[quote=@NuttsnBolts]This is where all your problems lie. A GM should be doing what they can to stop the bashing of other player's work, and in turn they should not be so negative. If you want to stop clique warfare then you have to do what you can in not being a part of the problem. You wanna bash, you wanna bitch, you wanna exclude someone from an RP as a GM? Then you have to expect your RP to potentially die. No amount of threads or discussions will help if you want to display to your players that bitching about someone is ok while you're the GM. If you don't want someone to join, just tell them this RP is not for them — what they do after that is up to that individual, but don't flame the fire when it is not needed. [/quote]

Apologies if the intention of this thread got lost in my opening post, but I was trying to promote a discussion of Discord as a tool, not turn this into a thread lamenting my personal failures as a GM. 

If we could remain on topic moving forward, that would be appreciated.