Hi all,
I just had an unpleasant experience with a staff member.
I made an offhanded remark about a global event in the chat, and this opened up a broad debate with multiple members in the chat.
After defending my position to an attack by a Moderator among others, when it was clear the Moderator was defending "not great" positions, I was threatened to be muted for talking politics when the moderator had just been doing the same thing for 15 minutes.
I was not originally talking about politics, I simply made a comment about China, and it's really annoying that a Moderator can just threaten to mute me because they picked an argument they were losing.
It would be much more honorable to conclude with "you've made a lot of strong points, and given me much to think about. I think we can end this debate" rather than forcefully threatening muting etc... when talking about global events is not even against the rules. many people on the server at the time participated in the topic so it's not like it was even an unpopular conversation.
This supression of ideas and differing views is embarassing and shows a lack of maturity, which is why I'm asking for an admin to review the logs on Tekkit SMP from 10:30am PST 4/18/2025 and rule whether "muting players for discussing global events" is in fact a valid threat in line with the rules of the server. I see nothing about this in the rules, so if Admin thinks talking about global events is Soooo terrible, they should add it to the rules, or stop threatening to mute otherwise innocent players over - essentially - nothing.
With high regards and appreciation,
Ellie <3
