I appreciate the passion behind this post. You guys wouldn't hold us to the standard that you do if you didn't care about Loka. That said we have to pick apart several things going on in this thread separately.
fa1c's mute was indeed unnecessary and got rolled back. We're human, we're also from all over the world and while we try to make sure we get it right (with lots of discussion among the staff), sometimes things do slip through. We recognized the mistake though and it was corrected.
I'm not here to argue about politics since that is a really messy topic that I don't wanna get into, but Cryptite revealing that report opened up, which involved a harassment complaint(which should always be taken seriously), opens up a whole can of worms about how staff is keeping player conflicts private, while blatantly leaking a confidential report.
I will admit it was an unnecessary post by me in that thread but I didn't reply for no reason. While we don't generally share reports, as most of them are benign,
players will always try to control the narrative in a ban appeal (simply see the very end of this post). That report was not a harassment complaint, and so I felt was important to provide some additional context in that thread to show that it was not a one-sided situation.
Berdb makes a really good comment on this situation when he said, "There's evidence of you doing bad things, and with your recent chat history, we do not think you deserve to speak in our community; however, we cannot share this evidence"
berd is not staff, this is meaningless.
Leaving players in the dark creates confusion and brings up questions just like this forum post is talking about.
This confusion almost exclusively happens when a player who is prone to common harassment finally gets punished. Because their behavior is so commonplace, they can't think of a specific example of why they might have gotten punished which is usually a bad sign as it is. The reason we
cannot (not just simple arbitrarily choose not to) always share with players why they were punished is to
protect the victim. This has been our stance for the entirety of Loka's existence.
I put it to you. How can we protect a victim or even be trusted with reports of harassment if we turn right around and narc on them when the harasser asks who the victim is?
And unrelated:
I got muted for calling Kylaz a pdf
That's not why you were muted.