Apology to Burritoh and a general message to trolls

I would like to first address my post to fellow "trolls" on the forums and I guess I would identify as one of these people but after I assessed this situation I will gravitate from that type of behavior. We have a serious problem, everything is all fun an games until someone gets hurt and in this case we severely hurt Burritoh's feelings. He had no malicious intent and only did good yet we met him with insults simply because some of us felt he was seeking attention. Upon further review if I or others didn't like his joke threads we simply could have not viewed them and not given them attention. Instead we verbally attacked him and made him contemplate leaving the server and ironically many of us are a part of this "Make Meep Great Again" mumbo jumbo when we are in fact a part of the problem. There is no excuse for this kind of behavior and as a respected member of the community among old players I would like to ask you to apologize to Burritoh but you can do that privately and not publicly if you wish, inbox him and show him we really didn't have the malicious intent we gave off. The only way we will improve as a server is to be more receptive of other players and we are certainly not making Meepcraft better by driving those who wish to help out. Sure, looking back things could have handled better, warning points could have been issued early to shut down this despicable behavior but it was left alone not due to turning a blind eye but just a lack of awareness. However, that in no way justifies the type of behavior I observed and took part in. On a side note I heard that some staff may have partaken in this type of behavior and just speaking as a former staff that isn't acceptable but that doesn't make it acceptable as simply a player either. As staff you are tasked with representing the server and someone that wishes to help should not be isolated by anyone, especially staff members. Plainly put, we took the joke way too far.

A separate section for a whole different type of "trolling" aka plain harassment that is disgusting on so many levels. I heard that someone actually told Burritoh to kill himself (you know who you are). You stooped to a level below VKL_ReWindz (sorry Frank) who is regarded as probably the most toxic and worst Meepcraft player that has been on the server. Your comment is disgusting and he did nothing to warrant that kind of hate speech directed at him. I talked to him on Skype, he was genuinely upset as a whole by others that may have thought they were joking but you.... you are a disgrace to the server and you should be removed. You have no place in this community nor any other gaming community out there. Telling someone to kill themselves when they already feel vulnerable is plain disgusting and I don't think there's anything you can do to make it up to him because you truly don't mean it. I won't even encourage you to apologize because you won't truly mean it nor will it change Burritoh's view of you.

On to my personal message to Burritoh, I apologized extensively on Skype so I think I may be beating a dead horse at this point. I in no way wanted to upset you to the point where you felt alienated and I initiated this type of behavior with the "charge back" comment and for that I am sorry. You did nothing wrong yet I met you with only harsh words and it wasn't right. I love this server and I in no way wanted to play a part in driving a member away that is a genuinely a good person, and so generous to others in this community. I sincerely apologize for what I have done and from now on I will part ways from my trolling past. I hope you reconsider the community and me as a whole and change your point of view. Yes, I was a toxic player but this situation brought awareness and I will part ways with my former self. No one wants to see you go, staff don't, Fuzzlr doesn't, and regular players don't want to see you go. Please reconsider the server and dismiss mine, and many others' unwarranted actions that are truthfully regretted.

 

Thank you, Kazarkas. I accept your apology whole heartedly. I appreciate you doing this. It did hurt me when you kept on. You've realized some things that others just won't. It seems you've changed for the better, and that is what everyone should do to make meep a better place. Why the, "it's iver screen posts"? Why the "you don't know them so it doesn't matter, so I can make fun of you because we don't know each other" posts? Why doesn't everyone just stop and TRY to make it better instead of "things will not get better because -----" it doesn't matter, just try! It won't ever get better unless you try to make it better. Meep has potential. Great things are bubbling behind the scenes. New players will flood in like they did a year ago, and you all need to be prepared. I'd seen someone say, "hate all these citz in /g". Dint say that! They probably can't afford it, or they probably aren't allowed to get anything with money, let them have fun. I remember when I couldn't log in to meep there were so many people. Back then one main perk of buying a rank was, "log in when server is full". That's was amazing back then! Now they have an 1000 player cap instead of 300, and they have it for a reason. Players will boom, and hopefully meep will boom. I wish the best for meep in the coming times.

 

What in gods name did he ever do except buy ranks and be a little eccentric? He buys ranks for people and then some other people tell him mean things for absolutely no reason except that he had a bad past?? wtf?