While I can understand being hurt that a game takes a long time to make and that they announced the game too early, causing lot of delays to be visible, spreading false rumors about bans of people giving criticism is just evil, people who get banned there are breaking the rules repeatidly (WW2 germany related stuff, spam, harassment) and the person (mod or dev) throwing the banhammer must give the reason to everyone as to be transparent and not shadowban...
I understand that you're the mod in Arvus Games's discord server, however the accusations aren't entirely false. The server has its flaws, as any server has. I don't mean to throw shade at Kal at all, he's been a nice dude towards me in general.
However, I've been shadowbanned before by "Matinee", the main artist for Arvus's upcoming game (The one with the elf, can't remember what it was called) due to a dispute over the fact that Matinee became overly obsessed/enraged with the entire "bowsette" fad at the time. I said it was stupid to be so obsessed over, or something in that regard and got banned got told I know nothing about the subject.
I made a comment(not rulebreaking or anything) on the Arvus server about it (Which of course I should have just kept to DM), but immediately got banned by him over there too. I personally had to try and contact Kaliyo to hope and get back in. Had a small DM conversation with "Matinee", and we had a "nice" conversation, I got called an autist and got blocked. I mean of course I wasn't nice to him either considering he just banned me twice and acted completely ridiculous, but still you'd expect some professionalism from a moderator in that group.
I mentioned Matinee calling me an autist and blocking me to one of the mods, which asked me to not mention it to Kal, which I thus did not do.
Sure, this was a couple of years ago.. but I've seen people get banned fairy recently, simply for having the name "naziboi99" or something along those lines. Kal
DID say that the user also have an offensive profile picture, which was in fact not the case, and he asked me to not continue pressing about it because he wasn't in the mood/was tired. I did have proof that the image wasn't offensive at all too, as I looked found his profile through the server.
The user himself had not said ANYTHING in the server beforehand, it was a lurker.
Honestly I'd expect to at least ask for a name change or force one since the user hasn't shown any negative behavior before and you know
paid to support the group.
I know Kal is from Germany so sure, nazi stuff can hit a bit harder there, but I never agreed that that would excuse the ban.
There was also the weird banning of I-AM-YOUR-FATHER, which got banned for posting too many NSFW images in the NSFW image channel. Which I'd understand if the warning was consistent, except iirc one time he got told it was fine, the other time it was not. I know that user wasn't the easiest one to have in the server, he had trouble reading the room amongst other things at times, but I didn't see anything that'd warrant a ban. Including the time he posted a video which turned out to be fairly gory, claiming he hadn't seen till the end so he couldn't have known. Which afaik was a first time mistake, and honestly I'd expect some leniency/benefit of the doubt to someone who had supported the game for a looooooooong time.
All in all,
although I personally left the discord server and stopped supporting the group, partly due to these issues, I don't have an issue with them at all.
But when I see a moderator of theirs calling someone evil and a liar(although arguably the guy you were talking to isn't being a top tier human being either), I feel the need to step in.
What he said isn't entirely based on lies, and I think it's important to understand and grow from even the negative feedback you're getting than simply deflecting it.
