DM — I'm not exactly sure who your post was in response to, but I'd like to take a slightly different tactic here.

These issues were present on the Forum and on Discord and, ultimately, cannot be pinpointed to one post, one comment or one exchange. People are varied as Unibot and Cormac in GP were pointing out that something needed to be done, in addition, again, to this thread of people who have voiced support for this action. 

Here's the long and short of it: TSP's community is built on several different platforms and no one wants to take responsibility for it. Government officials were complaining about the toxicity, and instead of doing something about it, they complained to the forum admins to do something. And, frankly, I don't know what to do in such a situation. 

My goal here isn't trying to convince you that the rules were broken. However, I agree with the other admins that Rules 1 and 8 or the forum rules were violated. I'm, frankly, not sure what this entire thread is if it wasn't intended to slandering the reputations of Glen, Kris, Roavin and Farengeto simply by conversing with Unibot. (Please note where I asked what we wanted to be achieved in that thread.)

We also have this example of attacking Kris and Glen for something that happened — literally years ago. (Moreover, it's buying into a hackneyed conspiracy theory that was pushed during a coup of the region).

We also have this thread which trolls Far and accusing Roavin of stalling.

I'll point out that these are examples from the forum, not anything posted in Discord — which is where many of the complaints came from. I'm not digging through this stuff, but if people would like to post things from there, they are free to add to this thread.

For me, it ultimately came down to this choice: Are we going to alienate a majority of the community in order to keep Escade and Tim, who are largely smarting from Roavin's motion of no confidence? Or are we going to bite the bullet and do something so this region doesn't remain a complete shit show.

All the above said, let me be clear: Everything about this was shitty and I resent having to make a call. TSP needs a better way to handle such things in the future and sending complaint messages to the admins is not it.