[Votebans should be reworked]

I wanted to make a community post in hopes that this makes a difference towards the corrupt system of Votebans

 

The voteban system needs to be either removed entirely or at the very least restricted. I do not think this is a controversial take after seeing the outcry between several players within the game due to false bans. I have been personally targeted by these false bans when the player 

"Exodium (STEAM_0:0:205319780)" votebanned me 4 days ago for the reason " (Massive queer votebanning innocent people) " after i had votebanned one of his assumed friends which was mass rdming people including myself while no staff were on. Now this is not a ban appeal but instead an example i am using to justify my point.  another prime example was when the admin "TurkeyJuiceX STEAM_0:0:116421847" was banned on JAN 27th for being afk while being the only staff online at the time.

 

While I do understand votebans exist to help players defend themselvs when no admins are online. This should be enough evidence by itself to show that this system is way too easily accessible and that it needs to change. A possible change that could be made that would'nt require the system to be outright removed is by restricting the ability to create votebans perhaps limiting it to players who have a certain number of Hours/ Levels in the server could be a possible way. Overall, votebans as they stand in the game now are doing more harm then good to the community and server and must either be restricted or completely removed until a new system is in place.

[On the abolishment of harassment/toxicity rules]

On 6/22/2022 at 5:29 PM, Quas said:

I have decided to make this post after the increased amount of recent reports for harassment and toxicity, and one of them even getting a 1 month ban I believe. Personally, I dont see this as right, and I have reason to believe a lot of you agree with me. If you spend any time on the server at all, and you are a bit of a controversial fellow, you know how the cycle goes:

 

Player X who most likely lacks a father or God gets killed, arrested, etc. by Player Y -> Resentment and anger builds up in Player X -> Player X decides to do anything in their power to antagonize and instigate Player Y that isnt explicitly breaking rules -> Player Y gets pissed, proceeds to talk some trash, say some mean words -> Player X reports Player Y -> Player Y is banned.

 

Or, alternatively: Player X makes himself an easy target to Player Y because he lacks social skills, impulse control, or never had truly masculine friends -> Player Y is more gravitated to mess with Player X as a result -> Instead of muting Player Y, avoiding him, etc. Player X decides to allow Player Y to mess with him until he has enough evidence  -> Makes a report -> Player Y is banned

 

Needless to say, this is an issue, it really is. You can twist is however you want but besides a couple of differences, these are the 2 scenarios that someone will make harassment reports about. If you notice, in these 2 scenarios, it traces back to the "victims" fault, which is true 99% of times. This would beg the question: Maybe if we didnt have rules that appeal to the resentment and vengeful nature of these people, maybe players  would learn to not make themselves targets of this "Harassment". I guarantee you if we get rid of ANY rules against toxicity, harassment, targeting, etc. We wouldnt have any cases of harassment within 3 months, because when you make rules and allow people to have a way of thinking where if they dont like someone, they can simply bait them into harassing them and then just get them banned. I have had many people attempt to do this to me, so I know how it goes every time.

 

I start calling someone names, they start going "Stop now, seriously" which is basically just saying "Keep going so I can report you please" and I do stop so I dont get in trouble, and usually a little bit later I will get a PM from them saying "Thank you for stopping" Which is basically their hail mary to appeal to my pride and get me to start saying things again (reverse psychology). Its such a headache to deal with isnt it? I dont even say anything crazy or bad, I just call them a baby and say "Wah Wah" or something stupid like that, and they get pissy over it. This whole idea that "Harassment and toxic is bad" is based on the presumption that being mean is inherently bad, which its not, its amoral. It is the same with being nice, being nice isnt good or bad, its amoral. When I was a plumber I had a boss that was mean constantly and yelled at me constantly, but it was simply so I could get angry, and channel that anger into my job, something greater then me. If you ever worked a hard labor job in your life, and had a boss that was above the age of 30, you probably know EXACTLY what I am talking about. If you have had any form of true masculine comradery as a man growing up, you would be messed with and made fun all the time, its how we mess around with each other and have fun. Its not my fault that some cry baby cant taking reading 3 letters on a screen, or seeing a slur of some sort. They dont belong on the internet if thats the case. Notice how that was the golden age of gaming was when you were getting told "KYS" over a a text message because you were hardscoping on nuketown on BO2? Its no coincidence that the most fond memories of gaming was OBSCENELY toxic, the issue is when you blend femininity and toxicity is when things start going sideways, which is what we are seeing now. I would argue making a toxicity report on someone (even though you basically allowed the toxicity) is EXTREMELY toxic.

 

My solution? Literally get rid of the rules ENTIRELY. All of them. Targeting, harassment, toxicity, anything related to these. At least for 3 months, and lets see the difference between now, and 3 months later. I promise you the state of the server will be vastly better

 

The thing we all need to realize is that even if you dont like someone, they should still be allowed to play the server, even if they break the rules against you. If they dont have a negative impact on the general population of the server, and they get banned for something, then they make an appeal and seem apologetic, they should be unbanned. This is exactly why I dont like getting most players banned, yet I constantly challenge staff. We are all here to have a good time, and have fun, relax with the boys. Where is the fun in getting your enemies banned? Wouldnt be much fun if you dont have that one juggernaut outside your kidnap dupe that lays you out every time you try to kidnap someone (C*ntbucket, im looking at you). Just keep that in the back of your head, were all here to have a good time and a bitter nature mixed with the enshrinement of harassment and toxicity rules makes for a terrible time, which we already have seen.

Oh yes how do we increase the population of our dying server I know let's allow people to call new players slurs!

 

On a serious note I used to play tits RP a lot back in 2016 through 2018 and recently started playing again. and with the current rules in place I have already been called slurs almost every time I log on I've even been vote banned for the reason of "massive queer" which was a troll obviously however logging on and getting called a Fa**ot or hearing random high leveled players which I will not name here calling new players the n word or other general slurs is incredibly demotivating and makes me debate on quitting the game again but this time for good.

 

Tldr. I love tits RP and believe it's one of the last good servers on DRP but I strongly believe that especially coming from the eyes of a veteran player who had sunk a lot of time into the server years before. That endorsing this behavior will only further worsen the servers current state. - You may miss that "Golden Age" but times have changed and this server needs to either evolve with it or be left in the dust.

[Talent point suggestions]

Unsure if more talent point perks will be added but if so could there be one that automatically places spirit jars in your inventory as a spirit caller.  A similar perk which automatically inventories cereal found as Piccolos cage could be added as well.