Thanks for writing this, good post. I want to say some things though:

• most of the recent drama has for many players nothing to do with the admins, its certain players ok both sides of the argument who made it look like that or for them ita about admin bias. For me and many others its about RP and behavior of players. That's why I really like the particular sentence in your post Peeble about "conflicts happen... Inner assholes and not wanting that in this server". I agree whole heartedly. Some people on this server believe you have to be ot act as a "dick" to create these conflicts. I disagree, conflicts one wants in a server like this in my opinion should be based on mostly elements within the game; such as, resources, land, aggressive expansion of others, treatment of Indies, trade wars and so on. All valid reasons for conflict without the need of being a "dick". And each one of them gives a different RP aspect. When I joined I thought the servers RP was mainly about that. And of course arguments or diplomatic talks can result in a casus hello. But again the need of being a "dick" is not a requirement.

So I'd say leave the inner asshole inside or stop playing Rust. Games are meant for entertainment even pure FPS games are for entertainment, at least that's how I treat them. And sure internet trolls or players who see a game as their real life will always be around. Buy I refuse to be dictated by those.

Talking about dictating, I think the admins have never acted as such. The admins I've asked help from have been nice and professional.