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I for one welcome our new pirate overlords.

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Is this where I accuse you of being a red armband boy enabler?

I never thought I would have to say this... but I hope you will pull a nokia and come back tomorrow. All the best

Micro moment Also happy birthday. Though you still can't drink yet.

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Now now, don't get too comfy in your retirement, I'll see you in the front lines come next war.

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@Historia Reiss First of all, thank you for bringing this to our attention. Albeit I can't say I'm not a little saddened to see that you chose to report this on forums, to Alex and other moderators, i.e to people who have no jurisdiction over RON (though that obviously doesn't mean to say we wouldn't ban hate speech had Alex reached out), and chose not to reach out to us, the people who can and will ban them. In the future, if there is a problem similar to this please don’t hesitate to confront me, Putmir, Changeup, Scott or any staff member directly. I can assure you, RON does not stand for any kind of hate speech. We endeavour to moderate our server properly and promptly, but as things stand Changeup, me and Putmir have rather pressing irl issues, and can't 24/7 keep #the-balkans (our general chat) in check, especially when that channel is particularly active, as was the case when those comments were made. Although we generally tend to be around to moderate it, some messages may slip out of our notice, but we will ban such offenses on sight, and I had already banned one other transphobic person on that day at the time I was around for that chat. To help us with the burden of moderating, we even recently promoted another staff member to admin, which will go a long way in keeping our server clean, however we would certainly appreciate if things were brought up to us directly, instead of us being informed about it over a forum report days later, or our entire server being reported to Discord Trust & Safety without us being informed, for comments an individual who has no relation to RON made (as has happened once in the past, which is why I'm constantly reiterating, letting the admins, us, know is of paramount importance.) Update: We recently created a support category, so that people can use it alongside dms to have immediate action taken.

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I'm amazed how you can spew this drivel and believe it, honestly. You gotta stoop to new lows to be so salty that you will bash (slander with nothing but lies) an event that's meant to be fun and engaging for the whole community just because your alliance got a nomination you didn't like. This is why we can't have nice things. Just gonna note; this salt, peddling a false narrative and slander are coming from a Camelot gov member, are we surprised? I can see why your alliance got the nominations it received. Edit: I'm not going to bother pointing out the obvious lies in Epi's post as that was already done by Adrienne above, scroll up for those wondering.

THE RESULTS ARE IN - ARE YOU READY, ORBIS?????? We want to thank you all for joining us through this awards process, whether as a voter or as a representative, in particular for your efforts in nominating and voting on your fellow Orbis citizens. We've enjoyed seeing all your nominations and watching your excitement grow as we neared the end. Without any further ado, here are your 2020 PnW Academy Awards winners! If you missed the awards show and would like to listen to it, you can do so here. If you'd like to view each of the rounds (including all the nominations, shortlisting and counting), you can find all information on that here. Congratulations to all the winners! We look forward to seeing you again next year -Your 2020 PnW Academy Awards Committee

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"Adrienne, i can't hear you". "Oh I can hear her, she said..., wait, adri, can you come again?" lol

May I also receive the logs? I have not once seen any sort of untoward behaviour towards any nominee. [Though to be fair I interact with the nominees very rarely - and only with the ones I personally know anyway]

To my knowledge, there have been absolutely 0 such cases, since primarily it is Adrienne who interacts with them [the "them" here being the nominees, for clarification], and her character speaks for itself. If you believe something like this happened, do point us to it, instead of calling for the end of awards as a whole. Could you elaborate?

Actually no, I am not, Daveth (our dear leader who stays in the offshore and thus mostly goes unnoticed) represented Carthago. And in the past I had my fair share of problems about the awards. In the past years my qualms were more "Why does my alliance leader not ask me about my opinion and just vote on his own?" which I eventually brought up with him as well as our alliance to make amends, and I can speak for my alliance in saying that they were fixed. I obviously don't know how t$ reps go about this process, but maybe voicing your concerns with them (about the lack of members voice being represented) might be fruitful. I figure in some major/bigger alliances, it is harder to have everyone's input. I see your point, which is fair, it's questionable why people picked that, but I think that's a problem due to the people who voted for that post, instead of the system as a whole being corrupt/mislead.

Calling bias doesn't help if your nominations got shortlisted, especially because at the end of the day people are picking what they themselves like, and not what trying to find one un-offensive post "everybody" likes. It should be noted, that a vast majority of the playerbase doesn't frequent the forums. Moreover, on the forums, a person can upvote more than one post, in unlimited amounts to my understanding, but in the voting process, they have to pick very limited amounts, which ends up being something like "Which post do I find funnier?" (in this specific case). For what it's worth, not even your alliance's representative voted for your nomination.

I gather you're hurt because your nominations didn't get past the shortlisting stage. If spending countless hours planning and organizing these constitutes disrespect to you, then I don't know what to tell you.

For clarification, getting nominated by either a person or an alliance representative 100% means you get in the shortlist. However, being nominated doesn't mean you will get past the shortlist. That is the case here, Xaria was nominated, but did not receive enough votes in the shortlist, and thus got eliminated.

I suggest you read putmir's reply.

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