[quote=@Lady Absinthia]
I am usually bent to keep to myself these days but this is getting a touch out of hand. So, I have a question: what do you believe the mods or admins could do to better give transparency to issues as well as bring the community together because it is desperately needed. Please note that this is what the staff could do, not what the members should do. That is another topic entirely. 

I am asking this of Ruby [i]alone[/i], [u]not other staff nor other members[/u], so I ask both respectfully to keep their personal thoughts or comments out of it as to not add fuel to an already overly zealous fire. Thank you.

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Transparency on what? Bans? The vast majority happen and no one bats an eye. And I'll talk for long periods of time (recently over an hour not even counting today) about bans and moderation. Come talk to us and we're generally pretty open. 

These things happen behind the scenes a lot.

We don't want things to descend into public conflict over those bans. It used to be a Guild blood sport. I've considered a place where we post bans in an anonymous fashion but how easy is it to guess who got banned for what? Then we're dealing with someone claiming harassment because we made their ban public. (It's happened.)

I was transparent about the PW thread getting deleted. When asked, on the status bar. 

Or claims of public humiliation. 

No. We won't as a general rule publicly discuss bans. But if you really want to know...ask. DMs and PMs are open.