changed to unrated what a shit show.
Sam announced his departure from the project
The general chat on the Discord descended into chaos, with many people bashing Sam for his religious beliefs
People started spamming trans rights in the chat, which resulted in some people responding with transphobia
A mod tried to shut it down by targeting the people spamming trans rights, rather than the transphobic comments. They referred to the trans topic as something that makes some people uncomfortable, which pissed off the trans community
The one active mod began shutting down chats, with the community finding a workaround by creating threads. There was a general resentment for the mod due to their comment on trans stuff. The mod continued to double down on his stance before apologising a couple of hours later
Speculation began that the mod team was generally not supportive of trans people. Around this time, someone leaked a chat with Sam showing his negative stance on LGBT+, supporting the speculation
A couple of new mods came online and tried to assure everybody that the issue was being dealt with. One of them (newly appointed community manager) quit within a couple of hours due to in fighting between mods and being told to play PR on the LGBT+ stuff despite being LGBT+ themselves.
Despite calls for the mod team to take a strong ‘no bigotry’ stance, the mod team put out a statement banning all political talk, making it clear they intend to sit on the fence on this issue
Sam announced his departure from the project
The general chat on the Discord descended into chaos, with many people bashing Sam for his religious beliefs
People started spamming trans rights in the chat, which resulted in some people responding with transphobia
A mod tried to shut it down by targeting the people spamming trans rights, rather than the transphobic comments. They referred to the trans topic as something that makes some people uncomfortable, which pissed off the trans community
The one active mod began shutting down chats, with the community finding a workaround by creating threads. There was a general resentment for the mod due to their comment on trans stuff. The mod continued to double down on his stance before apologising a couple of hours later
Speculation began that the mod team was generally not supportive of trans people. Around this time, someone leaked a chat with Sam showing his negative stance on LGBT+, supporting the speculation
A couple of new mods came online and tried to assure everybody that the issue was being dealt with. One of them (newly appointed community manager) quit within a couple of hours due to in fighting between mods and being told to play PR on the LGBT+ stuff despite being LGBT+ themselves.
Despite calls for the mod team to take a strong ‘no bigotry’ stance, the mod team put out a statement banning all political talk, making it clear they intend to sit on the fence on this issue
Rensie
24 days ago
Can you explain how a discord can influence a rating on a game anyway? I thought a Discord for a fangame was only to check what to do when you have trouble with installing/updating, and this game doesn't even have that. What would you go to a discord for for anything else? People just put in slurs and shocking things in chats to be edgy when they see weakness in moderation, tale as old as the internet. Why would they specifically need to make a stand against that? It would be the best to just lock everything and clean up imo. My tip: don't let how you feel get decided by things that have nothing to do with the game itself. But that might be impossible to ask for these days.