The Rejected Realms Dropped out of The Liberty Gala After Raiders were Kicked Out
The Rejected Realms Stood Up for its Raider Citizenry
Written by Bronyleader
Started by members of the regions of 10000 Islands, Founderless, The Order of the Grey Wardens, and Lily, The Liberty Gala was intended to help raise awareness for the Defender ideology and overall have a good time. However, despite this goal, the event was not exempt from a large amount of controversy, ultimately leading to the dropping out of The Rejected Realms. (TRR)
The event first received attention after Jakker, General of The Black Hawks and a NationStates Forum Moderator, posted on the event's invitation thread that he had been banned from the event’s Discord server, despite his interest in the event. Instead of apologizing and resolving the situation, HumanSanity replied to by saying "I felt my language was pretty clear But [Sic] banning you was fun, so no regrets" This then led to a long debate about whether or not the actions of HumanSanity and the rest of The Liberty Gala staff were right or not.
Despite all the arguments and jabs towards the event and the people hosting it, things did not really go any further than that. That is, until it was officially announced that The Rejected Realms was dropping out of the event as a whole. At the time of writing, the only statement given was from Guy, Commander of The Rejected Realms Army, saying “[...] On the other hand, I think that invaders are perfectly fine as people. Certainly there is no problem with invaders as a class that means they cannot participate in a community event - and do it in a way in which everyone has fun. Like most defenders, I get on really well with invaders. So I also think that the decision to exclude them from this event is unfortunate.”
This incident has also prompted one of the NationStates Forum Moderators to start a discussion on IC/OOC divide in the Gameplay sub-forum to discuss whether or not changes are needed, as the thread for the Liberty Gala was a mix of In-Character discussion and Out-of-Character insults and thoughts that were hard to distinguish from each other.
According to RaiderCon participants, this entire incident is a stark contrast to that event, which raises awareness and gives some insight into the world of raiding, and allows everyone, regardless of ideology, to join and does not enforce a strict raider-only mentality.
It is very likely that future relations between The Rejected Realms and the organizers of The Liberty Gala are going to be soured, as there are a lot of people within the region who are raiders that could see this event as discriminatory for not allowing a large group of people to join simply because of their in-game ideology. On the other side of the coin, the organizers likely are not going to be very happy with TRR because of the fact that they chose to pull out of the event to stand up for their raiders, completely going against the ideology that the entire event was trying to promote in the first place.
It is unclear whether or not The Liberty Gala will return again anytime in the future, with HumanSanity replying to someone asking about the future of the event with “Future me will get back to you once future all of us have future decided [Sic] if we future want [Sic] to do this again.”
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