It has come to my attention that certain individuals have been engaged in what amounts to cyber-bullying other players on our server(s), and in some cases even following those players to other Steam groups or other media to continue their harassment, and that this had been an escalation of a long-standing situation.

Some people apparently have taken advantage of the "light" moderation (lately almost entirely no moderation) on the game-servers (and in some cases language limitations) to engage in bad behavior.

Unfortunately, this has resulted in a long-standing player on our server(s) effectively withdrawing from our community.  While this might have the effect of ending this particular situation, I am not inclined to leave it lay like that - because it leaves those guilty undisciplined, and possibly likely to harass other players in the future.

Consequently, I shortly will be taking the following measures:

• Removing any such alleged bullies from being administrators / moderators in all forms (the Steam Group, in-game server permission, etc.).
• Likely perma-gagging those same parties in-game, to minimize their ability to verbally harass any additional players.  This may also have the effect of cutting them off from certain in-game features that are activated by in-game-text-chat.
• Kicking and banning those same parties from the Steam Group and Discord server.  This may also have the effect of cutting them off from certain in-game features on the servers that require Steam Group membership to utilize.
• Personally unfriending these players in Steam and Discord - where that is applicable.  I have no interest in debating behavior with such people, my patience is exhausted in this matter. 

If those efforts do not prove sufficient to stop the behavior, additional steps may include things like:

• Permanently banning the offending parties from the game-servers entirely, so they can not even play as muted/gagged players.
• Where applicable, reporting harassing behavior in Steam to Valve (FYI), or likewise any similar behavior in Discord to Discord (FYI[support.discord.com]).

Further, I am NOT going to discuss what individuals were involved.  This matter is closed as far as I am concerned.  I will shut-down all such services I am effectively sponsoring (the game-servers, web-related stuff, e-mail, domain-registrations, Discord servers, Steam Groups, etc.) before tolerating this kind of behavior.

PS: A similar announcement will be posted in our other affiliated Steam Group with equivalent actions taken for the same individuals.