Weâve actually had two major run-ins with exclusionist groups.
One group joined, caused chaos, and continuously circumvent rules trying to convince us (staff) not to ban them because they were âentitled to the spaceâ even though half of them were later revealed to be completely allosexual and alloromantic, in a server explicitly for a-specs. This ultimately resulted in them sending outright violent death wishes to some of the staff members.
The second, more recent group was much worse, though.
Infiltrated under completely false pretenses. All of them were part of an exclusionist group, which centered around two charismatic adults with an unhealthy amount of power over the others.
Created a literal hate server for the exclusive purpose of mocking us, as well as formulating weirdly intricate and obsessive plans for hurting the staff and members of the server. (More on the hate server below)
Stalked a member to the server, and relayed private information to their past abusers.
Created a multitude of fake accounts specifically to mock staff members. One in particular was a fake child persona, played by an adult, who was crafted as a mockery of an autistic staff memberâs special interests and autistic traits.
Sent threats of violence and suicide baiting to multiple staff members.
Made explicitly sexual comments to multiple underage members in the server.
Posted literal swastikas, antisemitic slurs, and other racist and nazi imagery- all for the sake of causing distress among users.
Stirred up arguments and attacked random users for (usually) extremely minor offenses in an attempt to cause distress and chaos in the server.Â
In their private hate server, they:
Had a âminorsâ channel that all adults had access to. Minors were encouraged to use it to discuss personal sex lives.
Had a sexually explicit âadultsâ channel, and gave select minors access to this channel without their consent.
Held server-wide conversations about personal fetishes lead by adults
Created a flag for one adultâs fetish in collaboration with a minor, and used it as the profile picture for one of the fake accounts in our server- which had users as young as 12 and 13.
(To be clear, staff has cleared all of these members from our server, tightened security, and changed policies to make sure this canât happen again.)
We have to have something like 12 staff in a server with about 10-25 members online at any given moment.
Exclusionists are not entitled to our spaces, and as long as they continue working to destroy a-spec-only spaces, they donât get to talk about how we ~should just make our own community.~ We do. We have been. A lot of exclusionists are personally seeking out and destroying them.
(Also, exclusionists can do some nasty shit and need to deal with the predatory grooming and abuse in their communities.)
