I have no idea what was going on with the Banana Joe thing and I easily could have came in at a bad time. I know that the good guys are trolls (sometimes) and I'm not totally oblivious, but I was more so talking about the thing with rygor. I am totally speaking in a point of neutrality here because I don't know the full story, but rygor was saying that the IA team used to constantly make fun of his disability. If I was a random that had just joined the discord, saw that, and then saw BoM's reply of "did you complain?" which, respectfully, is like the worst excuse I have ever seen, I would leave, instantly. Aside from my response, you have to understand why that looks really, really bad to any new players. In rygor's defense, can you not see the problem of someone getting made fun of by the people that run this community? Can you understand why rygor might be a little intimidated to complain, because the people that he can complain to are the ones making fun of him?
The whole thing with the discord being distasteful, once again I could have come in at a bad time, but, it's also not the first time I have seen shit like that before. In response to what I said before, about 'regulars going to their own servers', I know for a fact that are many groups of people that are still very active on video games in general, and for certain reasons do not come to the main discord. I know that many staff members are in these servers and know what they're like. They have a sense of community. They enjoy their own server a hell of a lot more than the SG one. Do you think that these groups of people went to their own discord because they felt like, or because they didn't like the atmosphere at SG anymore? That's for you to decide, but I can confidently say that I know the answer to that.
I am, for the times that I can even play, very active on the CS:GO servers. It literally pains me that I have been here for nearly 4 years and seeing the servers like this. Like I said before, there are groups of many old/new regulars that would still be willing to play the servers if the servers were actually populated. The roots are that this is a CS:GO gaming community. Personally, and this is my opinion, us moving away from that is what finally killed off our servers. I go in the main discord a few days a week to try and get people on scrim. It's not like I'm drastically changing the servers forever, but I'm doing what I can as an admin. I feel like there's just no willingness to do anything anymore. Maybe that was a problem with our recent staff and maybe the new ones have answers. I give my best of luck and wishes to the new staff and the ones that actually care. To the ones that don't care and do this just to hold a higher rank than everyone else, fuck you.
The main point I was trying to get at in my original post is that there is no way that you can sit here and tell me that our community as a whole is in a better place than it was at any point in its life. The sense of community is gone, things need to change, people need to change, and being ignorant and stubborn to the problems isn't going to help anyone. Maybe start by trying to better repair relationships with the members and staff, because, afaik, this has been a problem for a long time.