Thread:S3r0-Ph1i/@comment-106.68.146.7-20190819053334/@comment-106.68.146.7-20190822132857

Hi! It’s Ribble again btw!

Also CPD buddy you sure know how to write an essay I’ll give you that 😊. But yeah, kinda piggybacking off his points so let hope this isn’t another essay, though CPD hasn’t left me with much else to say he’s covered the vast majority of it!

We’re a small server, only in the 200’s, and there is by far a different way to running a server of our size and activity rate as compared to larger, more active servers. We, and especially so since we’ve expanded the mod team if I’m allowed to be a tall poppy for a sec; are constantly analysing what happens and how efficiently things run and how they can be improved. We’re in the middle of a ‘renovation’ of sorts, partly brought on by necessity as we’ve grown a lot in both numbers and closer as both people and fans; and as well as needing to be up to par with what we believe the fans deserve. What the fans deserve is a fun, safe space where they can be surrounded by people who they can view as a second family, warts and all.

We don’t want who we would consider another family to be run with the same strict rules that is meant for a server full of strangers. And unfortunately, during our negotiations, we felt our core value would have been erased had we followed through with what they wanted. We didn’t want to be erased, we want to be free to talk and communicate about this and that and all the things in between. We feel like we’re on our way to becoming the server we all want it to be, and if we had allowed the proposed changes to go through, we, the mod team, would have been going against what we know is best for our users. It would have disrupted everything we’ve tried to create, and that’s the last thing anyone wants.

We were so stoked at the idea of merging initially! We were willing to embrace change and see where it would have taken us, but it was clear, even from the first initial fact that the mod team from the other server wanted the merger ‘negotiations’ hidden away from the rest of the server, who deserve to know what was going on around them; that they saw themselves on a different level to their users, and did not plan on getting to know anyone, instead unfortunately just trying to take as much as they could, potentially including our identity as a whole, which CPD covered.

And yes! Having mods on opposite sides of the planet is really helpful, we really have all our bases covered almost effortlessly!

We’re still hopeful and ever so keen to negotiate and move forward in conjunction with you guys! Thank you for reading both of these essays, words can really get away from us it seems!

Please feel free to join the server and find out who we are, we’d love to meet you all! 😊