#discussion

It hasn't been more than 2 hours

there was one for the longest time in his server too

I will say

I don't wanna say the names but there were people who did do somewhat vip or sub reqs ye

oh yea that

I'm struggling to understand how, if a payment option increased chances for all viewers of a stream, then doesn't that kind of nullify chances for everyone since everyone is getting that treatment?

People are obviously blissfully unaware of everything

stuff like that

did multiple mods actually significantly abuse it?

I think it’s more because of that nature of how Tricipital’s weight thing worked that made it less severe in my eyes. I think with the clarification hopefully it’s clear that finances shouldn’t interact with Mod Stuff at all. Severity still matters to me (like paying for vs what he actually did)

I agree that the rule has been circumvented in a way with how people could have access to expedited request systems via being a twitch sub or youtube member, both paid memberships that go to the content creator, but tricipital's model was so much more direct in my opinion. I'm glad to see that there is change barring money from being involved in requests entirely but the fact that it had to take one person exploiting and pushing the constraints as much as possible to reach there makes me uncomfortable

The tri Case is definitely a lot more nuanced

but calling that a grey zone is still very generous

the grey zone was just that it increased chances for all viewers of a stream if someone donated to increase everyone's weight, not exactly pay for a send

Well clearly exploiting grey zones is akin to breaking the guideline. People dancing on the edge of a cliff shouldn't be upset when they fall into it. (edited)

Didn't help that big V had something similar too before

There were so many grey zones

Have I been living under a rock? Not asking money for level requests as a mod seems like a rule that existed since day 1 as far as I know

But thats wishful thinking alast (edited)

the community just wants to feel heard on stuff

including the very much near 100% confirmation of it being an accident if anything

Let's be real plenty of people abused it for years cuz it was a grey area nobody clarified

no shade but that request system was really not it and im surprised it even took this long for something bad to come out of it

highkey considering this is already being brought up to rob

i personally stand about where u do too

Yeah IDK

oh dear lord this is scummy

Why does your token have "bitch" in portuguese all capslocked

I'm of the personal opinion that YraX's demotion was justifiable for reasons that I think mbed perfectly expressed on the day of, but I echo others' concerns about getting demoted without much notice on what accounts you may follow. I've been made aware of the controversies regarding tricipital and saw how his forms of taking level requests involved paying money to increase chances/stakes and while I get that it's not directly pay -> send it made a lot of people and especially myself uncomfortable, because it feels like a complete exploit of things that were not said about rule 6 at the time. I'm glad to see that there was a rule update to address these matters, but I find it mildly infuriating how one individual can result in an entire policy change (i have not seen tricipital address this behavior in this server) but a lack of awareness of followed accounts from an individual who has admittedly been through the ringer receiving a demotion is quite the brutal comparison. personally speaking I think exploiting a rule to try and squeeze more money out of request systems is even more scummy than following an NSFW/inappropriate account that someone has to go out of their way to see.

If I ever get a scam DM I’m using that

Lemme try

LOL

😭

LMFAO

Just take the Token bro dcABrImEeoDSQjcHj3RTboPUTA5v1gAUBBDTl74avFHvADjGsbf32tLh8Aa5F2Oi

With the things he said

I wouldnt expect that haha

you wont regret this 🩷

ofc

Sure lemme turn the antivirus off it kinda sucks

if his badge weren't tied he would've

Not even kidding

Like literally there just not being anything new to communicate

I expected him to say "fuck yall <slurs>" and leave

in a way

he kind of did tbh

if you guys are open to hearing them

do you want to join my modded terraria world btw

I do have some thoughts i want to share regarding the recent incidences

he couldve doubled down

Low-key

I feel like post Viprin tho not much has happened

i dont think swtcyn could have done anything worse after being called out in this chat than what he did 😭

Worst would be archiving the chat and leaking it

well other than yrax but there are more now

😭 🙏

as being much less communicative on the recent issues that have transpired than it actually was

He DEADASS left in worst faith possible

😭

people think swtcyn left in good faith which is the last thing i would want the community to think

yrax demote was still so brutal that im so not surprised ppl dont want to apply too

yeah i think it ends up hurting the image of the mod team more in the long run

I dont even blame them NGL

cause i dont want this to be a "unfair demote" to the eyes of the community, im getting so tired of seeing all this mod drama, not only in public but in my private spaces, seeing my friends not want to be mod and stuff and its geting a bit much sflkhsjf

Hope he'll make the right decision

He'll make the final call on what to call it

Its rather like

Hey btw this guy is homophobic

Yeah

But also unprofessional seeming too

Havent played a plat in hours, dead mode

wait what is that plat thing i mentioned

but yeah i definitely think that there should be some transparency on this case specifically with swtcyn cause idk

😭

wait, they exist?

because again I find this absurd (edited)

I feel like people want everything and nothing at the same time all the time 😭

Tbh I really would like to even publicly respond to this and call swtcyn out

robtop wont demote you because he forgets what a plat is 90% of the time

right

and killed my dog

You caused me to trip today (edited)

Smth prolly

what Did i Do

I already got asked about swtcyn

platformers shouldnt exist

I also hate chloe

😭

i hate chloe

I hate chloe

anyone else have anything they would like to confess about their opinions on any existing minority groups?

Yeah

its so much seperate drama happening all at once that I can’t blame the public for thinking they are connected

so its not being lied to

(it is admittedly)

well this is just misinfo cus she was given the option to announce it as a demotion over a resign

or generally that communication is still an issue

including for resigns

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What if it gets out or a mod responds to this

it will just be "x has been demoted from Advisor"

But lowkey

With Mod -> Advisor change we will most likely stop giving demote reasons altogether

Important context

The decision is up to Rob ultimately

Bring it up with what was said here too

And Rob too ig

ye fair

Can see what others think whenever they wake up 😭

ppl will believe every resignation less and will assume worse for every one coming after

2026 is just an extremely crazy year for a mod team

now

I've seen a couple people in Metro compare this to the YraX situation as in "We don't know what's going behind closed doors so maybe SwtCyn was also demoted unfairly"

^^

Stand your ground, call that shit out

I'd rather be honest about the situation than be passive about it and let information leak through the grapevine. The mod team has come onto fire yet again for lack of perceived honesty and controversy regarding how rules are enforced with the team

And this would give a definitive stance in conjunction with ausk explaining it

Nah we gotta show ppl "Yo we ban for this shit if it makes sense"

agreeing with infra a lot here

Which idt will helo anything

Hm lowkey

I fully understand wanting individuals to leave the team on their own terms, but quite frankly with the heinous shit SwtCyn said, and how uncomfortable he made virtually everyone, it stands to reason that he would have been automatically removed anyway. I do not think SwtCyn should be given liberty just because he took himself out before that could happen. Writing it down as an actual demotion would also establish a precedent that this simply cannot happen again

Ngl

Sorry buddy had to lmao

It should be a demotion if he is talking like that

Ryder: "You know I don't actualy feel tired so ima just wing it" Ryder the next day:

As in all demotions would just be said as a resignation

well publicly

it feels like that fr

We stopped doing that entirely iirc

"You can't fire me because I quit"

i dont think it needs to be specific but i do agree it should be called a demotion for breaking guidelines

i think so too

It is their choice to speak on it but that doesn’t give me much hope of change

EXACTLY

idk but I feel like this one shouldve been a publicly addressed demotion

“Due to reasons that I don’t feel necessary to speak upon”

Can i be brutally honest about something

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so yeah 😭

Its absolutely not normal

Yeah pls this isn’t normal I promise 😭 🙏

I hope new mods don’t see this as a normal thing I promise this is not common. Just really crazy it’s all happening at once

You know I don’t actually feel tired

u gotta get some sleep 😭 🙏 (edited)

It is a bizarre chain of events

dudeeee

spidey sense ahh

5:40 rn

The bladder sensed danger

I stayed around to moderate incase it got out of hand and observe

so many differing individual instances too

😭

he had to piss

bro ryder why are u awake at like 5 am

This time I literally didn’t know

im highkey baffled at the course of events that transpired so suddenly

Like at least when stuff happens I feel like I can at least get an idea of where to start

understandably so

Its really just unprecedented like 😭

Hopefully it doesn’t happen again

if anyone needs that always willing to help 🫡

Yeah, especially with it being completely unheard of here I’m glad you brought it up with us basically immediately

yeah i dont see a world where this couldve been spun into a harmless instance

if u need anything i just want to say that my dms are always open, always willing to talk with people or let ppl vent out stuff as I know how important it can be 🧡

The world has people like that but crazy when it’s so close to you

😬

thats the most insane part of it

yeah you cant just confess to another mod you have no respect for someone challenging that view who is also a part of it 😭

This

Good thing about us all being adults here is in theory we should know what to (and not to) say and when to keep our opinions to ourselves.

Insane typo kms

but if it doesnt inflict harm on others or doesnt stem from the lack of acceptance then i also share the sentiment that ur fine on not caring much for this stuff, since obviously there was a degree of no tolerance for either instance in the earlier discussion (edited)

Yeah

this goes both ways because id hate knowing someone on the team secretly doesnt accept who i am, it is indisputably a very destructive opinion to not only hold but to also confess to another mod

Its okay to share different viewpoints and holding a bit of a different attitude, something like the Ausk thing is fairly split here and taking one side or another is fine as its more nuanced. With swtcyn I get where u were coming from but overall as u said yourself its just a terrible look and really doesn't match well with both the community and the Mod Team as a whole while those opinions are also just incredibly harmful

Just try not to harm people

I think you’re fine personally, I think the Ausk situation is a bit more nuanced especially compared to swtcyn. Coming from I felt the biggest issue with swtcyn was him deciding to out another Mod in such an uncomfortable position by saying that. I’d much rather him keep it to himself and it goes for anyone who may share the views to me

That is true

I honestly wanna say that I don't wanna stay in a position where I am being secretly hated (in case I am) for defending ausk (which im still standing for) and not caring about swtcyn's views, about last one especially I should've thought better cause the concern is very valid especially if we are talking about a mod team where big chunk of people are LGBT, so it wasn't very good of me to say that, thus I apologize.

or modchat gamenight waittttt

Nobody express any opinions for 90 days please

We need a timeout

Who woulda thought

💀

HAHAHA

Sweet sin

Sometimes its good to be away from discord

Jesus christ dude

Ye

Havent blocked anyone

Not necessarily blocked

yea they did

They probs just removed everyone

😭

lmao

almost good but already the first sentence that he said was super out of pocket

no i was the same when i read that

LMAO

Im just baffled how they hid this shit for years (edited)

like jesus christ

i was

This is an exact representation how I felt

😭

This is the beginning of the convo basically

.

.

makes sense

ah

yea hold on

is there a link to the dm

i cant imagine what it mustve been early this year

not necessarily that you got blocked

if you have no servers in common, this usually shows up

Yeah

not as bad as early this year but generally just a lot more internal

Biggest I don't know about that, but definitely biggest internally

biggest ongoing drama ive seen

.

i told autonick that i'd be gone for 1-2 months and seeing the mod team on fire right now a part of me feels like i was right to exercise this break. yall take care of yourselves please

yea + the all mod related things

that too

wait wtf happened

And the tricipital money bits weight system thing

Understandable

yeah i saw that too

iirc

im not back per se i am "back" in the sense i was shocked to see what is going on and got back in out of curiosity

yea no idea i was away for a bit too until like yesterday

Worst possible timing to come back from the break

YraX, Ausk, and now i see the shit going on with SwtCyn as i momentarily log in here

cloe

hello

Hello 🇨

not sure i know you too much

who are you sorry

Not Correct

Correct

it just loaded I am so cool

This really feels like something people should know but it's not up to me

I can only see this rn cus my wifi sucks im gonna guess its the pizza gif

😭

Yeah I've already gotten a message from someone who was concerned and thought SwtCyn had personal problems (I told them I couldn't discuss this matter)

Yeah it’s whatever

i been away from discord for a few days what the fuck has been happening in the gd community

right now this stuff seems very much so an "in the moment" thing

They really trying to find every way to change things that don't need changing anyway

id give it a little bit once he cools off

Yeah hopefully it just ends there

This but Discord developers

whatever the case is i dont think it matters, not acknowledging the problem at hand and leaving a message completely deflecting the issue then dipping from everywhere is a pretty immature response to everything (edited)

Oh tapping out

thank you discord

Discord just does that sometimes

kinda weird that discord displays it like this

Or maybe they had a script but then why would you have a script for that

i cant even find the example nvm

yea more likely smth else

I mean it seems more likely than going through the effort to go through every individual person and block them

but ive seen this long before private profiles were a thing so i dont think this means a block

private account shows differently hold up

it is a thing

I haven't seen that so

"private account" or smth

that would show with a special message i think ?

i dont think all my 40 mutuals unfreinded them in an hour

which also still kind of feels backwards

That's what I was thinking

oh wait nvm he left my server, maybe he just left everywhere then

not sure how discord profiles work

oh

it could be they set their profile on friends only or smt

thought so but hes in my server still

he unadded everyone and left every server, we have 0 mutuals now and 1 server shared

appears to me too

I believe an inability to view profile, as well as a lack of badges being present means youd be blocked

yeah i cant load parts of their profile either so

I'm pretty sure they blocked me too

I ended up blocking them anyways

I have only removed them from just about everywhere

well I saw that too but idk if that means a block

is that what this means?

I dont care much to resurface this but i just wanna add that swtcyn had just blocked me a bit ago, which feels kind of backwards. wonder if anyone else also got blocked?

I gotta read up on discussion

:3

or make a dynamic graph that auto updates

just update it on gds birthday every year

Maybe I’ll do it tonight then

would be sick to just update it similar time every year

ye update! (edited)

god that message was awful

I’ve been meaning to update it

lowk

@Halapeenyo can we have a 2026 update on this

hi!

Hello Electro

what in the fuck happened in these few hours I closed discord oh my god

Sabbatical

Still waiting for nick to add them someday 😭

sick leave 😭 🙏 🥀

😭

extended leave

bro took a hiatus

i thought it was more recent

oh what thats good shit

it would be sick to see an updated ver of it

does this still exist somewhere

i know agh ❤️ 🥺

wake up and guy is like gone gone (edited)

i mean you can dm them

its crazy to me that this whole thing basically played out while i was asleep oh god i didnt even get to say goodbye noh :c

Bro was helper

Free trial ahh mod

LMFAO

bro 😭

LMAO

He could honestly be anywhere

I can see the text tho, pls low the quality

I found you

Holy quality

LMFAOOO it's worse than I remember

Wait u can actually fill in the dates with this

Saw "JustL3o" in there too lol

sarin with 1 pixel

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You can still find spark though

But it’s the fault of others for not telling me

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I also never asked

Lowkey aura

@AutoNick Do you remember making that one graph of ppl's time as mod that was inspired by the GDS graph

ohh yeah

iSparki

SparksOmega

wait what was your name before, I forgot

Son

bro that would have been an insane violation

LOLLLLL

1.3 seconds im out

LMFAO

LOL

DUDE

It woulda been so funny if the reset your name

😭

right in time for name change as well

I sent like 100+ levels tho

🤣

You wouldn't happen to know something about that

LOL

this was fast but nowhere near the fastest

I be out here pondering 🧐

😅

I’m to classy to be using 🤨

haha

oh i was just sceptical of the names mentioned! (edited)

Oh you right

damn i didnt know sarin made the mod sheet

that made the public realise

haha i think u misclicked the reaction guys @Lia @Ryder

that was the real one

I had some messages I managed to save there

after consulting the days as moderator sheet made by that super handsome guy it appears MrLorenzo, KeiAs & JerkRat were the first repromotions

They fucking killed Skype

Brooo

😭

Yeah

Gone

If Skype was still up I'd be able to find the conversation

The ZenthicAlpha method (edited)

Early 2.0 around the same time I got mod

Idt anyone does

Think Airforce lasted maybe a couple months before getting booted for giving their account to Aspiral to have them verify a level which resulted in Aspiral instead abusing the mod status to send levels

😭

Oh yea

Also one of the fastest demotions I remember was Airforce

Iirc the previous system had no way of resigning or demotions

Yup

But was like inactivity (edited)

since yeah general consensus was u cant get it back

A bunch of people were demoted when the system switched to be in game

or both

Unless you mean first negative demotion?

I think DemonMKer was the first demotion

Rob Buck wasn’t the first demotion 😭

R.E. Promo Tion: first moderator to get the position back after resigning in 1972

I remember this because when I was a reviewer for Jouca people were telling me to push for mod and I was like "I was demoted before so that's not gonna happen"

Nah not disp

disp?

It was basically like you got mod once you not getting it again

Ye repromos didn't happen much at all

but resigning 😭

I only know rob buck was first demotion

demoted in general makes sense

or were demoted in general

LOL

Ah I also just remembered that for the longest time it was the case that you couldn't get mod back if you resigned

In the past I don’t think demotions happened until the in game system existed

bro ryder remembers when the first human died lol

I wonder if resigning was something that was thought of here collectively or someone just brain blasted one day and changed the meta

Ryder is old he might know who the first resign was

GPT says its Rustam so it must be true

I guess so

Like if you didnt want it anymore you wouldn't use it anymore

And couldn't just leave

Rob seeing your advice

Surely for a while they thought they were stuck with the position

rob

elder should become "moderator & level advisor", just moderator doesnt explain the role well enough

Like

my first action as an advisor will be to advise that we should return to being moderators

i have 126 am i okay

demoted to Polarbear

Same for elder advisors

can I be demoted to Modulator please

Never know

every elder getting demoted

Or demotions

us getting advisor will be the most amount of prmotions in a day (edited)

shiiiiiiiiiit true

I got geometry dash advisor today

U gotta catch up

I got Geometry Dash ADVISOR today!

Nick where's the leaderboard mod post dude

I got Geometry Dash ELDER Moderator today!

Something feels wrong about that profile

Amazing idea, one of your best

W

so thats good

Yeah that's valid I do that too sometimes

some of my friends have huge backlogs of unrated plats and just send them to streams

nah I am also not slotting up my own levels for req streams, but some of my friends do that if they want to

In that case

I think in addition to demotion, your crp should be redistributed

Heyyyy 😊

Hey

so much positive energy emiting from here

mistywalrus is a godsend lol he is more determined to get them rated than I am at this point lol

thoughts

I know it's not you sending those because I don't think you're awake at 1am just to send your level in a request stream

OKAY thank you very much i will do that now!

Shouldve done specifically 127+ if ur real

Dude lowkey I don't do requests that often but the last few times I did I was sent both your unrated platformers and got them both like 😭

You bitch

i was just saying what he said

@spycold imagine this is u --> 🚶‍➡️ ---> 🛏️

send dazzling skyline @ mods

never hitting top 100

wow

even though my level is currently the second most sent unrated platformer level

oh

IM 10 SHORT YESS

I'm next on the chopping block aren't I

@Kirichu im going to examine you

I dont think sending your own level is bad I just have my own principle about it and I will never do it

my name is spycold and i close my eyes and go unconscious for several hours per day just to stay healthy

Clearly we need to rid of creator point grinders. Any mod with 101+ creator points needs to be examined

Rest well!

if u like dont time it

anyways hi! i should probably sleep now ill see what happened here when i wake up its 7 am

yea i dont think sending ur own stuff is that bad even if i avoid it like the plague

LOL

This card looks like the blackbeard slander image

and i usually feel bad and send more stuff after🧡

Missed opportunity to send this instead

Yeh

also swtcyn has said here before that if creator points were removed he would quit the game 😭 😭 like i think it is really evident what his priorities were

im like 100 hrs deep into my level for gd spirits day but itll be late

Just put the object in the editor bro 😭 🥀

I deleted all of them

Duuuuude

Nop

i lowkey do that but i do it at dogshit times and not purposely before a ratewave

Ryder do u have any old unrated levels

I gotta admit I sent my early 2.0 demon in that system, but never gonna do anything like that again

🥀

W self glaze ❤️‍🩹

I actually wanted to bring it up a week or two ago but couldnt find a good moment

pure greed

This was also a reason I called them out for being only focused on keeping their mod status (edited)

like you are a mod and have sent thousands of levels, out of which the majority dont get rated. and out of all of those levels, the one that is most important and deserving the most is the thing you made in a couple days last month

im my biggest fan

i dont usually send my main acc stuff anymore tbf since i dont know what rating to send it for usually 😭

just speaks about character really

I've always made sure, if I sent my own levels, that I wasn't the first one to do so because I'd want another mod to see them and be like "Yeah, this is good enough"

yk what i mean

cmon

yeah timing the send is the bad part

I think that there being a "meta" to get levels rated is the root cause here

Dw guys soon as we get that fabled Mod feature update

Send timing is ludicrous tho

ye I think it would be good if mods couldn't send their own levels anymore

I think sending your own levels is OK, sending your own 1-month old unrated level through private suggestions is icky

and ive been a broken record about this

Yeah

the whole system needs to be reworked so timing isnt a factor at all

like i requested agile by zeronium yet it didn't get rated and im so confused as to why it wouldn't get a rate (edited)

i do think itd be reasonable for rob to implement a system to where you cant send ur own stuff

if rob cant sightread past 50% he wont rate it

sending your own levels is crazy work

the fact that there isn't anything against that is also something

Does he check all the suggestions then or like only a few? I don’t really get how it works lol

(which still needs to be addressed because mods doing that is icky ngl)

The other thing is fire

Tbh iirc swtcyn was also send timing his own levels from what I heard

then platformer suggestions mixed with high send levels

Oh yeah that's happening

will wait a bit for duality cc levels to get rated

Nah some lvls have been suggested multiple times and eventually got rated

@gecko do u still maintain the list to see what was skipped

Literally when I first saw it I think I just laughed because I was so confused 😭

😭

i have been friends with swtcyn and used to hang out a lot around the time we got promoted so like

rob too unpredictable

So can we assume that levels skipped are never getting rated?

yeah i was so taken aback im ngl

hard to rly formally enforce that since the suggestions are entirely verbal

So glad this could happen

yea sending your own levels is kinda crazy to me

I think he is done

If I was in the same position it would have weighed very heavily on me and I would have been extremely hesitant to bring it up. But with that being said, I would have felt unfathomably awkward and uncomfortable maintaining discussions and general activity within this server along with any other space outside of here. From personal experience, seeing someone I know is a bad actor continue to remain in spaces and maintain mutual friendships between those who are unaware of the behaviour caused me a lot of frustration and hurt. For your own long-term mental wellbeing, getting this out of the way now is absolutely what is best for you I can assure you

yea thats perfect

I think what made it so weird for me is cause it just came out of nowhere, and initially it felt like some weird quarrel between friends (cause I literally couldn’t think of any other reason why he may have said that)

it should just be obvious

Is rob still rating levels from the last suggestion wave or is he done now?

I've never sent my own levels it's just common sense

😭

🙏 appreciate it

BRUH

ye there will be going forward

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ye

I’m pretty sure that got rated and you when bee crusher got skipped again 😭

just generally speaking

😭

is wild

yes

he did yes

😭

DUDE i held this back cus it was like not the worst thing ever but this was crazy

with all of this happening, i truly hope we can properly crack down on hatespeech on the minorities of our community. Not only in the community but people on the team here also deal with a lot of this kinda stuff irl to this day and we CANNOT have people who are bigoted and have these kinda views at all.

didnt wanna be me to say dat

LMAOOO

Wait was he actually doing this

Like I said, strange situation

idk

Ah well

"i dont accept you but we chill"

At the very minimum

ig atleast he wont be using the demon suggestion waves to get his 1 month old unrated medium length demons rated anymore 🔥🔥

i can see it being easier to talk about with someone closer to them

^

Idk why he chose him and what the goal was

I think it stems from having been close friends up until that point, but I'm unsure

Like???

😭

yeah

also him not mentioning anything in his message shows that he is not willing to take any accountability and grow

Could be a subconious catalyst

Wait really?

its assumed so (edited)

So this happened because of the ausk drama?

Thanks

100% same

I'll just share this here. Their focus on wanting to return as Mod sealed the deal for me. Not wanting a direct pathway, but what could I do to possibly convince the people on the team currently to have me re-promoted. This will be the only thing the team will focus on and it'll be a "hell no" Every. Single. Time." I'm not new. - SwtCyn It's the only thing they were focused on, and the only thing they WILL focus on. To immediately backpedal, the dismissals, admitting it was a 'slip-up' convinced me they only were scared about losing the mod status. And for that reason, I will not vouch for their name again.

TLDR: SwtCyn dmed [REDACTED] regarding some very LGBTQ-Phobic viewpoints that they had been hiding and saying some very heinous stuff. It was then brought up here and then discussed for a long time. Basically resulting in a lot of the people engaging in the discussion being uncomfortable with this. Was a bit of a back and forth with swtcyn trying to defend his words a bit and ultimately led to him resigning now.

Okay thanks

Understood

Resignation

We appreciate it a lot that you reached out

Trivial question: will this be announced as a demotion or resignation?

considering the position u were in it was really hard but u still did the right thing

takes making a very mature decision to do that

tldr

one moment

this is not worded in a way where it could be interpreted otherwise

Can someone summarise what happened pls, this is a long discussion

😭

which i just dont believe at all

Despite the transcript being right there

yeah and a lot of saying that he worded it wrong

And dismissive at times 😭

Of course, and I really hope you don't feel guilty over bringing the conversation to maintenance due to how it resulted. It seems as though this decision was unanimous amongst the team and knowing that someone many of us interact with daily was merely tolerating the way we are for the sake of maintaining a position is information that everybody should be aware of. Thank you for coming forward about it

Literally

Coming out with the actual reason would be an important point of their redemption arc if it ever happens

Im glad we got to discuss this here at least

Counterpoint: I think he understood but his only goal was saving face

But ultimately not much of a point to dig further into this or him

but

I dont think he understood the gravity of the situation at all

Actual villain behavior

im sorry but, him not expressing why he is resigning is telling

its unfortunately really cooked

Like personally I saw it as ok it’s not my job to change your viewpoint. Like if you have those views at the very least keep it to yourself

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It was really unexpected

Huh what happened

Nah but fr, even in vc we were making jokes about that with him and he seems to not care, even participate sometimes

well we wont know anymore 💀

I hope not

in the team

But like up until today he’s been doing a good job at keeping his thoughts to himself

as bizarre as it is im glad it came to a conclusion

Idk where he was going with that

yeah it was a really long one too

Ah well

I’m saying 😭

?

Im next then 💀

Cause literally no one asked

It’s just bizarre to me

ye I think so too

When they said ''Practically all of what I stated in those dm's I don't believe in.'' it unfortunely made it so clear how they stood into this discussion

Yeah I get you

ye

not counter, wrong word, but to express not fully supporting the ausk thing as much as others

I think it's right to let us hold each other accountable within the team

idk

It was unfortunately getting clearer and clearer

I didn’t wanna interject and ask and influence discussion with my Maintenance weight

Tried anything for a remote chance of keeping mod

He just stood by it

I was hoping he would say more of why he even SAID that

Good to clarify regardless

That should be obvious nw

It was solely for the dicussions and getting this exchange of opinions

I like the general approach of letting mods maybe have a bit of discussion around shit like this

I want to make clear that the intention of asking him to bring it here was ofc not to make him feel bad or forcing him into resigning by pressuring him

This was such a weird situation tho (edited)

^^

I hope swtcyn takes this as an opportunity to genuinely reflect and improve

Yeah but since it was between Mods allowing the time for a discussion here felt more possible

cuz that dm is quite absurd

But ye this way is more direct than having it run through all of maintenance and rob

😭

Tbf it was to another mod which is also bad ngl

Finally something positive for once

Prolly woulda been an “immediate demotion” if it were done to someone in public tho…

This was a good change

yeah similarly i wanted to get more perspective on the ausk thing with swtcyn privately and they never rly acknowledged it it was a bit worrying (edited)

Sorry had to happen this way

both in and out the server

I kinda felt a bit bad thi at the start because I understood why Mods may have thought they weren’t being heard but also beneficial that yall get a chance to talk about it

it feels a lot safer to confront and discuss here as opposed to a few months ago

I genuinely appreciate that we are able to discuss those things more here

ya theres clear progress with allowing more clarity, while theres still more work to do theres still clear effort in improving and I appreciate yall for making these changes

So I appreciate that

i do appreciate letting us discuss this and im sorry if i got a bit heated at maintenance and stuff because of the lack of info at first, but i do appreciate giving us the room to give our opinions on the decisions

I never felt so safe and secure to share my thoughts here so strongly and confidently, even if it did oppose and regrettably push swtcyn out this way

not to carry on stirring things, but devilmine was so right when talking about how swtcyn was defending the whole ausk things, it really showed their perspective.

In the past this would have stayed entirely within maintenance chat

even if things got heated i really appreciate everyone here that stood up so hard for this

I think in my eyes I wanted to let yall hash it out since it started between Mods and was totally contained to Mods

It was honestly

For mods to be able to discuss and express their concerns about issues

If there really was intent to let others educate them, it wouldn't have boiled down to this

We have never really done this before, but I believe it to be beneficial

youre right, my bad

Agree with this

agree

I think we should leave the jokes off this channel for now

For sure

The discussion here was definitely needed

I think in all my time of being here this is truly a unique experience

There were never dramas like that before since august of 2023 at least

I’m just so disappointed man wow

this is like back in january im ngl

a lot of stuff happened this week for sure

this week has been hell 😭

felt 😭

You got promoted at the worst timing ever bro

Bad timing

The wake-up of doom and despair

Oh hey Ryder lovely weather today no?

It’s 3am 😭

I've been on the team for 1 month and I've seen more drama than in my 3-4 years of being in the community...

Hi Ryder what's new

hi ryder

I literally woke up to piss right on time

gm

Hello ryder