Why I'm resigning from MFGG Discord

[rollerC]

I'll admit that, yes, a lot of the time, the Discord gave me the impression that MFGG was a really disorganized community. It's something I sort of kept to myself, but I don't have any problem airing my laundry now, so I'll openly admit I felt that the community was toxic. There was very little respect from members to staff and occasionally vice versa, and mini-modding/piling on to people for saying x thing happened way, way too often. I'd never really been in a server where there were members who held such disdain for each other that the staff knew of, but didn't choose to address. I was also definitely part of that problem of not addressing it, but half of the reason for that is because I felt like I was walking on eggshells for all the reasons that I resigned. I was hoping becoming a moderator would help me get introduced to the community more, but instead, it made me see that it was not a community I wanted to get involved in. But it was too late to go back. MFGG forums is well-managed and so are the other areas of MFGG, but there are some pretty glaring problems with the Discord that would put me in a bad position with staff if I said anything about it. I'm a little disappointed that the Discord thread in Suggestions hasn't got more traction, because I think we need to have more of a meta discussion between members specifically about how to handle the Discord and the culture of it.

That's not a conversation I'm willing to get involved in for a while, however. I hope my resignation will encourage some (reasonable) talk about this though. I can see now that I'm not the only one to have felt burned from the Discord.

I'm on the MarioBoards, Minus World, and the Bell Tree Forums as rollerC if you wanna check me out.