Moderator coup d'état

In the morning of 25 February 2021, circa 9:15 AM EST, frustrated mod sentiment spilled into . 
==Context==
Up to this point, the server of more than 4000 members was administrated by just two people, Violet and Mayo. As a result of their apparent inactivity, many active members and moderators felt frustrated with how slow changes and server suggestions were rolling out. 
==Demonstrations in #tea-room==
Hab and Kurylo asked each other whether they would be stepping down from mod soon. Violet happened to be in chat as well, and Waffle demanded that he should "give StuCo first" in response to Violet's "perish". Ran added on that he was "gonna step down soon too". 
Ran explained the situation: "I'm getting a bit tired of the fact that we (mods) run the server almost in its entirety, and we've got 2 admins in a server of over 4000 members who won't promote any more admins despite the fact they're never around," to which Kurylo followed up with: "We addressed this thing months ago." This was, in fact, a long-running issue that the moderator team had been trying to push and address for a while, but nothing had been done. Kurylo stated that he wrote a multitude of essays every week to express his grievances in but 99% of the time would they go ignored or responded to with a "wishy-washy answer that was yes and no at the same time" by the admin duo. 
Waffle re-introduced the (not so new) idea of making "every og mod admin," and declared that he would return to modding if there were more StuCo. Ran revealed that Mayo had talked Violet out of this idea. 
Violet joined in on the conversation at 9:33 AM EST, replying to Ran that he was planning on promoting more StuCo soon. He showed a screenshot of his conversation with Mayo, in which Mayo pointed out that the only difference between admin and mods at that point was the ability to add bots and Violet proposed the idea of merging mods and admin into Staff Team. Violet expressed his concern with taking "this conversation to the general chat" to which Ran and Kurylo retorted that the conversations in felt like talking to a brick wall and that their rants were unfruitful in there. 
Circa 9:40 AM EST, the topic shifted to banned members and the HTT server, as the mods said all that they wanted to say and no further discussion was happening in nor . 
==Changes in Power ==
At 9:52 AM EST, the senior mods (all except Confi and Wonton, who were new mods) changed to purple, the Student Council color. They were promoted with Student Council roles and the new combined role of Staff Team, which replaced Buchou(Mods). In addition, Waffle rejoined the ranks as a Student Council and Staff Team.
The moderators didn't want to hold a sour relationship with the admin team, especially Violet, but they had felt that this change was necessary. No public statements were issued by Violet regarding this.
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