that's not moderating, that's just being a jerk. apparently he was going mute-happy earlier too.
actually i just mute anyone who makes it clear they're trying to start a fight
like i've muted a dozen people just today before they came into direct conflict with anyone else and immediately unmuted them once i made it clear that i wasn't going to stand for them antagonizing some guy at length for having a high id or 'aimbotting' or killing them too much or something and most people get the picture pretty quickly
like the mutes last maybe 10 seconds- just long enough for me to say 'dont start a fight over this stupid nothing conflict, it's not worth it and nobody wants to see you make idiots of yourselves'- and then i unmute them. if they continue to attempt to fight i usually just mute them again and unmute them like 10 minutes later, and if they somehow continue to attempt to fight a 10 minute old fight then i just mute them and forget about it cause they aren't gonna contribute anything to any conversations, forget em
bim in particular has a forgetin taunt button
a
manually bound custom taunt buttonsomething that could
only possibly exist to start fights with other peoplelike in team fortress or whatever that would be ok because the taunts are not only a deliberate part of the game- which means everyone innately has access to them, effortlessly- but leave you wide open for a hilarious come-uppance should you then get shot while you're doing a little victory dance and the taunts are innately sort of goofy, so everyone still has fun when the heavy eats a sandwich over some dead guys corpse or the spy starts talkin about dinner food or whatever. meanwhile, bim has gone out of his way to prebake a function with the express purpose of exerting dominance over whoever he can kill in what is essentially a skill-less party game, which is already a big red flag in my head that he's obviously not going to be an asset to anyone's day
so the first time i noticed him doin this sort of thng, i warned him; he was deliberately slingin stuff at some guy he'd just killed with one of the aforementioned prebaked taunts (something like "Was that your best?" or some ridiculous cliche along those lines) and i told him off cause one that's a ridiculous cliche and two he's already won the fight, he doesn't have to dance around and rub the guy's face in it
so the second time he's using (what might have been the same taunt, considering they're all cliches and they've all mixed together in my head) the same tool like the next round, completely ignoring me, so i muted him
so he calls in, like,
flunkieslike 3 guys show up and are all "why did you mute bim hes such a nice guy" and i present my case that "he's literally automated being a stuffbird" and they're like "no, that doesnt count" and let them run their course and like 2 of them eventually leave and the last one is green arrow, who admittedly i probably should unmute. like i think i muted him for briefly spamming the server and then i never saw him try to talk again so i assumed he just had nothing else to say beyond "bim has done nothing wrong" and we didnt really come in contact past that
anyway so later i unmute bim and say something along the lines of "bim stop bein a stuff, i'm not gonna tolerate you making a random party game any more infuriating to the playerbase then it is innately" and like a split second later he kills some guy and says "Was that your best?" and now he's just permamuted
like what more could i
possibly say here? 'you know what bim i'm sorry it was wrong of me to give you upwards of 5 chances to not act like a stuffbird. here, let me unmute you so you can continue to piss off more people with a low-tech chatbot'
