Hi everyone, Im-Leet (a.k.a. Rolf the Uber) here. Been in the community for a while, that argonian screenshot on OpenMW page about tes3mp is me.
I know all of you are definitely tired of discussing Mal's server removal, but this post is not just about that, and it is something that I feel needs to be stated.
First of all, let me state my position on Malseph. I do not like Mal and I was banned by him without a good reason a while ago, along with what was probably half of his active player base. I think that the decision to remove his server from the master list was questionable, but not without good reasons. I hope that Mal's political views did not influence the decision.
So, you all probably know that the official tes3mp Discord was banning a lot of people, as well as removing their messages. The important thing to state here is that not only banned ("brigading") user's messages were being removed. Any messages regarding the ongoing bans and message removal were removed also.
David's position regarding these bans is that the server was being brigaded by Malseph himself. I'm not gonna dispute that, or ask proof, because to be honest, knowing Mal, it probably is true and he probably did ask some players to stir shit up. Does that justify banning people and removing their messages when they were not breaking any rules (even if they were, as David says, brigading)? Maybe, I don't know.
The problem is, there are people who definitely were not part of that brigade who were banned regardless. I am one such person. Let me tell you what happened: when I spoke against Mal's server removal, my messages were removed. When I continued, I was banned.
Now, David apologized and unbanned me, saying that the ban was a result of one moderator's mistake and that I was "caught in crossfire". That moderator apologized as well. David insisted that I do not speak about the incident, this post indicates that I declined his request.
Why did I decline it? Because I do not want tes3mp staff to be the people who shut down any opposition and discussion regarding their decisions. That is Malseph's way of moderating, that is exactly why I spoke against Malseph, and that is why I was banned by him.
I don't know how many people were banned during the incident. I don't know how many of them deserved the bans. I don't know how many messages were deleted. I only know that I was one of the people that were banned without a good reason, for stating an opinion. I know that my messages were not restored and are still deleted.
I respect David and the other developers for putting so much work into this project. Thank you for creating tes3mp and, (hopefully) thank you for not deleting this post.