Rowdy Romao

You're a lot more cordial in messages and I appreciate you being so polite but there is no changeing my perception on how the incident was delt with, no doubt I was frustrated over the inflamation of a non-issue but not hearing the opposing side out is not quite peacekeeper material. I left the general area after you kept repeating the phrases and felt it was going nowhere, I should've made a post in discord or something but I generally avoid bitching and usually just ignore or deal with it until I have a serious issue, makes your guys lives a lot easier too... I think there should be a standard met instead of giving into every little cry about irrelevent crap. In any case I'll eat the ban with the agreement that you'll talk to and keep an eye on the young player I had the lovely interaction with, epitome of comedy making monkey noises when hearing africa. Will see if the server is still desirable after the ban, not a great experience so far but apologies for further contributing to the issue. Thanks

I think I'm allowed to be annoyed when you are reprimanding one half of the people involved and completely glossing over when I stated he made noises, unles my mic or your headset is broken I definitely brought it up, my friends came there after I mentioned it over discord. Even I was gobsmacked a single barrel caused such an issue, infact the reason I was so inflamatory was because I was met with such rudeness and uncreative *racism* from Hiro over a single barrel on the road near his house. crazy to me. I kept repeating sentences because you arrogantly kept repeating vague phrases over the top of me and had no idea how on earth this non-issue needed to be dealt with. Both players weren't even there, it was me and my friends. He ran away after I called him out. Yes I know building the house wasn't the right thing to do but seeing as how my complaints went unheard because i didnt bring it up on discord is immensely frustrating, I joined today to see. I've alwasy used a megaphone, payed for the DLC so gonna use it, he's welcome to turn it down or mute me. Which opportunity are you referring to, the one where you told me to stop talking in main chat or where you constantly spoke over me? I wasn't in the discord, didnt know you even had one until my brother mentioned it. As I mentioned before, and you know from "verbal warnings" it's hard to produce evidence from unrecorded audio but I do have my brother and friend who were present when i was calling him out on discord. I've already mentioned how i know i was in the wrong, not a bad guy but don't often complain about issues and so for being a little more robust than a kid crying over a barrel I must pay the price. I just think telling me I didn't mention the noises is willfully ignorant and because I am white i didnt take it too personally, that is my home country though and i don't apprecaite it. You should have a conversation with Hiro about children spouting racist remarks within your "friendly" server. I'd feel a lot more comfortable speaking with another admin who hasn't had a hand in the issue and isn't biased based on past interactions when i was upset from being targetted by uncreative racist remarks.

Recently I was banned for toxic behaviour as I retaliated towards an individual who initially replied with racist remarks, I made a comment on my recent Ban report on the forum so refer to that for more context if necessary. I'm not trying to make an unban appeal as I can see my wrongdoing but I don't think I'll be rejoining because of the bad taste left from the actions, or lack there of, taken towards toxicity and fair justice. An incident between myself and a player called "Hiro" happened over seemingly nothing and I feel the manner in which Micheal dealt with the issue was not appropriate. The initial issue was trivial, I'm sure Micheal would agree, but Micheal's complete disregard for my complaints when confronting a toxic individual about responding with racist remarks was completely unprofessional considering someone has entrusted him with keeping the peace. He came after seeing the complaint in main chat and instead of listening to me he nonchalantly repeated phrases like "I don't care, you both are immature, both of you need to grow up..." over and over, completely drowning me out with no interest in caring about the offensive actions taken by the other player, who was no longer present by the way. His idea of telling us both to be quiet and fairly keeping everyone content was arrogantly avoiding what I was saying by speaking over me. These were his "3 verbal warnings." A short but frustrating interaction I gave up and left with my party, I asked my brother to make a post concerning the less than subtle racism thrown towards us and our home country as well as the lack of fair treatment. Considering we didn't take it to heart, that this is the internet and we've been exposed to that many times before, we weren't expressely bothered and he didn't follow through. Seeing my Ban report now frustrates me as the moderator Micheal completely glosses over the previous issue and makes me out to be some toxic vandaliser only wanting to maliciously troll or ruin someone else's time so I felt the need to bring some attention to it. I usually keep to myself and considering every other interaction on the server has been quite decent and the players come accross as nice people I don't think the server is necessarily a toxic place but rather the moderator lacks training in conflict resolution. Dealing with toxic and overtly offensive content proves troublesome no doubt but to completely disregard it and make me out to be solely the guilty party after being targeted is morally unjust. I wasn't sure who to contact or if this is the right place so please excuse my mistake if it's posted on the incorrect forum. If I could get in contact with another moderator or perhaps someone who is incharge of supervising the assigned moderators I'd be grateful. Thank you, Rowdy Romao

"Player has received a verbal warning 3 times regarding leaving a player alone after first notice of harassment..." The man exclaimed in all chat that I was "harassing" him after I broke a barrel outside of his house, I don't understand how you can claim an entire road by simply living near it and how on earth that's considered harassment. I thought this was absolutely absurd but not surprising, this same person had complained about other players on the street for trivial things like my friend hooting too close (he lives next door) and another for building too close to him. It's frustrating playing a multiplayer game with people who don't enjoy sharing a space and prefer to be toxic and then claim to be the victim. This same individual is the one who we had problems with for stealing Heli loot and looting the recycler at Oxum's Gas Station when we were using it but we dealt with it a lot more civily. He clearly has no desire to enjoy the space with others or even consider the other people in the server. The reason I've quoted Micheal's report is because I remember the interaction when Hiro called for help. I remember breaking the barrel, him complaining and I dropped the like 8 scrap and whatever object in it while asking what I did wrong, I really didn't care. The interaction was about two minutes and him being toxic in voice chat before going silent (I imagine he muted me). What was said from me was something along the lines of "Dude I really don't care about it, have it. Why are you making me a villain" yada yada... He asked basic questions like "why are you trolling me, why are you even here" and "where are you from?" Thinking he was now being somewhat decent and we were actually conversing I told him I'm from South Africa to which he replied with Monkey noises. Hiro, the player complaining about harassment, repsonded with racism towards me after exaggerating a non-incident over a small sum of scrap coming from public loot. He went silent and ran away shortly after, I imagine knowing what he did was wrong. The moderator "The_Real_Micheal" arrived shortly after and my friends came because I'd told them about the racist kid on our street. So Micheal flies in reprimanding me for harassment and this frustrates me as instead of listening to my side he constantly repeats over me and my friends "I don't care, you both are immature, both of you need to grow up..." and other vague phrases not letting me speak and not realising the other party he was supposedly repirmanding wasn't even present. Micheal was more interested in dealing with the player that had cried over chat about a non-issue that he wouldn't even hear my point and I asked my brother, who's on the Discord and VIP'd to write a complaint about racism thinking he has a bit more leeway as a paying player. I really didn't want to deal with a moderator who had no interest in listening to the player base equally. His "verbal warnings" were talking over me instead of hearing anyone out. Every person I've interacted with on this server has been immensely nice and decent, I've met some cool people who have joined our discord server as well but the only two people that consistantly spam main chat with complaints, and that other players have issues with, are Hiro and Mendro. I'm certain Micheal will be familiar with both players as it seems they create most of his work as a moderator dealing with trivial issues and becoming toxic after being called out, Mendro all caps ranting in main chat as well as telling me I was a harassing player after their friend responded with racism towards me. Mendro was removed for directly addressing Micheal rudely and questioning his power, the whole thing started when she lost her temper for someone simply entering her air balloon... I don't deny taking my retaliation and poetic justice too far but I have a problem with oversensitive individuals who are willing to revert to offensive tactics and cry first to appeal to the person in power. I wish I was recording when the interaction took place but sadly not, I do however have two witnesses to and ask either Hiro goes under investigation for his racist interactions or I strongly suggest a reanalysis into Micheal's position of moderating power. He was unwilling to hear the opposing party and I don't think disregarding individuals is a desirable characteristic for someone incharge of maintaining peace. P.S. I actaully didn't realise I was base blocking and apologise for that.