Don't play dumb. Everyone knows that we are the only server on tf2 with that map
And why is that relevant? I'm being 100% truthful here, what I said wasn't intended to be an attack on the server or your port of the map, it was entirely me expressing my opinion on the map itself. I would've said the same thing if it was on Otaku or any other server. I genuinely wasn't trying to be malicious with those comments; maybe I attacked some of your ports specifically in the past, I don't really remember, but this was not one of those instances.
We never banned anyone for no reason. We were extremely lenient
I'm sorry but you have to be absolutely delusional to think anything you've done in the handling of this situation is "lenient". There is not a SINGLE steam community on the planet that hands out punishments as draconian and arbitrary as yours. I could go on GFL CS:GO ZE, (the most successful and popular CSGO community server, mind you) and talk shit about the server and its management all day and not receive anything more than a warning, if that, and what you actually started muting people for was much less severe than that example.
letting your toxic group of friends continually tell every player that lordm did all the work
Nobody ever said this, this entire line of argument is a complete strawman and always has been. Pretty much everybody in the community who was involved in the drama knew that LordM didn't even have access to the source code for the server plugins and only contributed to the development of the server by editing and porting maps, and he himself told us multiple times. Were there a few smoothbrains who thought LordM really did do all the work? Sure, but there's a reason for that, which I'll get into later.
and the only updates that came from me or jermaphobe was bad for many months.
Admittedly, most of this was just tribalist shittalking that didn't need to be said, but at that time there were a lot of genuinely broken and rushed updates to both maps and the server that you guys were pushing out, and there was legitimate criticism to be made of that.
It was only after they started a server, started spamming everyone to leave the server, and spamming the nomination menu that they were perma-muted.
This is completely untrue, you IMMEDIATLY started permamuting players the very day that this drama began, namely Bjornstrongheart, DukeOfJuice, Feebly, Demobanana, and I believe a few others. And if I recall correctly, the official reason you gave was for the mutes was "advertising"...for posting links to a discord server that had been the unofficial home of the community for months at that point.
Then when they started pming people to leave the server
Can you point to any instances of this happening? I never did this, and I don't know of anyone who did other than maybe LordM himself. And again, this was AFTER the initial mutings that made people so angry in the first place.
This was a hoax dude, from what I recall this claim originated from an off color joke that LordM made (I may even still be able to find the screenshot of it somewhere) that was then taken out of context by one of your lackeys and used as an excuse to permaban him well after the fact. If you can present any actual evidence of LordM or anyone else attempting to dox you/your admins, I'd love to see it.
You saw your friends get banned and muted a year ago for doing this and you think you didn't get any warnings? You are either acting or just plain stupid.
Sure, maybe I was playing with fire considering what I already knew but consider this: I had been coming on the server for months, saying more or less the same shit without receiving any punishment whatsoever. Would it not be reasonable, then, for me to assume that what I was saying was within the boundaries of your new rules? And again, I was never issued an actual
formal warning or temp mute from you or other server admins, something that literally every other online gaming community would have done in that situation.
At this point, it's clear to me that you've never really understood why any of this happened or what our actual motives were. That's fine, but I'm going to try to explain it to you so maybe you can understand where we were coming from, and maybe consider loosening your iron fist. I'm not trying to be deceitful, I'm not trying to push an agenda or anything, I'm just trying to tell it as it is. The following is just my recollections of the situation, so feel free to correct me if I get anything wrong.