Server Deletion Scare

The Server Deletion Scare was a period of time between the 7th and 9th of March 2020 in which it was believed that Crycord could be deleted by Discord staff due to violations of the Discord Terms of Service.

## Background

On the 7th of March, 2020, an extremely heated argument broke out in #meta-discussion regarding the banning of Karotte by the admins, involving Ezra and Cadence defending the decision along with other server members while Chase and Jane attacked it. Afterwards, several people left Crycord (although Chase would briefly return), who would then go on to form another server which included Karotte.

## The Scare

Later on the 7th, Ezra received an email from the Discord Trust & Safety Team which read as follows:

It has been brought to our attention that your server, crycord, has been found in violation of our Terms of Service.
Your server was found to have been promoting self-harm.
We want to give you the opportunity to remove the content from your server. If the content is not removed within 48 hours, your server will be deleted as a violation of our Guidelines.
Sincerely,
Discord Trust & Safety Team

In the 48-hour period that followed, the admin team quickly decided to delete the #suicide and #self-harm channels - while those channels had been very helpful to server members struggling with suicidal ideation and self-harm behaviours, it became clear that they threatened the survival of the rest of the server. Ezra also opened up communication with the Discord Trust & Safety Team, but as they did not respond to her email, the server's fate was unclear while the grace period was in effect. Another notable occurrence during this time was the temporary banning of poop on pig balls.

As the deadline approached, some users began reminiscing about their experiences with Crycord:

The rules were relaxed during the last few hours, and an @everyone ping brought some mild chaos to the server.

## The Aftermath

### Investigation

The idea that the scare could have been linked to the banning of Karotte and its consequent fallout had already been suggested since the email was discovered, and responses to DMs sent by Ezra to the people involved seemed to confirm this. After some discussion, it was agreed by admins and comfy members that Jane's conduct and possible involvement with maliciously reporting the server was deserving of a ban. Chase, who had by this time returned, attempted to negotiate and drip-feed information to Ezra, claiming to be uninvolved with the reporting and promising more information in return for Jane being unbanned.

Instead of unbanning Jane, Ezra, Cadence and Alexandra set up an investigation, wherein Alexandra pretended to have broken up with Cadence and was banned from Crycord in order to join the server Karotte, Jane, Chase and others were now on. After discovering that Chase had lied about being uninvolved, Alex invited the admins and some other comfy people to that server, letting the cat out of the bag and causing said server to be deleted by Nancy (but not before banning every Crycord member besides Retro), and yeah Nancy was also involved in this whole mess for reasons beyond my ken despite having a fucking restraining order against Chase also I don't even know who Bre or Ian are but they're also people I guess