The Pig Dog Scum ListWe have never kept it a secret that we have a private ban list that officers use to check new invites against to stop people we have kicked from sneaking back in. Unfortunately this happens quite frequently and so having the list has proved very beneficial in keeping out the trolls and ensuring that the guild remains a safe friendly place for you to enjoy yourselves.
The list is kept in the officer's private forum as it feels wrong to have it public. Those people have already been kicked from guild and there is no reason to publicly shame and embarrass them in front of their friends (
except Raynarog, fuck that guy π¬). We are a popular guild that has been active for over 6 years and we have several hundred active accounts each month. The ban list has 203 entries which means on average we have banned 33 people each year so around 2 a month which is quite good out of 600+ active players (0.33%). The overall number of people on the list is slightly more than 203 since I saved room by making 3 entries that group some people together: "People that idle/suicide through GSF/PvP matches", "Random trolls" and "Random guild bank thieves".
Every person on that list has done something to deserve being on there and they are not welcome in our guild. The list is simply a tool we use as part of our admin since Bioware ignore all suggestions to provide an in-game ban system for guilds. Myself and the officers have far better things to do with our time then deal with troublesome people but sadly as most of you have seen, some people just can't help themselves. The fact is that once someone is kicked we generally forget about them and get back to working on positive things.
Marco's BullshitThe reason I am writing about this is because several weeks ago
I had to kick a few officers. Most of them moved on, found a new guild and carried on with their lives however Marco (Accipiter Nisus) has refused to let it go. He has been harassing myself and several officers with his poorly written bi-polar messages. Personally I've just ignored him like I do with all trolls but some of the others have been wasting hours of their time trying to calm him down. The fact is that he is a grown man that acts like a little child who can't stop screaming for attention. He got himself kicked by his own actions and there is nobody to blame except himself and that is what really eats him up.
He was not only kicked for being a traitor; his appalling attitude to other guild members was also a large factor. He hijacked a thread to wish death on another officer stating "i hope that they die as far as possible from me for do not feel the smell". When we told him how unacceptable that was he then created a separate thread titled "A short story of Scum" where he wrote a long tirade about the same officer and their friend. His behavior had become increasingly erratic and we were already considering demoting him so when his role in the traitors plan was revealed it was an easy decision to be rid of him.
He tells people that I went out of my way to remove all trace of his raid team after he was kicked but the reality is that I sent them a group mail stating they could remain as a team with one person as the official liaison and Marco as their leader outside. They chose to go a different route at which point Marco asked me to remove all trace of the squad's history from our website:
I informed the team of Marco's request and let them know that I would give them time to take copies of their progress images before they were erased.
He originally claimed he had nothing to do with the traitors and that he innocently created the discord server where they plotted their mischief but then today he publicly admitted that he was involved as he proudly stated he considered it a rebellion. He clearly had ill intentions towards the guild which is further proven by the fact he was making copies of private officer documents to share before he was kicked. Keep in mind that Marco was an officer for most of a year until his kick and he had no problem with us having a ban list which he helped contribute towards.

After Marco publicly posted all the names, legacies and kick notes of over 200 people in several locations including places where their friends could read them he then became a massive hypocrite as he began threatening legal action against myself and the guild if all trace of his own deactivated user account was not removed from our website due to him believing it breached his rights in relation to the recent GDPR. User account names do not breach the regulation as they do not identify the actual person. If the user account included a combination of his full name, address, phone number or national insurance number etc which could be used to identify him in the real-world then he might have something but the user account called "Marco" and his non specific email address are not enough. He is highly paranoid and delusional if he thinks any of us are going to waste our time trying to track him down. He's not worth the time or the effort. At any rate, I have deleted his account's registration with our site to stop him harassing our officers who have asked him repeatedly to leave them out of his latest tantrum.

The fact is that publicly releasing the ban list, harassing myself, officers and guild members and threatening legal action are all just Marco's sad pathetic way of screaming for attention. He does not care about the people on the ban list or he would not of publicly shamed them all by sharing it. He does not really care about his website account being deleted. He just wants to try and stay relevant and receive any form of acknowledgement when the reality is we all wish he would just disappear in the wind like the bad fart he is.
Some people wonder why the top of the ban list states:
"This is a list of those that have been outcast from the guild for all time. If you should happen upon any of them with an alt then write their name below and /spit on them π"
It sounds harsh but it's because of people like Marco who have nothing better to do with their lives then waste as much time of as many people as they possibly can. It's also written to be a bit tongue in cheek as no officers really do that but in this case if you see Accipiter Nisus then do /spit on him and if he messages you in an attempt to draw you into his bullshit then just ignore him or you will end up wasting hours of your life listening to him moaning. His past and current actions prove that he deserves ZERO respect and I have no regrets about banning him.
It's a game. It's supposed to be fun. Myself and the officers who volunteer our free time to help run the guild want all of you to enjoy yourselves. 90% of what we do is fun and positive but as the leaders of such a large active guild, part of our duty is to shield our players from dickheads like Marco so we have to take things a bit more seriously than most people but we do so to ensure you don't have to.