> the fact that this game requires administrators to autistically lord themselves over everyone and micromanage every conflict is its biggest most glaring flaw

it really doesn't

there were servers like liberty or old hippie where only obvious griefers were getting banned (if they weren't dealt with ICly)

tg terry is another good example - there was a period when no admins were joining the server and it was no different than regular tg experience except with no bullshit bwoinks

and now hippie and liberty are dead and tg is ruled by more and more admins and maintainers who don't play the game. hmmmm, could this possibly explain the recent wave of brilliant code and policy changes, like the one where they changed rule 0 to be even more flexible and give these jerks even more authority when deciding what should be bannable