Join the best SoD related discord server!

I would love to join but unfortunately I aint allowed discord. Soz

     I'm in the server for a good while (since June on this year) because I was curious and who knows, maybe the server is good. Let me start off to say that while my identity in their server is a mystery, no, I did not join as a spy or anything like it. I really just joined for the sake of curiosity. I wanna throw that out there before anyone of either side begins to crucify me as some Team Fortress 2 Spy looking to throw down the other team - that ain't what I'm doing.

     I also want to give a second context to this, this guy has been advertising the server everywhere as THE best SoD server - on this Forum for the 4th time ever since someone said they can advertise it but forgot to say you shouldn't spam with it, on the SoD Reddit (here [warning for foul language] and here), on HTTYD Reddit, and even a Disboard bot in the server where they can bump the server at any given point. They all have the exact same advertisement method - it's the best SoD server and seemingly use a temporary link on purpose to advertise it in mass. At some point, this gets more annoying than good because what you could've done is create a central post, add a perma-invite, and if you see the central post isn't on the 1st page, you bump it and done. But the guy prefers doing the spam way in spite of been told to do this easier-to-manage, less-buggy-to-people method in the last post.

     So, since they call themselves as the best, you should expect a nice welcome, a proper introduction to the server and their channels, an accessible exploration, you name it. And usually, servers try to be as less busy and channel-heavy as possible, more specifically "is this channel truly needed to be on its own, or can you just merge with x". Well, once you land on #hello and not the #rules, the server channels looks like this.

     For a Welcome & Info category, it's filled with anything of any category - Art Event on top, rules and announcements in two different points, roles and their information are in complete separate channels when there's bots that can both moderate, and display both the role buttons and their information all in one section (then again, with a role information looking like this, no wonder they need a separate channel). From experience as an admin of three servers, Rules, Role Info, Role Get, and Application can all fit inside one channel, either through a Document, Threads, or proper organization from biggest matter to least matter, then followed by announcements, and welcome can be either on top or bottom. Same with the Chit Chat and Art, everything's all over the place and most of them could be merged into one singular channel.

     And yes, you are seeing it right, a face reveal channel in a server heavily themed on a MMORPG game that is highly prone to uncomfortable encounters and all sort of wrong deems like any other MMORPG. Why is there a need for that channel in a MMORPG game themed server? Heck if I know.

     Most of the drama of this server come from the Suggestions and they are not lying - if the suggestion is something they don't really want to do, they'll firstly try to defend themselves/shut you up then if they really have to, they do the suggestion in a begrudging manner. For instance Tiger said "the mod who came up with the idea completely ignored what I had said and told me that "this is the way we do it" and "if you don't like it, you can either not post art here or leave the server." in regard of a channel literally dedicated to admins post what they think it's worth to be on a dedicated channel like a parent grabbing a child's drawing a post it on the fridge. What, you can't find the full argument or the channel? Well, welcome to another step they do with some of the suggestions and it's semi-clear the evidence through deleting replies or a channel purge. Down below is literally what rest of the argument looking somewhat disjointed with the owner begrudgingly accepting in deleting it for the sake of "look, we accepted your suggestion now shut up".

     Another suggestion Storm mentioned and got them muted (though admitedly, the full convo shows why they were muted was not for the suggestion, but yes the ruckus they did so credit where credit is due, imo, they were muted for a good reason) was a +18 channel which by default, should be a requirement considering the game whose server is based on is for children. And it doesn't just apply to pictures, it should apply to what you say - and ironically enough, there is a pin hightlighting another reason why. Considering how they have a rule to follow the guidelines of Discord and advertising the server in mass can likely attract young children into a world of non-moderated swears and jokes - you'd think by this point they'd do the suggestion since the advertisement refuses to highlight how the server is not kid-friendly with the swears getting thrown everywhere.

    Spoiler alert: They did not. They still allow swears (case 1 and case 2, even the rules say it under #13), they still haven't created a +18 channel (go ahead and use BetterDiscord > ShowHiddenChannels plugin which allows you to just see the channels and not what's inside it, and take good look around, no +18 is found). They are willingly aware that the server is not kid-friendly and yet advertise it in mass in a forum for a children game. And just like everything else, there's a high chance they will edit or delete the evidence to clear their names.

     Drama aside, if you don't mind whatever this is, then surely you wouldn't mind the constant use of @everyone over ANYTHING. They have a updates role which gives LESS reason to use it. And yet, they. just. keep. using everyone instead. Literally. Mostly for the most mundane thing you can think of. Imagine getting everyone-ed over some guy's birthday or a joke, or a... public execution like the Middle Ages. With the infamous one seemingly being the owner thinking some random person with a different SoD server who they call it a "ripoff" being the same person that said the cursed word (you know the one). You can say "oh if you don't like the everyone ping then don't join the server/turn them off" and I would be fine if they didn't already have an updates role exactly for what it says on the tin, giving them no excuse to use @everyone over something like a dude's birthday instead of using it for something actually important.

     Oh and did I mentioned that if you want to be a moderator, Gods forbid you for being bilingual or have a faulty grammar or heck, make a typo, because doing it so reduces your chance at being a moderator. And when you do become a mod, you can be payed. Ain't joking about that one.

     And that's my tidbit about this ordeal of a server, if you're looking to be constantly pinged, be in a willing to be a +18 server advertised in a forum for a children game, and have a russian roulette over a suggestion, this server's for you.