Before I give this breakdown let me point out that I was very active in games with the "old mid sh community" in this lobby before they left. I know both sides of the story and to be honest with you there's a lot of stuff they did that I let slide. I don't think there was one time that I muted or banned them because that's just the cool guy I am and because some particular members of the staff were already doing it for me.
Captain Nemo wrote:the mid sh community of aoc was immature and always pushing the limits
True (debatable). They were getting small mutes often. They were not willing to recognize that this lobby was different from the old one and that the ownership wanted a few simple policies to be obeyed. The only people to get anything severe were Icestorm (muted until 2014) for mouthing off big time (see below), and eeralf (banned) for a very insensitive comment about the September 11th attacks in addition to some other garbage at the time of that comment. Binary was handing out mutes with an iron fist, which they surely did not like, and so they pushed his limits to the extreme. However, after this was going on for some time and Icestorm got essentially perma-muted, they all decided to leave.
Captain Nemo wrote:no wonder they all got a ban.
False.
Captain Nemo wrote:Only wonder was why enigma got one since he's one of the sensible ones.
Don't remember. Definitely not a ban, don't remember mute length. Wasn't me, otherwise I'd know.
Captain Nemo wrote:I think that was binary's doing tho, and we all know how he turned out.
True and false. Binary made the decision to strictly uphold the rules. Of course, this made him out to be the bad guy. We know what happened there and we aren't denying it. Since then, it has been our policy to relax them. A lot. That might only be possible because of what happened in the past, because over time we reversed some of the bad habits from the old lobby. Do I know that for sure? No. That theory just came to mind and I'm not going to take the effort to think about it more because I can't change past.
About Icestorm mouthing off to Nola:
Essentially, after some little baby mutes that amounted to pretty much nothing, Icestorm decided that he was going to get extremely vocal with Nola over the lobby. After some words were exchanged, he ended up saying something along the lines of "this lobby is a total piece of shit" but with some more elaboration. The elaboration was enough to make any person who read the statement to 100% believe that he was serious about it and not using it solely as an insult. Nola, as well as myself I'd like to add, believe that if you don't like the lobby then you can just fuck off. We've invested enough time and effort into building and running the lobby and this website that we deserve some amount respect. However, Nola is a little bit quicker on the trigger finger than I am, so it resulted in a massive Icestorm mute. I think Icestorm banned Nola from the MPA forums too so that may have had something to do with it.