Staff Complaint

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Space Station 14 username: pebbletaro

Discord username: pebbletaro

Date of incident: n/a just discord interactions

Staff involved: the lemon
gaming420

Staff conduct broken: very hostile, and admin abuse

Where the incident occurred: discord

Brief description of what happened: very hostile towards me solely because of me talking about complaints/issues from the game in the discord, along with admin abuse banning for a non existent “rule 0” that he called “strawmanning”

i wouldnt be surprised if he was the one who banned me from the game aswell

Detailed explanation of everything that occurred

all of my discord logs: moth [GGG] logs - Google Docs

conversations between us (along with said other hostiles): conversationsions - Google Docs

frankly a lot of people were overtly hostile over it, i wasnt even aware of the github until it got linked and i did make a report with all the new bugs, including the tomato (small_monke_doing_science), and unrobust pussy bitch (madelynsts) though this complaint isnt about them as they didnt actually do anything and i dont really care about people being mad unless they start abusing power

Additional information

it is highly likely that my ban done by an unknown is also lemon or someone else who got mad Pebbletaro - Game Ban Appeal

Would you like this complaint to be public:

public bro everyone gets to see it

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I’ll be taking this.

To answer some of your questions/assumptions before I review the logs:
In reference to your game ban, “GoobStation” is our head maintainer Durk (gaming420)
Rule 0 is No Staff Disrespect, and strawmanning is when someone distorts, exaggerates, or fabricates an opponent’s argument to make it much easier to attack.

Due to how discord auto numbers lists rule 0 was auto-mislabed as rule 1. So we have two rule 1s in the discord but the first rule 1 is actually rule 0.

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Named admins have been given access to view the complaint

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if this is how youre gonna act the servers gonna die just like ss13, just a new PJB/MSO

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there was no strawmanning, i was responding directly to how he was acting when given any criticism or complaints, that he just resorts to belittling and insults for no good reason

it is entirely fair to call someone who does that sensitive, toxic, fragile, etc

and obviously he is still continuing that trend

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and, sure, my criticism and complaints may have been blunt, or harsh (frankly only my complaints from the mass pr merge were), but that is how i am, it is not personal insults or targetting, its matter of fact when multiple changes have a serious negative effect

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Your complaint has been denied.

After reviewing the logs provided, I have determined the ban placed on you was valid.
Goobstation is a down stream fork of another codebase: Wizard’s Den. Being a down stream fork of a more popular repository, we have significantly fewer experienced and active contributors (programmers) than the repository we are downstream of. Furthermore, as a down stream fork we must regularly “upstream” our repository. An “upstream” is implementing the all changes that the upstream repository (wizden) has implemented since the last “upstream”.
Since Wizard’s Den is developed completely independently of Goobstation their code is created with no regard to any changes or differences in the Goobstation repository.
Both repositories are free and open source which means that nearly all changes, additions, fixes, and features are developed, tested, and implemented by volunteer contributors (including upstreaming the codebase).
Due to these reasons, when an “upstream” does occur, it requires many hours of volunteer labor implementing code that more often than not is incompatible with the goobstation repository. Testing this code is done where possible but the sheer volume of changes and the nature of a sandbox game means that many bugs do slip through.

This is all to say a degraded and buggy experience immediately after an upstream is the expected norm and complaining about these bugs in the general chat of our discord is both unhelpful and annoying to our maintainers and contributors who both worked hard to get the game to a semi-playable state and are actively working on finding, isolating, and fixing the new bugs.

Your messages were not structured to be informative and their only purpose was to ridicule the effort of the contributor who performed the upstream.
Example, your opening message: “not sure what half baked prs have been added but man the game is so fucking janky now”
While it may or may not have been your intent, this message (and the messages following it) come across as if you feel entitled to the game being bug free.

When our lead maintainer, Durk, noticed you ridiculing the work of the upstream he, reasonably, got annoyed.

After you continue to double down:
moth [GGG],
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10/5/2026 3:50 PM
like bro im just pointing out bugs this mass pr merge did
[GGG],
the lemon
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10/5/2026 3:50 PM
gang you came in here mad (editors note: i clearly didnt?)

unrobust pussy bitch
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10/5/2026 3:50 PM
no you are calling people’s hours of effort half baked
moth [GGG],
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10/5/2026 3:50 PM
i mean when it renders the game unplayable yeah
the tomato
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10/5/2026 3:51 PM
Son
the lemon
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10/5/2026 3:51 PM
if you cant handle the heat get out the kitchen
unrobust pussy bitch
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10/5/2026 3:51 PM
i work on it for free and durk works on it for less than a reasonable wage

unrobust pussy bitch
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10/5/2026 3:51 PM
nearly every contributor works on it for free or goob coins
so like fuck off??
moth [GGG],
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10/5/2026 3:51 PM
like is testing not a thing?
unrobust pussy bitch
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10/5/2026 3:51 PM
you are welcome to volunteer yourself for playtesting

You then come back 4 days later with the same song and dance, dismissively complaining about a feature you dont like.

While Durk was blunt, sarcastic, and dismissive of you, you were the one to escalate the situation from complaining about the game and complaining about you complaining to insults on character.
“nah bro u hella sensitive if you think im bitching and moaning”

After a back and forth of this he rightfully banned you for… 1 hour.

In reference to the replies in this thread:
Durk is not being professional and will be yelled at.

You were the one to resort to insults first (and were the one continuing to insult). Durk saying that you were “bitching and moaning” is not an insult, it is a blunt but correct description of your behavior.

Parroting you, thats just “how he is”.