And so, the time has come.
Flowerbed MC, the “safe space” minecraft server, is anything but.
This server advertises itself as an LGBTQ+ Safe Space server for people of all ages. while in the background, the owner of this server, a cishet white man, feels that things like a topics blacklist, are “too much” to deal with.
This post will be broken up into sections, discussing their behavior towards the community, fellow staff, and blatant disregard for their build team
No names will be used, and for those from the server who may be reading this, this post is of my own fruition.
Where to begin, from their blatant disregard for transparency, their cold, and outright rude responses to questions as a reprocussion of that lack of transparency, and the belittlement / blatant disrespect of players within their staff channels.
I myself am a victim of this, when I first joined the server, staff would call out any little thing I did for the simple fact that they didn’t like me. But the thing is, when they felt I was doing something wrong, nothing would actually be said to ME, but would just fester within their staff chat. It was brought to my attention by a now ex staff member, and good friend. I left the server several timed due to this, as it greatly effected my mental health in a negative way
Wether with maintenance announcements, server resets, or lying about why 5 of their staff members suddenly “left” the server, their transparency towards their playerbase is all but nonexistent.
During the time the server was In 1.16, the world was corrupted, and was down from October 15th 2020, to November 7th 2020. And there were No updates to how developement was going. And players were met with cold, useless responses. While at this time, their staff team began to fray.
STAFF ISSUES / THOSE OF US WHO WERE BANNED
Once again, where to begin. From the time the current owner took the position, their staff team was split, Admins Vs. Mods / helpers.
please note that I am speaking merely as a secondary source.
On several occasions, the owner both directly and indirectly called out their helpers for calling out decisions and actions by the admins / owner that made them uncomfortable, and dehumanized them to merely “a group of traitors”. The owner has gaslit and manipulated specifically the admin team, but in general the whole staff team, to listen to him.
One of the decisions in protest, was after a user with a rainbow confederate flag cape, and a transphobic username joined the server, to which they were simply met with a name change within the server. The user wasn’t banned until 3 staff members were reprimanded for their reactions, the owner specifically telling a Trans / POC staff member that he overreacted to the situation.
• Those Of Us Who Were Banned
6 Of us were banned, from both the discord and the server. 5 out of 6 being prior staff. For calling out the owners blatant tyranic attitude over the server, and when asked about their staff shortage, the owner made an announcement saying that they “left for the benefit of their mental health”, sweeping this whole situation under the rug, and silencing all of us.
The build team made an absolutely beautiful spawn, and many other amazing builds, to which they were given absolutely 0 recognition or credit for. After their december monthly build, they were told that monthly builds took up too many recourses, and that they wouldn’t continue them.
I won’t go into too much detail here, as im not aware of specifics, but I am aware that there were countless instances of deadnaming, and misgendering.
There were also several instances of the owner trying to disregard the server rules and blacklist topics, invalidating staff, and players triggers. Because they didn’t effect him.
This server is anything BUT a safe space. And I highly recommend finding another server. And for the staff team reading this, I hope you take these words not as an attack, but as an eye opener.
almost every member of their admin team has immaturely, and irrationally, insulted me and my friends in their replies, the owner made a baseless and very extreme accusation that I was some form of child predator. which has been very solidly refuted in the replies to this post.
They have deactivated their tumblr, and have not made a single announcement to their community about what has happened. almost all of them have blocked me, removing their replies, which I have screenshots of. I had to personally block two of them. For what one said in his reply triggering my anxiety. And the other spamming my inbox asking me to delete her replies.