I regret having to make this, but I would by lying if I said I did not see it coming. This report will not include anything from the previous report made against him, for obvious reasons. I also encourage MadMMTM to come in here and personally defend himself. It would mean a lot to the community if he could represent himself and explain his actions to us. For the record, I know it seems like there is bias on my part against MadMMTM, but I have always made my very best attempt to keep my personal feelings out of matter-of-fact business such as rules and reports. I do hope everyone keeps that in mind, and thus takes this report with a grain of salt and that it is carefully examined and explored by the staff team. I also know that the staff team is terribly busy right now, so I do not expect an immediate response. I am merely airing out the discontent of the playerbase with a member of the staff team.
The charges against MadMMTM are the following:
Staff Bias
Blatant Disregard for Rules
Abuse of Staff Privileges
While I could break these categories up much more, I decided it would be best to consolidate them into three separate categories. Without further ado, here is the case against MadMMTM.
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Staff Bias
Staff bias is the hardest claim to prove and as such is probably the one that will get the least attention. I'm okay with that, I don't think staff should be demoted purely based on their opinion on members of the community. However, it is when you combine their one-sided opinions with the rest of the claims that it becomes a serious problem. Most of the evidence filed against MadMMTM are from when he left neutrality to join DPRK to fight against our side yesterday. I will make my claims and then provide evidence to substantiate the claims.
MadMMTM has a personal vendetta against me and Moosebobby (who is now inactive for personal reasons) and has had one for a long time. However, the main thing that concerns me as a player and many others is how quickly his opinions change, from one extreme to the other.
Just a few days ago, MadMMTM was railing against DPRK in voice call with us, telling us how he wants to help us beat them and various other things, while using his privilege as a neutral player to assist us. Then, some players on our side say some things about him, and he is angry at us and joins them and uses his privileges as a staff member to help them. It is not simply distaste that he has for the other side; he has proven to have a very deep, very real capacity for hate. Someone who hates the playerbase should not be forced to interact with them on a professional basis as a representative of the community consistently.
Below is video evidence of bias against DPRK, as well as abuse of staff privilege.
I am aware this footage could bring in question the legitimacy of our side's KOTH victory - I will maintain that we won it completely, but I do understand that it will most likely cause problems for us. I have stated before and I will maintain that what's best for CivWars is what I want, and rule-breaking is not what's best for CivWars. I'll leave that decision up to the Management, but I do ask that our enemies in KOTH do not use this thread to dispute the legitimacy of the KOTH victory, instead open a ticket in the Discord for that. Thank you!
Blatant Disregard for Rules and Abuse of Staff Privileges
I will jump straight into it. MadMMTM has shown through his actions and words a complete disregard for the rules that he is supposed to follow as a player and uphold as a member of the staff team. At best, he does not know the rules. At worst, he does not care for the rules. His actions yesterday proved that, and his words afterwards have shown it even more. I don't have much to say about it besides that, it's fairly straightforward so I'll just get right into where he broke the rules.
Below is a short series of images that show MadMMTM in his various ways of disregard for the rules. Each image comes with an explanation of what's going on in the description, make sure to read it.
Here is the illegal gank mentioned in the images above for reference:
Further evidence is included here. Firstly, we have MadMMTM flying around while we are trying to kill him, and then accessing a neutral's vault for items:
I was told that his fly was disabled and I do know he was warned for illegally using a neutral's vault, and one rule violation should not mean a demotion but this is not the first report against him, and this is clearly not one rule he's broken.
Next, we have MadMMTM using an illegal sethome to break my flag on DPRK (could also be staff bias). Kim_Jong_Ben also has an illegal home in the video. MadMMTM assured us that he did not have the home, only Ben did. However, if that is the case, MadMMTM allowed and encouraged Ben to use an illegal set home, and then assisted him in his rule breaking to break a warflag. I am told by another moderator who was monitoring the situation (who you can see in the chat on the server) that "they" deleted "their sethomes", which implies that both MadMMTM and Kim_Jong_Ben had illegal set homes. This is evidence of bias and rule breaking. Here is the video:
The following I do not have video evidence of but is an indisputable fact as the management and administration will be forced to agree that MadMMTM was in God mode while he was in a fight:
MadMMTM in God mode bowing us while we are trying to flag DPRK. After he is told to stop bowing us in God mode, he simply blocks our bow shots so we can't hit the people that are shooting at us.
I complain in a ticket, and we also all begin complaining on the server to MadMMTM who says that he's "not in the way". After complaints by us en masse, I am told that he has been put out of God mode. MadMMTM says that he 'got it disabled for us'.
After being taken out of God mode, we bow him off of a high platform that should kill him several times. You may be aware, when you have /fly enabled you do not take fall damage. Because of this, he does not die from fall damage, either from jumping in the fall trap or from being bowed off during the fight.
The God mode was given to him as staff privilege to record for the server. He abused this to not die in a fight. Only after we complained en masse and he was worried that he would get in trouble did he ask for it to be disabled, not when he was fighting us or any time before that during the 2 hour period he was unneutral, warring, and in God mode.
He used his staff privilege to encourage rule breaking by several people and to dissuade MLG from punishing rule breakers.
He used his staff privilege to deliver information to our side on our enemies during KOTH and to offer us safe TPs into the KOTH where we could fight (such as tping Asdeo into the middle of KOTH).
I do not think MadMMTM should be staff.
I will include more as I can think of it.
ah shit, here we go again.
The charges against MadMMTM are the following:
Staff Bias
Blatant Disregard for Rules
Abuse of Staff Privileges
While I could break these categories up much more, I decided it would be best to consolidate them into three separate categories. Without further ado, here is the case against MadMMTM.
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Staff Bias
Staff bias is the hardest claim to prove and as such is probably the one that will get the least attention. I'm okay with that, I don't think staff should be demoted purely based on their opinion on members of the community. However, it is when you combine their one-sided opinions with the rest of the claims that it becomes a serious problem. Most of the evidence filed against MadMMTM are from when he left neutrality to join DPRK to fight against our side yesterday. I will make my claims and then provide evidence to substantiate the claims.
MadMMTM has a personal vendetta against me and Moosebobby (who is now inactive for personal reasons) and has had one for a long time. However, the main thing that concerns me as a player and many others is how quickly his opinions change, from one extreme to the other.
Just a few days ago, MadMMTM was railing against DPRK in voice call with us, telling us how he wants to help us beat them and various other things, while using his privilege as a neutral player to assist us. Then, some players on our side say some things about him, and he is angry at us and joins them and uses his privileges as a staff member to help them. It is not simply distaste that he has for the other side; he has proven to have a very deep, very real capacity for hate. Someone who hates the playerbase should not be forced to interact with them on a professional basis as a representative of the community consistently.
Below is video evidence of bias against DPRK, as well as abuse of staff privilege.
Blatant Disregard for Rules and Abuse of Staff Privileges
I will jump straight into it. MadMMTM has shown through his actions and words a complete disregard for the rules that he is supposed to follow as a player and uphold as a member of the staff team. At best, he does not know the rules. At worst, he does not care for the rules. His actions yesterday proved that, and his words afterwards have shown it even more. I don't have much to say about it besides that, it's fairly straightforward so I'll just get right into where he broke the rules.
Below is a short series of images that show MadMMTM in his various ways of disregard for the rules. Each image comes with an explanation of what's going on in the description, make sure to read it.
Here is the illegal gank mentioned in the images above for reference:
Further evidence is included here. Firstly, we have MadMMTM flying around while we are trying to kill him, and then accessing a neutral's vault for items:
Next, we have MadMMTM using an illegal sethome to break my flag on DPRK (could also be staff bias). Kim_Jong_Ben also has an illegal home in the video. MadMMTM assured us that he did not have the home, only Ben did. However, if that is the case, MadMMTM allowed and encouraged Ben to use an illegal set home, and then assisted him in his rule breaking to break a warflag. I am told by another moderator who was monitoring the situation (who you can see in the chat on the server) that "they" deleted "their sethomes", which implies that both MadMMTM and Kim_Jong_Ben had illegal set homes. This is evidence of bias and rule breaking. Here is the video:
The following I do not have video evidence of but is an indisputable fact as the management and administration will be forced to agree that MadMMTM was in God mode while he was in a fight:
MadMMTM in God mode bowing us while we are trying to flag DPRK. After he is told to stop bowing us in God mode, he simply blocks our bow shots so we can't hit the people that are shooting at us.
I complain in a ticket, and we also all begin complaining on the server to MadMMTM who says that he's "not in the way". After complaints by us en masse, I am told that he has been put out of God mode. MadMMTM says that he 'got it disabled for us'.
After being taken out of God mode, we bow him off of a high platform that should kill him several times. You may be aware, when you have /fly enabled you do not take fall damage. Because of this, he does not die from fall damage, either from jumping in the fall trap or from being bowed off during the fight.
The God mode was given to him as staff privilege to record for the server. He abused this to not die in a fight. Only after we complained en masse and he was worried that he would get in trouble did he ask for it to be disabled, not when he was fighting us or any time before that during the 2 hour period he was unneutral, warring, and in God mode.
He used his staff privilege to encourage rule breaking by several people and to dissuade MLG from punishing rule breakers.
He used his staff privilege to deliver information to our side on our enemies during KOTH and to offer us safe TPs into the KOTH where we could fight (such as tping Asdeo into the middle of KOTH).
I do not think MadMMTM should be staff.
I will include more as I can think of it.
ah shit, here we go again.