I'm inclined to agree with Disastrous.
Any time the Givens are ever mentioned, and I say this as somebody who has a lot of time and love for Internet, lo and behold, Internet appears and deus ex machinas them out of the situation. Now, I'm not saying there's staff bias, of course not, but I think a lot of people are fucking sick of certain members of the community (not
just the Givens) getting away with murder time and time again.
And if I was Ted Hastings,
As for the staff, Disastrous has kind of summed up my point better than I could. Too much micromanagement of the server, too much power abuse, but at the same time letting
certain members of the community abuse the absolute shit out of the rules and every loophole in them.
I mean, let's be fair at this point, half of the staff team at this point are fucking
scared to deal with the Givens. When I put a PR up on them a few weeks back for a completely valid break of the rules (surprise surprise they ended up getting away with it because the admin that finally did deal with it, Internet, made a "mistake" in his reply) and it went unreplied to for 3 days until I eventually had to actually message a member of staff to get things moved along. The staff don't WANT to deal with the Givens anymore, because it just turns into a complete shit-slinging match.
And as for the rest of the staff, yeah there are a few good, genuinely lovely, motivated staff whose minds are in the right place, but there's also a major activity problem. Staff themselves can't be arsed playing, nevermind the fucking senior staff (HR).