I think crux of it, is that feisty is obviously an influential figure that can convince people to kick from guilds without proper evidence and tribunal (as shown by your takes here, favouring one side despite not hearing arguments from both sides). If you want to set that precedent thats fine, but i would would assume some people are not okay with gm interns being unchallengeable. Feisty might be 100% in the right here but geto should have the chance to defend himself before being kicked from his guild note: ive never had a real conversation with geto and come from a guild where geto either left or was removed so no bias here
Regardless of any of this the community blacklist thread should not be utilized for an issue that does not involve the community. This is an issue between two members of a guild and alliance. Any dissention between the parties involved should be taken up directly with those involved. Posting out of context screenshots anonymously about an issue that is not publicly known, again this happened in a guild and alliance, is just an incorrect use of this thread. Correct me if I am wrong here. It seems to me there may be dissatisfaction about a specific member of the community and people seem to have strong opinions about this, but if you want the community to value your input perhaps the right thread with a valid argument supported by evidence would be advisable.
This issue more community involved than people stealing appos, picking up dropped items, withholding splits, scamming leech wdym? 90% of the posts here are between 1-3 individuals (note im not saying that these posts are invalid, just that theyre all valid. If someone is accusing of harrassment (whether justly or injustly), that seems to be a valid post to me) If you read my post carefully, im not accusing feisty of doing anything wrong so i dont need evidence, im just saying i think its fair to allow someone to defend themselves before requesting a kick from their guild
I disagree. A member of the community willing to withhold splits or take items from others is evidence of a person willing to unfairly treat others and it could be argued that that person may be willing to do the same again. In many of those posts the argument to blacklist is supported by actual evidence and people willing to validate that evidence. The post in question didn't seem to amount to anything other than finger pointing. I saw no conclusive evidence of harassment (in either direction). People seem to be making a habit of speaking on conjectures here instead of providing evidence to their claims. It's fine to think someone should be able to defend themselves after being kicked, but why would that make it valid to post it here? An isolated event, between guild members, with no real evidence about how this could negatively impact the community does nothing to support either argument being made in your post.
Posting as a player, not representing staff: There is more to the story that was left out (conversations via discord about certain people). It is not my place to share them, but I would have been salty towards someone as well. This part is coming from my staff side: In response to Fumikage's comment: It is only up to our Admins (Tim/Matt) to determine if staff abuse (any staff category) happens, so I can't talk to that. I can tell you that if you see staff abuse happening, you can report it directly to Tim or Matt via DM on the forums or via the Report Abuse section to be reviewed by them (either is fine). Staff are not above the law and we follow the same Terms and Conditions that all players agree to when they sign up for forum and in-game accounts. Additionally, we have our own staff rules/guidelines that we have to follow that are enforced by Tim/Matt. The situation with your guildie that was posted in the blacklist was unfortunate for them as they were breaking our Terms and Conditions. We discovered this and took action based on our Terms and Conditions. Any other members that were involved that were being discussed on the Community Blacklist had not committed any violations per our Terms and Conditions. Additionally, if you feel that someone has broken our Terms and Conditions, you can always report them via Report Abuse. Finally, when players are reporting someone via Report Abuse, we require that they submit unedited evidence (either screenshots or a recording) with either the server clock or the ~servertime command used to ensure that someone isn't weaponizing old evidence or editing their evidence to appear new (yes, this has happened on numerous occasions which is why we require what we require). When staff ban someone, we gather the same evidence and log it for all staff to see for accountability. There are additional measures that we follow to ensure that we had proper evidence for the ban that took place. I would encourage you to not throw out claims without first inquiring about the current process first. Carry on.
I go play a different game for a while and come back to an argument I can't follow cause the original report was apparently deleted for being anonymous If this is a case of simple finger pointing back and forth, then staph it. If there are clear evidence of wrong doing the community should be aware of, can the reporter post it again, but on their actual account? I missed the original report so I have no idea
Yeah and its fine if we fundamentally disagree because you dont think anyone was being treated unfairly in those screenshots. From my perspective, there is an influential and staff player who has more sway and so asking for someone to be removed from another guild without tribunal is within their right but also unfair and could happen to others who happen to disagree with Feisty (the community aspect). I agree theres context missing so no judgements can be made, but it is undeniable that foxy (rightly or wrongly) asked to remove geto from the other guild. Again, to be clear, foxy could be 100% justified and maybe there was already an internal tribunal but no one has mentioned it so im assuming it didnt happen. At the end of the day, seems like we disagree fundamentally on what is unfair/affects the community so ill settle for an agree to disgree
Well, yeah, the staff is not above the law/rules. But looking at this report you can pretty much see that some people listens to GMs/Intern and do what they say, without barely questioning it. Even if that's not written abuse (afaik) in any way, it's indeed problematic. I do understand that there might be more background to this story so I'm not going to comment on more on that. Just wanted to highlight that.
I don't know any of Geto or Foxy personally. Spoiler: tho My attitude towards Geto is slightly negative based on some of his interactions on forum. I gained 4 ws from Foxy's tag on a GM event chair I won. So slight positive towards Foxy I guess. (Someone traded me 4 ws and the same untagged chair for the tagged chair.) A lot of people would be happy if @Geto make the report here, even if it won't be considered by the host because the SS provider prefers to be anonymous and will crop the SS's. But everyone here has a scale in our mind. Also because there is no better place to go as the Report Abuse is invisible to the players. I feel like what Geto and Foxy disputed about was related to something a Ban Appeal thread claims. Although it* might not be blacklisted-worthy, this is definitely relevant to the community. it*:asking ppl to kick Geto from alliance/guild
IGN: Getoneer REASON: Harassment and Toxicity DETAILS: Hi everyone. I will be responding to this thread as FeistyFox, guild leader of Ours and alliance leader. Addressing Guilds/Alliances Guilds and alliances are small communities that make up the greater community being MapleRoyals. Each guild and alliance will have their own set of rules on what is considered acceptable, how guilds within an alliance can be compatible with each other and what can result in players or guilds getting kicked. The alliance that we have worked hard to build and nurture consists of simple rules such as be chill, help others and have fun. These rules extend to our interactions with MapleRoyallers in general, regardless of the guild or alliance they are in. For players that breached these simple requirements within the alliance by being rude to others, griefing others, using slurs and other such behaviour received warnings or were immediately kicked pending the severity of the incident. When a guild within the alliance refuses to hold their guildmates to the same standards as the alliance such as placing their guild above alliance guilds, ignoring their guildmates' griefing allies in PQs, attacking allies verbally and other such negative activities, they become non-compatible with the alliance and will be requested to leave. Addressing Geto Geto was a friend to the guild and found a home he enjoyed within an alliance guild. The guild and alliance treated Geto the same as we did with anyone else we met, with kindness, providing assistance if it was needed, responding to requests for help and much more. We consoled him when he was down, we played maple with him and we celebrated his milestones with him. We gave Geto a guildie tag on discord so he could access all text channels, even though he was not a guildmate. The last time he accessed the guild discord's voice chat was in October 2024. Geto and his co-conspirators took this friendship and kindness and called allies rude names and slurs. We spoke to him and his guild leader and and gave him and his co-conspirators a chance. Geto and his co-conspirators took this chance and griefed allies in PQs by afking for 45mins+ at a time and playing on their other characters. We spoke to him and his guild leader and and gave him and his co-conspirators another chance. Geto and his co-conspirators took this additional chance and conspired with Jrs in their home guild to target and attack me. I spoke to him and his guild leader and and gave him and his co-conspirators yet another chance. Geto and his co-conspirators instigated alliance members to fight over issues that didn't exist. We spoke to him and his guild leader and and gave him and his co-conspirators again, another chance. Geto and his co-conspirators decided that the abuse and pain that they have inflicted was not enough. They decided that they had to reach out to the larger community and spread lies about the guild voice chat by claiming that they are a "reliable source" when none of them had been in the guild voice chat since October 2024. Please see this thread here https://royals.ms/forum/threads/community-blacklist.166479/page-231#post-1487314 Please also see the image below where Geto admitted to being this so called "reliable source" by providing false information about myself, the guild and the alliance in relation to the post above. Regardless of whether Geto will be added to the blacklist or not, I want to raise awareness that while Geto may appear to be your friend and can be sweet and charming, he will take screenshots of your chat that's taken out of context to rile up players and guilds against you while sitting back and pretending he had nothing to do with it as he wants to remain as the "unnamed reliable source". MapleRoyals is a server that we all love and wish to thrive in, with our friends, our guildies and our allies. Be kind to each other, help each other out and challenge each other to be the best we can be. Don't be a Geto.
Just adding because I'm a bit hurt - Geto talked shit about me behind my back continuously while I was always nice to him and considered him a friend. I shouldn't be surprised with his forum behavior but I was, so ye. Be careful who you choose to befriend I guess.
how can gm or any staff member keep he's chars and guild+alliance once becoming staff is really beyond me. doesnt make sense... it can easily lead to rule breaking and other shananigans to say the least... especially after so many gm's breaking the rules lately and in general. why take the risk of lettin ppl with alot of power play favorites... and im sayin this without relation to the drama, power "corrupts" anywhere u look and usually in everyway aswell. we had gm's leakin gm's rwt, gm's abuse ban and forum ban's (in the past present and im pretty sure now that in the ffuture too). u wanna have a fun server try holding everyone to a certain standard.. i dont care for the drama in anyway but i cant be the only one who see's this... if i win the lottery u can be damn sure ill buy my friends some stuff, isnt it the same thing?
GM can also be player, nothing wrong about that, GM is not subject to any benefit from the server with their role/ normal character. You might wanna check this^ out, they've changed GM privilege sometime ago.