I don't want to be the devil's advocate here, but I think that if you know me at all, and have
Swollow's tag mod, then "The Devil's Advocate" might be a good tag for me.
I don't think Lord Tony is troll, nor do I think he's some evil master-mind playing all of us for attention or for some weird sense of superiority--as long as we're considering "the entire Harvest clan as a huge bait and switch plan," we should also explore the scenario that perhaps Lord Tony is being 100% genuine in his posts, and believes that his clan is up there in terms of quality with clans like USSR and MotE.
Harvest is up there with MoTE and USSR.
Even then, if we were to fully commit into such a belief, we wouldn't
really have much to criticise Tony for, he would just be another part of this community, perhaps even a victimized member of this community.
Yet, if we really are being 100% genuine with this hypothetical situation, there would still be some things to criticise Tony for--perhaps the blacklist, the way he dismisses such criticism, or even something small like the people Tony argues with.
But isn't all of that stuff we're criticising Lord Tony for, in this hypothetical situation, the stuff perhaps mentioned in the OP of a certain drama, completely and easily changable? And hasn't Lord Tony proven himself capable of changing, even slightly, with things like the executive order, and the deal he tried to make with me to get Team[Qi] off of the harvest list?
Wouldn't doing something, in this hypothetical situation, like, perhaps, maybe, removing the blacklist prove that Lord Tony could accept criticism, giving people like Blockchip nothing to argue about, and leaving the only people left disliking Tony the hardcore anti-Tonys?
And wouldn't it be cool to have a clan like USSR and MotE activly making builds and servers, and not having to fear them becoming some cliquey tyranical stuffshow?
