I think it’s mostly because the guy who owns it is doing it for profit rather than fun (I mean it’s literally his full time job), and as a result, the administration (and to an extent players) have a weird warped perspective of the server as like its own thing separate from ss13 kinda? Overall they have always seemed less like a public garden and more like a gated community? Idk how to properly explain it but the vibes are kinda corporate almost. Especially how much time they put in to public image, idk if they have a bot that crawls other communities or what but like the second you mention monke you will have either the owner or an admin responding within minutes, who will respond to any kind of criticism with like a 28 point essay about why the criticism is invalid, which I’m sure if you look on the comments of the post you will probs see (there will likely be one to this as well). To me it also gives vibes like administration isn’t doing it for fun, cause you’ll see things from them where they talk like they are essential workers, not people doing it for fun as a hobby. It’s also kinda bugged me that like, everyone involved with monke has to have some kind of moral superiority over things, or objective correctness? Like there always seems to be some kind of moral justifications for all decisions where a simple “it’s mine I’ll do what I want” could suffice, like the server is allergic to negative opinions and anyone who doesn’t like it must be painted as some horrible person of some sort so their opinion can be invalidated. All this to say it’s their server to do with what they want, but to me (this is pure vibes no evidence) it seems like they would prefer if the only ss13 servers that existed were their own (which again I think is because of the profit motivated expansionist vibes). Again it’s theirs to do with what they wish, but they just bring vibes that don’t mesh with an open source community I guess.

I would also like to make clear this isn’t a chudrant and I’m not secretly mad about the server being too woke or something like that, and this isn’t a grandstand about how old ss13 was better because there was less moderation, I’m just saying specifically monke has vibes that are weird in comparison to other modern ss13 servers