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This is Ace's comment.

63 days ago

Alright, I made a new account that's in my name, lets explain myself and hopefully get the recent discord drama over with.

I have recently removed all of my mods for the game BDCC in part due to what I feel is extremely poor moderation of the community server itself. I worked as a mod developer and moderator of the game's community discord.

As moderator, my power was heavily limited and there was essentially no existing rules to actually enforce. During my time as a moderator, I pushed the game's developer to make changes to the community server for the better, but was instead repeatedly ignored with the excuse that everything was totally fine when I knew it wasn't. These changes included.

-Having actual server rules to enforce beyond "Dont be a dick"

-Moderators having power to do things beyond just banning spam bots.

-The ability for Moderation to give a role to someone to say "this person is trustworthy and not a minor or a bastard"

-Someone having the ability to make changes to the server itself without having to wait on the already very busy game developer to make changes several months later.

-Any kind of barrier to entry so spam, minors, and other bad actors couldnt just click a link and gain full access to a 18+ server.

Some people have misinterpeted this as me wanting to add ID verification to every server member coming into the server. I far as I can remember, I have never said I wanted this for the server, especially since it goes against Discord TOS. A different far smaller server I was a part of has something similar but I only gave it as an example and not what I wanted to implement. I know ID checking everyone coming is already impossible and immoral.

An example of what has made me so worked up is a case from before I became a moderator, is there was an exhibitionism channel in the community server, where members were encouraged to post nude photos of themselves. Naturally, several people who had posted photos of themselves would go on and confess to being not legal, and as a result, the channel was locked and hidden from view. However, none of the content within was ever actually deleted, just not accessible or viewable to any other member. It would take several months for the channel to be properly deleted, content and all, after I had became a moderator and was able to explain the significant risk and harm of keeping the channel around.

I would go on to continually ask for the changes listed above to improve the server and prevent other further damages and I would constantly be turned away with the reason of "It's fine, nothing bad is happening, don't worry about it". I would realize there was no way of changing anything, and would step down as a moderator and later, my opinion of community would sour to the point of leaving it, and further again to no longer wanting my content to be available from myself, where I would take down all 100+ mods I have made for the game and simply let the community repost them without my input. Stuff I had directly put into the game could stay and any reposts I would not interfere with because I am no longer involved.

Should things change for the better in my eyes, I would be more than willing to come back and return all of my content to mod community. Despite everything, I am still very amicable with the game's creator, I know their job is hard one and they are a small cat. However, I cannot trust anyone from the game's community anymore that I don't already personally know.

May things change for the better.