The Slowmode of 14 December 2020

On 14 December 2020, a mix of broken Discord Community Guidelines, wild chat conversations, and moderator frustration resulted in a slowmode issued on most channels.
== Unmoderated Chat ==
Several users engaged in discussions about effective means of suicide, going unmoderated for too long (5 minutes, allegedly). Even when a moderator stepped in to end the topic, the conversation continued. Eventually chat moved on from that conversation but then brought up deleting users, channels, and the ultimatum of deleting the server. 
Mods experimented with editing role permissions so that users who did not have a character role could not chat. This was shortly recalled.
The topic of "speedrunning" a server ban from another server was brought up and a couple users were colluding for it. While one person intentionally getting themselves banned is bad enough, plotting a server raid to all get banned is against Community Guidelines. 
== The Slowmode ==
At 3:06 PM EST, the first shot rang. A minute-long slowmode was imposed on . This was met with substantial backlash, with harsh criticisms directed at especially the moderator team, who reacted smugly to the opposition.ok stop you guys aren't helping with anything with your complaints. What's happening right now is we're trying to salvage the situation and once that is done, everything will return to normalUsers liberally used reactions to reply to each other, as well as channel hopped to take advantage of channels without slowmode. Several purists opposed the channel hopping as they claimed it would ruin the pure sanctity and chill vibe of . Eventually, slowmode was imposed on almost every channel, with bearing the longest time of 5 minutes. was one of the channels spared of slowmode, and a few users sought refuge there.
Users posted memes and videos in , contrary to convention, in opposition to the moderation. The Slowmode deterred a good handful of users, who consequently left the server.
At 3:45 PM EST, the slowmode was recalled from , and from other channels in the minutes that followed.
== The Aftermath ==
Slowmode was maintained in , but later reduced to 10 seconds from the former 5 minutes.
In response to the ending of slowmode, Mayo posted the announcement at 3:53 PM EST:We want to keep the conversations in this server wholesome and not about anything negative. I have told the mods that anybody who talks about something like that and ignores any warning, that they should either ban or mute them immediately.
Category:Events