very verbal warning over comments made on the forum and in discord. Some of them are inflammatory and some of them are slanderous. For example here is a comment in discord made by him. Guys and Gals, you just don't say things like that about people.
On December 13th, 2017 Lom was official given his first warning for sparking an inflammatory conversation in chat. While I am not familiar with the exact details of said conversation, so far as I am aware he respected the decision. This conversation was between Nents, Brum and himself so they may be more familiar with the details of it.
On June 7th, 2018 Lom was given his second and final official warning. This was for an exchange between Flo and himself. Lom made a comment that he intended as a joke, however, Flo took offense to the comment and confronted Lom about it. Lom, seeing Flo's comment as what I can only imagine something he viewed as a soft spot, begins to get defensive about the comment itself, begin to bait and troll Flo, and among other things refers to Flo as a "liberal snowflake." I am working to find this in the chat log and obtain a screenshot, but as I remember the situation it devolved into a clear violation of our community rules.
There have been several comments of inflammatory and derogatory nature since, in-between, and before these warnings and all of those incidences received verbal warnings from either Lines, Oertha, Blac, or myself. Some of these were considered homophobic and some were anti-semetic in nature. There were other issues that date back to pre-2016 that we "wiped off of his slate" as he promised to behave himself.
Now for the big cookie, the ban. Lomarre was officially given a ban from the discord and the forums for an incident in which he was trying to break the chat filter. I cannot give you a screenshot of the actual event because the comment itself was hard deleted from the chat. However, the comment itself did contain the N-word. That is utterly unacceptable, even if the comment was a jest. We do NOT tolerate racist or bigoted language on this forum, you are all mature enough to understand that is not okay.
The handling of the situation was admittedly ghastly, but unlike you all seem to believe there was no conspiracy to ban Lom. While we did take some time to deliberate on the length of the ban (mostly because fuck guys, we're busy), despite having set ban lengths in our community rules, we did decide to ban him for one month. Why didn't we follow our established guidelines on bans? Because honestly, we really didn't expect someone to use racist language in this community. The decision to ban him was unanimous, and Blac issued the ban. Blac did reignite the conversation after a few days, but the intent to punish the behavior did NOT come out of the blue.
As to Ikar's list of situations in which we warned Lom verbally or officially here are some screenshots of the comments, just so we can clear up the fact that we are not lying, or making anything up.
The Hollywood Comment
The Gun Ban Comment
The Black Lives Matter Comment
The Libtards Comment
I can attempt to provide further proof if you would all like. I know this isn't a huge long explanation, but please ask questions and I will attempt to answer them in a semi-timely manner, work and home life permitting.
As for our admin team, Blac and Flo have both resigned. So for the remaining admins, it is Lines, Ikar, Oertha and myself.
To Rom: I'll make sure to post the pictures of our chat log when I get the chance and I'm not leaking mucus out of my nose or coughing up a storm.
Lom has been my friend for quite some time. He has views that some of us see as controversial, and while that is okay it is definitely not okay to berate, demean or disparage others. He has quite a history of doing just that. I have stood up for him as an admin on this forum several times. Oertha has done so before as well. On the old forum, Flo defended him as well. You can only defend and excuse someone for so long before you have no reason or justification to do so anymore. We have a storied history with Lom and giving him some very verbal warning over comments made on the forum and in discord. Some of them are inflammatory and some of them are slanderous. For example here is a comment in discord made by him. Guys and Gals, you just don't say things like that about people.
On December 13th, 2017 Lom was official given his first warning for sparking an inflammatory conversation in chat. While I am not familiar with the exact details of said conversation, so far as I am aware he respected the decision. This conversation was between Nents, Brum and himself so they may be more familiar with the details of it.
On June 7th, 2018 Lom was given his second and final official warning. This was for an exchange between Flo and himself. Lom made a comment that he intended as a joke, however, Flo took offense to the comment and confronted Lom about it. Lom, seeing Flo's comment as what I can only imagine something he viewed as a soft spot, begins to get defensive about the comment itself, begin to bait and troll Flo, and among other things refers to Flo as a "liberal snowflake." I am working to find this in the chat log and obtain a screenshot, but as I remember the situation it devolved into a clear violation of our community rules.
There have been several comments of inflammatory and derogatory nature since, in-between, and before these warnings and all of those incidences received verbal warnings from either Lines, Oertha, Blac, or myself. Some of these were considered homophobic and some were anti-semetic in nature. There were other issues that date back to pre-2016 that we "wiped off of his slate" as he promised to behave himself.
Now for the big cookie, the ban. Lomarre was officially given a ban from the discord and the forums for an incident in which he was trying to break the chat filter. I cannot give you a screenshot of the actual event because the comment itself was hard deleted from the chat. However, the comment itself did contain the N-word. That is utterly unacceptable, even if the comment was a jest. We do NOT tolerate racist or bigoted language on this forum, you are all mature enough to understand that is not okay.
The handling of the situation was admittedly ghastly, but unlike you all seem to believe there was no conspiracy to ban Lom. While we did take some time to deliberate on the length of the ban (mostly because fuck guys, we're busy), despite having set ban lengths in our community rules, we did decide to ban him for one month. Why didn't we follow our established guidelines on bans? Because honestly, we really didn't expect someone to use racist language in this community. The decision to ban him was unanimous, and Blac issued the ban. Blac did reignite the conversation after a few days, but the intent to punish the behavior did NOT come out of the blue.
As to Ikar's list of situations in which we warned Lom verbally or officially here are some screenshots of the comments, just so we can clear up the fact that we are not lying, or making anything up.
The Hollywood Comment
The Gun Ban Comment
The Black Lives Matter Comment
The Libtards Comment
I can attempt to provide further proof if you would all like. I know this isn't a huge long explanation, but please ask questions and I will attempt to answer them in a semi-timely manner, work and home life permitting.
As for our admin team, Blac and Flo have both resigned. So for the remaining admins, it is Lines, Ikar, Oertha and myself.
To Rom: I'll make sure to post the pictures of our chat log when I get the chance and I'm not leaking mucus out of my nose or coughing up a storm.
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