Okay... First I'm just gonna say that getting on and seeing this kind of shitstorm is not good for the nerves, I feel kinda drained and not happy with how things are going. I like this forum, I like a lot of its users and I consider it a special place forged by the strange bonds between a bunch of strangers that decided to stick together to discuss their favorite hobby, that without a doubt, is a wonderful thing.
But today all of that has been shaken, the stability of this place has been shaken, the trust and image of Proctor and the other jannies that the users had has been shaken. It is ironic that tako's last action was to cause the biggest amount of chaos possible without even doing anything.
I don't think banning tako was wrong in essence. I didn't particularly mind him and I even liked talking to him at times and we bonded somewhat through the mc server, but it is undeniable that the guy was a shitstirrer alike that of /vt/ and most of his existence apart from looking for 2-views was entirely centered around that. I don't think he should've been banned for that honestly, I don't agree with it, the only point that convinces me here is directly going into kir's DMs to try and fuck with her, that is the kicker for me and pushes me ever so slightly across the line from disagree to agree.
The banning of short I don't agree with at all though, even if he was throwing punches and kicks indiscriminately, the banning of rat I agree with less (even if temporary), banning people who disagree, even if in an illogical, angered state where they refuse to word their objections in a cordial way is wrong. Nobody is banning Proctor for being (understandably) angered, so why should others have to take the fall there?
And then we get to the real issue at the center of all of this: Proctor himself. Listen Proctor because I am speaking without mockery, without sarcasm, without an ounce of bad faith:
I think you're a good guy, as I tried to say before you began to die from laughter when I called in to your stream it takes a lot of balls to be the one to take the plunge and gather a group of hopeless, tired people who have been caught up in an internet war not of their own, that takes conviction.
I respect your ideals and your will to make a SANE place to discuss vtubers, that is wholly admirable and anyone who thinks otherwise is nothing more than an anarchist schizophrenic.
I don't know you personally, but I want to believe you're a reasonable, logical and down-to-earth person who thinks before acting and does what he preaches. You said it yourself, you're the captain of this ship, and you have absolute power. But such things also carry absolute responsibilities, you have as much a responsibility to us as we have to you, if you aren't a good captain then we will jump ship or mutiny, consider how many heads you will have to cut off in that instance.
I think I like and respect you more than most here, my personality makes me impossibly loyal to leaders I find worthy of respect and I will do anything to defend and uphold what such leaders have built and their vision.
But you do have flaws. We all do. Your manner of expressing yourself is extremely pompous at times, and when people are angry at you it can feel downright condescending. Your way of trying to claim absolute moral superiority is distasteful, specially when everyone here is more-or-less equal in social standing without our irl selves to back us up. In your scramble to regain control you're sounding a lot like the spiteful vision of a jannie a lot of people have, even if you don't mean to.
This whole fiasco came at the wrong place, at the wrong time, I admit that a lot of people who got angry probably didn't even stop to think when they began insulting you. But you are doing the same, you're pissed off and you're arguing with people who don't want to discuss ANYTHING with you, instead of settling your head and sticking to your guns you're just wrestling in the mud with the other drunkards. You SHOULD know fullwell how our kind views authority, we were not in kf for nothing, this situation was unfortunate but you're only making it worse. I seriously suggest you log off and go do something else then come back, I don't want to know how many heads are going to fly at this point.
That brings me to my last point and what has me worried. The asylum has been shaken to its core today. I don't know how many people have lost faith or are actively antagonistic at the moment, I don't know how long it will take for people to stop caring and settle down or grumble away their complaints. Tako himself will surely become a dedicated anti of this place and bend all of his autism and time to antagonizing us from now on, only making people in the homeland less welcoming. The air is tense today and I don't know for how long it will be that way, some people are laughing it off and mocking those who got banned but I'm worried, and I can't be the only one.
As I said in the discord earlier I feel like I'm a lot like tako, barring the DMs thing (which I find morally reprehensible) I act much in the same way of messing with others and antagonizing them for my own amusement. This is the way I chose to be and I don't mean harm with it, but the way this banning was carried out (what a lot of people seem to take issue with) the lack of warnings, the poor timing of it being kir, the fact that it was on discord and not here (reinforcing beliefs that discord is some kind of sekrit club cesspool), I think it has put the idea in a lot of people's heads: "Who will be the next tako?".
I can only say that I hope you reflect upon what I said here, I know this whole place is meant to be a silly, funny pastime, but I don't want the asylum to break apart from internal gay squabbles over stupid issues, this is a crossroads, the so called "jumping the shark" moment, I hope to god you choose well because you're the captain of this ship. In my opinion you should unban short and stop asking for private apologies from people for unbans, that kind of thing sounds incredibly condescending atm. I will not comment on this thread again and I will probably be less active for a while since I'm judging the situation.