Hey all,

As you know there has been some drama recently between one of our former admins (ipconfigall) and Robosnail. Ipconfig has been a very helpful admin in the past and has made a lot of friends on the server, which is why it has come as a bit of a shock to some players who knew him that he has been banned. So I'm writing this post to clarify the reasons why ipconfig was banned and to inform you all that I support Robosnail's decision on this 100%.

Here is a list of actions for our admins that can get you fired and permabanned from the servers:

Super obvious stuff get you fired with out warning.

1. handing out items to players(This includes refunds unless netizen or robosnail approve them.)

2. Tping a player that is not stuck.

3. Giving out information that is not yours to share.

4. Messing with players, spawning monsters, breaking blocks, opening doors while invisible, ANYTHING that could be considered interfering with the players game experience.

5. Acting immature or unprofessional.

When there was problems going on in US2, he broke the #1 rule that can get you fired. It doesn't matter that US2 was experiencing issues, it doesn't matter if it was 'fun', it doesn't matter if there is or is not a rollback. If you break rule #1 you're out. This is the standard we've set up for all of our admins to follow and it is Robosnail's job to investigate if these rules have been broken. Ipconfig was not banned without my consent, we both looked at the evidence and determined that what ipconfig did was way out of line.

Furthermore this was not an isolated incident but the most recent and egregious misuse of power and trust that we've had from him thus far. Before this, Ipconfig was editing posts on the forums adding new "rules" to the rule list, banning people for said rules, removing reports of his own 'admin abuse' on the forums and then dealing with the ban appeals privately on his teamspeak server. This added a lot of confusion as to what is and is not against the rules which then forced Robosnail to "be the bad guy", crack down on mods and chastise ipconfig for it, which is what lead to ipconfig's "resignation". Furthermore, taking ban appeals inside of team speak and removing admin abuse reports makes Robosnail's job of moderating the moderators impossible.

Ipconfig had already been severly warned about overstepping his role from the issues above. He knew what the rules were and chose to break them anyway. Worse, he made no attempt to contact me when US2 broke and instead he took it upon himself to take liberties with our policy for admin conduct.

Robosnail is just doing his job and I trust in his ability to make fair and unbiased decisions. Robosnail will not ban you or even deny you a mod position just because you disagree with him. This instance forces him to be the bad guy and if you only hear ipconfig's side of the story I'm sure it can look bad. Robosnail has a hard skin but you should go easy on him. We've all been under tons of stress the last few weeks and sometimes it seems like the problems are created faster than they're solved.

Feel free to AMA in this thread and I'll respond to as many questions as I have time for.

Thanks all.