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closed by OPs request

It seems that my account was blocked by accident because a friend of mine reported it as a "scammer" so right know my account do not exits it seems like 
Also, be careful with trying to get help from "Steam support" using Discord, turns out they are pretty much scammers, they wanted me to create an account on a website to buy bitcoins, luckily for me, I block everything related to my card just in case 
 
So yeah, if you see anything suspicious with my account, that is not me right now, I will try to recover as soon as possible 

Division
Discord In-Game Name
Flareon Identity
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198152453070 Position
Moderator Time Active on Servers
since 2014 Information
Applying for discord mod, since i’ve been more active on there than on tf2. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
p.s virr is smelly
I have read the staff submission rules and meet the requirements for the division I'm applying for.
Yes

Been a while since I last checked in here, but I am sad to see that the tf2 server is empty all the time, spent most of my teen years meeting new friends, but i am happy to see many new faces that have joined xG, just happy to finally be back.

As no more responses have been posted in a little bit, i think its reasonable to close this thread.
While the reddit thread can't be proven to be posted by him, @Brady1780 has repeatedly broken rules regarding disrespect, baiting arguments, trolling and bigotry. He will lose his membership BUT will not be banned from the community, but instead held on extremely thin ice and will be permanently banned if any other rules are to be broken.
xG is a place where we respect each others self- and gender identity, no matter your personal beliefs. You are all valid ❤️
~closed

Member's Name
Brady1780 Identity
@Brady1780 on forums, Brady1780#5918 on discord, https://steamcommunity.com/id/Brady1780, STEAM_0:0:102474235 on steam Information Brady has repeatedly been problematic within the community. Below, I will attach some screenshots of his blatant bigotry.
  
  
While the following are not as recent, they show that Brady has been a problematic member of the community for a very long time:

Also, his infractions on Discord, via MEE6:

Remember: This is *only* the infractions from after he was kicked from the server for his statements above. There were countless infractions before this.
One more thing: this was posted to a subreddit I created a while back as an unfunny joke. (Meaning I made the subreddit as an unfunny joke)

I obviously do not have concrete proof that the poster was Brady, but he is the only one that I would expect to act in this manner. Take this part with a grain of salt, as it cannot be proved, but I figured it was worth including.
Someone that expresses such blatantly bigoted and transphobic beliefs should absolutely not be allowed in this community. The first 3 of the above messages were part of an attack on me for identifying as non-binary. This kind of behaviour can not be tolerated.
I am not only calling for a removal of his status as member, but a permanent ban from the community. Brady has been consistently problematic during his time as a member of Xenogamers, and he should not have been kept in the community for this long.

Division
Team Fortress 2 In-Game Name
Tekk/Tekage/various ket Identity
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Tekage11037/ Position
Other Time Active on Servers
Since 2013 Information
As you may be aware, there is a plague in Team Fortress 2 xG. Staff are scared to take action, there is confusion as to where the game is going and as it stands, the TF2 Division (until recent attempts including @BonfireCentipede and I to repopulate) is staggering; struggling to stay afloat.   The system is broken. Staff are confused and little is being done to help keep TF2 alive. We are going to be in a continuous cycle of no updates, provocation and the division will slowly die.   We cannot allow this to continue. We need an uprising and to bring back the TF2 that we loved. Therefore, here, I'm going to reapply for my position of Division Leader for TF2. Together, we can restore our love for TF2; we can keep the game fresh and we can begin a new era of xG. The Grand Turnabout.   @Tatost told me to compose a triumphant theme song, so instead, I wrote a little orchestral TF2/CSGO medley. Hope you enjoy 🙂  
@virr @Aegean @hongkongatron @DiaperHyperWolf
I have read the staff submission rules and meet the requirements for the division I'm applying for.
Yes

Member's Name
Guest Information
 
@Nomulous @virr @Aegean @Rhododendron
Please terminate all the current staff and please give server mod to @Spaghetti and people who actually play on there😔
 
 

Hopefully it can get back to where it was. 

Division
Discord In-Game Name
TBOHB#0002 Identity
STEAM_1:1:84208687 Position
Moderator Time Active on Servers
a year and a half Information
I've been getting more active lately and want to help around the server as much as I can. I check discord every 5 minutes or so, so I can stay on top of things pretty fast.
 
 
I also want that candle lit dinner,
I have read the staff submission rules and meet the requirements for the division I'm applying for.
Yes

Division
Team Fortress 2 In-Game Name
cookie_ Identity
[U:1:358569303] Ban Type
Server Ban Information
i had my aa not doing anything just jumping around and made sure that it wasnt on when i was in combat

Division
Team Fortress 2 In-Game Name
BigDickCowboy OwO<3 Identity
STEAM_0:0:55604505 Ban Type
Not Listed Information
Y'all know what I did, I abused power and fucked up real bad, so ill keep it short and sweet. Y'all know I love xG and ive been around for many years. I'm just trying to come hang with my friends again and stay with the community

Well the time has come and I think it's finally safe to say that a group full of antagonistic hypocritical faggots might not be the one for me. Now there will be memes. And a lot of these people making memes and laughing at me are going to have a hard time washing the taste of my dick out of my mouth because they're lowlife bitch boys who don't know any better. And honestly I look forward to that. Everyone I run into in any TF2 game with the xG tag is having their voice muted because honestly being cool with the servers isn't worth dealing with a bunch of cunts projecting their own flaws on other people. And if I get BANNED from the servers, I'm going to hold that up as a motherfucking trophy for as long as I play TF2. So there's no way for you to win this. Go fuck yourselves.

Xeno Gamers
BANS.XENOGAMERS.COM This isn't just about him saying "dead division" everyday. We've said this multiple times already and if it were for just that, there would be more so many more people being banned and stripped of membership.
84 comms bans. EIGHTY FOUR over the past few years. I'm aware of ban decay, furthermore I'm aware that a lot of these were meme bans or by himself. But that's at least 30 gag/mutes, which is ridiculous.
He's rude, disrespectful and doesn't care for the community nor its members. That is made evident no matter where you go, particularly in recent events, how he took the ban protest. Someone like this shouldn't be allowed to be here, let alone be a member.
+1 for removal of membership and ban

Fuck no 🤡🤡🤡
whoever +1 is a straight up goof
 
-1

😴

As of recent, as you all know, the TF2 Divison has been struggling a lot recently. It is as a result of multiple reasons, one being a lack of motivation from us which has resulted in the game feeling stale, even on xG. However, Seg's demotion has been a massive wake-up call to Caleb and I who are now going to be working harder than ever before in order to return TF2 to its former glory.
We have been discussing things recently and have decided that we are going to do a rework of the rules, coming up with ideas for plugins to keep the game fresh and hope to make our servers better than ever before. We will try to keep you all updated as much as possible as a result of there being previous complaints about lack of communication between the TF2 Higherups and the Community.
If anyone has any suggestions whatsoever, please let us know here.
Please don't go anywhere; there's much more to come and lots of fun to be had! Let's bring TF2 back.
Edit of 7/18: Thank you to everyone for your feedback and encouragement. You've been a lot of help. Any further suggestions you might have, redirect to here.

After talking to various people, family and friends, I have decided that I am actually going to stay as a Division Manager. This community means far too much to me and I know I can work all of this out with the right help, I just have to get back on track again. Truth be told, I actually started declining really bad all the way back in early October when I stopped going to counseling and I haven't had an appointment since. Instead of stepping down, I am going to schedule my counseling again, visit the doctors and perhaps a nutritionist. If I get put on anti-depressants I may have to take a break for a few weeks so I can get used to them but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. Thank you for all of the support guys, I genuinely love you all so much
 

What is below this paragraph states how I personally feel about the state of the servers and the TF2 division as a whole right now.  No other person had any part in this, so if anyone is to be questioned then that person is me. I don’t mean this thread to attack anyone, but its important it gets out there one way or another.  I may be being completely irrational with this post, but this is several years worth of frustrations summed up into a single thread, so I apologize in advance.
 
If you are new here, I'm a previous Division Leader, I've been staff several times, and am currently an admin of the Team Fortress 2 servers.
 
Take this thread as you will.
 
Drama
 
Between several servers, different discords, groups, there has been on common theme between all of them.  That theme, is the absolute inability of people to get along with other people that have opposing views, creating drama.  There are times that a simple discussion turns into an absolute shitfest for no reason at all, and fuel must be added to the fire no matter what in order to fit each person's own narrative.  There are also times when people are constantly mocked on the servers for one reason or another, and when they ask the person who is doing it to the stop the response is usually “get over it” or “just local mute them”.  How is that a solution we should be enforcing at all? If people are mocking someone just to annoy them, or get a reaction, or whatever other reason, it is harassment, and should be handled as such.  When things are agreed upon and finished, it doesn’t come lightly, it comes when one person steps in and says let's get this done with, almost as if the two opposing parties are unable to even communicate without being at each others throats, let alone negotiate, unless a third party steps in.  It’s time to brighten up and get along with each other.

 
You may be asking, “why is this a problem?” Or you may be rolling your eyes at this point, well I'm directing this at everyone.  With the rate of how things are going, these servers we love to play on could very well be dead sooner than any of us think if something doesn’t change.  If that doesn’t concern you can you really call yourself a community member? It's all of our jobs to not only maintain the servers, and not only to play on the servers, but the most important job of all of us, is to have fun playing on the servers, not only for ourselves but for others.  We all represent xG, even if you aren’t a part of the clan, when you are playing on the servers, talking on the forums, or in the discord, you are representing xG and who we are as a clan.  Do we really want drama to be the thing that defines us when people look at the clan? Do we really want people to walk away because of it? I know I don't, and I sure hope you don’t either.  It doesn’t matter if “it's just online”, everyone here is a real person, with feelings of their own, we aren't built the same, and we weren't built to handle emotions the same as the next person.  If someone has a problem with how you act towards them, or how you treat them, then it's time to lighten up and be considerate for other people's feelings. As is such with the Castroy situation, he is repeatedly mocked with a phrase that is very well known to hurt him, but it is continued anyways because those doing it like seeing the reaction, or seeing that it annoys him.
This can be solved with one word.
Respect.

 
Another issue I'd like to bring up, is how things are handled in the division.  On several occasions I've seen people say “well not many people are complaining about it so it's not that big of a problem”.  I firmly believe that having that kind of mindset will drag the division down, we should not be waiting for people to complain to get things fixed, or removed, or added, etc.  Our priority should be looking at the issue that is at hand, even if it was mentioned by a single person, and seeing what we can do about it. Fix the issue before it becomes a problem, don't wait until the boat has already sank. On the surf server, there is a well known issue with the checkpoint saver plugin, where it resets your saved position with no warning.  I tried several times as a DL to get it fixed to no avail. That being said, I saw someone say that their checkpoint got reset, I didn’t see their name but a few times beforehand but I could see they were genuinely disappointed.  The only solution that was offered was to “jiggle your mouse around a bit and test before you walk away”, which is all fine and dandy, except for the fact that simply, they shouldn't HAVE to. We do things to make the experience more enjoyable for all players, if a new player joined and saw that their progress was reset for no reason they'd probably think otherwise and not feel too good about the server at that point.  After I saw that, I took it upon myself to finally sit down and fix the plugin once and for all, I didn't do it for myself, or for the higher ups, I did it for HIM, the one who brought it up. That's where the issue of “waiting until it becomes a problem” comes into play. Nobody else thought it was a problem, even the higherup I sent it to( @SegFault ) so he could add it to the server, but when it's affecting our players, at that point it IS A PROBLEM, whether it is widespread or not.  I believe this can be attributed to one word:
 
Motivation.
 
Something I feel several of our higher ups are lacking, or at least a good portion of the time, especially when it comes to working on the servers.  As a DL your job is the same as everyone else, but you have the responsibility to actually add to the servers and fix what's wrong. I'm not saying @mrnutty12 and @SegFault don’t do anything, but it feels like when they can't figure something out they just give up and wait until someone else( @Lithium ) figures it out.  In my eyes this shows a complete and utter lack of motivation, and unwillingness to work. You don't have to be working on the servers at all times, but if you are unwilling to dedicate time to it then why are you in such a position? An example of this is with @mrnutty12. I won’t lie and say I don't get frustrated with you when it comes to server work, because I do.  And I won't lie and say I'm always nice when I bring it up to you, because I'm not. But when you threaten to step down everytime I DO bring it up to you what does that say? It shows me personally you're unwilling to take criticism for your actions. You have told me yourself that people think you're lazy, and you think you're useless, but you don't try to change. How can you sit there and guilt yourself when there's no attempt being made. I don’t do it to try and hurt you, or push you away, I tell you how it is because it should be a red flag that clearly something is wrong, and that it should change. Another example: Population events quickly went from several times a week to sometimes not even happening once a week, whether that be from lack of players, or those who set them up just not wanting to do them.  This issue is not only directed at the higher ups, it could be directed at the division as a whole. To me it feels like many people just don't care what happens anymore, as long as x server has players on then they’re happy, those servers normally being surf or tgh. It's almost as if some people would rather see the server they like completely filled and the other server completely dead, that doesn't sound like a healthy community or playerbase if you ask me.
 
Management
 
Management wise, I don't think anyone could ask for a better staff team, but like all teams, we have our faults.
Disagreements on rule matter
Many times I have seen staff enforce a rule in wildly different ways than the next staff, which if it gets the job done is fine, but not when its creating a false idea of what they can and can not do.  There have also been times that I've seen rules enforced that I've never even seen or heard of. Obviously we will never all enforce things exactly the same, but there should be more efforts to try. This comes down to one thing, consistency.
Arguing in the servers, or discord
Disagreeing with each other is a given, it's not that big of a deal, but how it is handled is absolutely a problem.  A good example of this would be of what I saw last night. I won't give any names in order to provide anonymity but basically, there were two sides.  One side said he or she did this on the server and then put the blame on someone else because of x reason, and the other side disagreed and said the person that was blamed was the one who actually stated the issue on the server.  Keep in mind, there were witnesses on both sides that had different stories, and there was no solid evidence of either stories. Both sides were at each others neck for over half an hour, over something that couldn’t lead anywhere, and then it was attributed to them “trolling” or being “passive aggressive”.  These weren't just people that had just joined the server either, these were including staff members, higher ups as well. Quite frankly it's sad to see it happening.
Rules
It's no secret many people think we are too strict on rules.  While I think rules are important to have, at a certain point it needs to come down to staff discretion.  In order to do that though we'd need something I mentioned earlier, consistency.  As it is right now, I think all of our rules are fair, and they make sense, BUT the matter is, is that we have too many.  I understand the want for rules to be specific, and I also understand the rules to be generalize, it should be somewhere in between.  Have some trust in our staff and give the players some freedom. We can still enforce the rules, but we don't need to have a 2 page long list of rules, either.



 
Conclusion
I won’t sit here and put the blame for what's happening on one person, because what's happening is all of our faults, and that means the only way things will change is if everyone works together.  We are all told that the servers losing players can be attributed to “the game dying”, that’s not a good reason. If anything, that tells me we need to push harder than before to get our servers back to where they should be. There are rumors that are thrown around on the daily of “they said this” or “they did that”, and there are constant disagreements within our own staff team, and times when staff are at each other's throats while on the servers. There are times when the entire server is riled up because of situations like this. How many people have to leave before something changes? I didn't plan on coming back so soon originally even considering the irl information I learned, but I also didn’t plan on never coming back. I came back because I saw what was happening, and I care for this clan more than damn near anything, and I'm not willing to let this continue without at least trying to get it fixed, it's time for people to take off this mask as if everything is fine in the community and buckle up and get this figured out.  If you disagree with me, then feel free, if you agree with me then feel free; but no matter who you are, it's time for things to change around here. We are supposed to be a community, a community traditionally is a group of people who share common interests, and goals. What kind of community are we when we aren’t acting like one.
 





Edit: How the bulletpoints are SUPPOSED to look..

Also I would like to say 2 things:
1: Please READ the whole thing before voting. I tried to make a fair analysis on why people dislike the map, so even if you do like the map, maybe you can at least listen to my reasoning and understand my points.
2: Please do NOT vote no just because you dislike me. You can dislike me, that's fine, whatever, I don't care. But don't be so childish and petty and vote no purely because you dislike me. 
If you truthfully enjoy this map, then fine, that's great. But don't impulsively choose no because my name is plastered on this thing or you think this map is funny to meme on.

Ok...
First and foremost, the answer is yes.
The only reason this map has stayed is due to the following things.
A lot of people in xG are sniper mains, this is mostly because most video games maps aren't designed with a headhunting Australian assassin killing people. If any of you have played Goldenrod on Pokemon trade, you know what I mean. Because of this, some people love these maps. Despite the fact that they make people want to gamer shot themselves. A lot of people have a philosophy of, "The more maps the better, if people vote to play on it, they can." While if everybody took voting extremely seriously, I'd agree, unfortunately many people nominate and vote for it as a joke. Not only that, but unaware new players will see delfino, and want to play on it. Moving into the bad points:
Unlike maps like bunker, it's not even a "so bad it's good" kinda deal, it's just bad and not fun. Decreases server population. With spawn protection in it's current state (protection isn't visible), it's annoying to fight people. Lastly, my best point, I don't like it. I'm honestly confused as to how people could say no. Vote yes, please and thank you.

Edit: how do i delete a post?

-1
No benefit whatsoever to have you in the clan other than adding more furries

Just gonna keep this short and sweet.  Thank you all for the memories that we shared, we had a hell of a ride.  Wish you all the best ❤️

Hey everyone!
@Aegean and I are hosting a charity raffle for a chronic illness called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E); a life changing disability that turns simple everyday tasks into a marathon. M.E leaves a person constantly fatigued and in devastating pain. Some days, you'll be lying in bed all day, barely able to move, limbs feeling like they're twisting in ways they shouldn't. On a good day, you can walk to the kitchen and back, but that will be all you can do for the day. Unfortunately, my girlfriend suffers with this illness quite severely and is wheelchair bound, can barely attend social events and struggles to make her way to school. There is currently no cure.
Despite all of this, she always has the brightest smile on her face and always stays positive, no matter how difficult coping with this horrible illness can be. She has a passive passion for art and is a fantastic musician that will bring tears to the eyes of even the manliest.
As a bunch of people who donated do not wish to take a part in the raffle, we will donate the raffle prize amounts to the charity as well, and invest in more giveaways in xG throughout 2019!
*Edited by Aegean*
The charity in question is called the M.E Association, which aids people suffering with this chronic illness by providing support, raising awareness and researching into one day finding a cure. 
ME Association
WWW.MEASSOCIATION.ORG.UK If you would like to donate, please click on the link above and donate. After donating please message me with a screenshot or post the receipt in this thread so we can figure out the total amount of money raised!
Thank you everyone!