July Bannings

The July Bannings were a pivotal moment in GS history, occurring on the 1st of July, 2020. The July Bannings occured following weeks of instability and tension following The Yaoi Wars, which resulted in a severe loss in reputation for Conquerus, Koe, and Arion to a lesser extent.

Background
Conq, Koe and Arion were members with a great deal of controversy surrounding them. Conq and Koe were controversial for their edgy humour and use of the n-word, while Arion was controversial for his general toxicity and unsolicited sexual remarks every 30 minutes.

Leadup
Arion had actually left the server some time prior, but decided to return eventually. A short time after he returned, Conq's lobbying finally annoyed Chegg enough for her to consider banning Arion. By this point, Chegg and even Quartzes were sick of Arion, and wanted him gone due to his arrogance and absolute lack of care for rules or decency. Arion caimed that "chegg harbours fascists and homophobes", which further entrenched support for his ban, causing Chegg to finally make a public poll on whether Arion should be banned.

There was a great deal of debate regarding the bans and the nature of them, and the overall argument can be divided into two subcategories: the argument within #eldermod, and the argument in #general.

#elder mod:
Quartz and Chegg were debating banning Arion when Pat argued that Conq should just block Arion and ignore him. Psi also joined the chat and argued that the root of the problem was Conq and his supposed homophobia, while indirectly claiming that the only reason why Chegg and other members wanted Arion to be banned was because he was mean to "the phobes" (referring to Koe and Conq), with the two of them being close friends with the admin team. Quartz accused Anal of misconstruing their reasoning behind banning Arion, stating that he was a dick to pretty much everybody. Quartz then proposed a separate pole to ban Conq and Koe if necessary. Aortic Aneurysm had then got angry and stated:

"Arion's entire point here is that we're unprincipled twats willing to talk about how we care about LGBT people without ever actually standing up for them, the closest thing we're willing to do being that we don't actually punish LGBT people while we sweep what phobes do to them under the rug. It's the driving force behind all of his shitposting and flaming. Literally, that's it. His entire purpose here is to drive home the idea that we're sitting on our hands, doing nothing to actually make this a better place for people.

And to be honest, I think that's why Arion gets under everyone's skin so much."

Aortic Anuerysm's claim that Arion's flaming was intended to bring wider attention to supposed homophobia as opposed to him simply wanting to annoy people was unpopular with the other moderators. Quartz told Anal that he simply expects to not have himself and other members treated like dumpsters by Arion. Pat called Koe and Conq pieces of shit and said that Arion was only toxic to them and people who defend them, while admitting that while the two contribute to the RP, Arion doesn't do anything positive. Quartz eventually changed his stance and decided that Arion had the moral high ground over the two. At some point Conq joined the chat, but since he was banned shortly afterwards, all of his messages have been deleted. It is hard to say what he was arguing, but judging from the counter-arguments Quartz posted, it appears that Conq argued that Arion was disrupting the peace of the server. Pat then accused Conq of trying to bait Arion into posting yaoi.

Eventually, the elder mods realised that Delta had left the server. Conq then said something that made Psi angry enough to make him snap and suddenly ban Conq and Koe from the server, before leaving GS himself. Shortly afterwards, Arion left the server. For whatever reason, Vya also stated that he was gonna leave GS, although he quickly backtracked. The admins and elder mods debated bringing back Conq and Koe, before it was decided that they would be exiled for an undetermined amount of time.

#general:
The drama in #general began when Arion joined the server and posted something that pissed Quartz off. Arion claimed homophobia, before Chegg joined in and chastised Arion. Once Chegg posted the poll, Psi stated that the poll was pointless because it was obvious what the result would be Arion being banned. Pat then stated that homophobes should be banned from voting. Delta voted to abstain, and stated that while Conq was homophobic he was at least civil unlike Arion, which he angrily denied. Psi then stated that Conq, Koe and Quartz all deserved to be banned for "bullying him out of public channels".

Delta argued that if Arion was to be banned for toxicity, then Conq and Koe should be too. Delta began posting screenshots of Conq posting the n-word and other content, and Koe being too edgy. He then stated that if Koe and Conq were not banned alongside Arion, then he would leave GS himself. Eventually Delta did leave, and Koe and Conq were banned shortly afterwards. Arion also left the server, however he would return later on and would not be banned until the Second Postman Pat Incident over one and a half months later.

Unbans and Koe's 2nd ban
Several days later, Conq and Koe were unbanned from the server. However, Koe stated outside of the server that he would act as nice as possible to Psi and Pat to annoy them while not breaking the rules. After being informed by Chegg, Psi decided to ban Koe again less than an hour after he was unbanned. This resulted in Koe embracing some of his old habits to get back at the server. This continued back and forth for a while until the Conq Presidential Promise.