Making Reports and Keeping the Community Safe

We would like to address something that comes up time and time again around the hub: making accusations without evidence.

It has come to be a regular occurrence that (usually jailed) members make accusations that the server has done nothing about a complaint they have filed, or worse, persecuted them for it.

Let us be clear: we are not here to take sides or to moderate based on opinion. We moderate by fact, and fact alone.

If you come to staff for support or seek advice, we will happily provide it. If you come in search of moderation action needed against another member, we will require proof.

This is for your own safety. Many of us have been in communities like this one where mods can abuse their powers: to ban or punish members simply for being disliked, or on unfounded accusations if they mess with the wrong person. We will never do that here.

Other people agreeing with you that someone is disliked is not evidence.

So if ever you see someone in the server who you have been told did xyz or was reported and nothing g has been done, we can promise you this: either those who claim to have reported never did, or those with claims either have no proof of their claims or have refused to share them for whatever reason.

That is simply all there is to it. Staff listen to and act on all necessary reports that have provided evidence of their claims. And the hub will not begin actioning members based on baseless claims, or anyone would have the power to get anyone banned with a simple lie.

Members are also never jailed for filing reports made in good conscience. We may not be able to act without evidence, but a member is not punished for such when put in a ticket.

Which brings us to our last point: two wrongs do not make a right. If you behave against the server rules, someone else also breaking those rules or doing wrong to you is not a “Get out of Jail free” card. If both parties have done wrong, both will be actioned. Not neither. Not whoever did wrong first. Both.

So again, if an issue arises, we urge you to come to staff with evidence and not to deal with that problem by engaging in rule breaks of your own - which is the only thing that will ever land you in a jail when an investigation is launched. Never filing a report.