Tazdevil Abuse of Power

[Damp Eggplant]

Your Steam Name: Damp Eggplant
Your Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:114026107
Your Character Name (If Applicable): Rob Santoro

Admin being reported( Tag by writing @ before their forum name) @tazdevil335

Reason for Report: Abuse of Power/Player Abuse
Time of Occurrence: Started ever since October and Continued to now
Evidence to support your claim: I feel like the tense relationship between me and Taz is quite known in the community. I have a million examples I can go into:
1. The most obvious. I UNINSTALLED gmod early march after I was blacklisted on PD for 5 days after putting caution tape on liv's car. The man who blacklisted me of course was taz. Since taz has a very well known favoritism towards liv, I said how he was simping for her(i actually made a thread alluding to it https://monolithservers.com/forums/threads/the-simp-problem.30585/#post-186860) I said the following something along the lines of "I dont know why you would simp for her.. she is probably fat" (keep in mind this was mid argument with liv- a player who was always been toxic to me-I can provide video if necessary to show her toxicity)- I got permabanned from the discord server by TAZ- first offence ever on discord and it was not only a hypothetical statement but also mid argument. Although this is abuse enough, after this night I installed, so whenever that happened you can probably look was the last day I played on Monolith. I later uninstalled. Yet, somehow when I come back in later April, I see that I was banned by taz for player disrespect. At the time I had 1 month and 15 days left, so I am assuming the ban was for four months(I currently have four weeks left rn). SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW SOMEONE THAT HAD NOT EVEN PLAYED ON MONOLITH FOR A WHILE WAS BANNED FOR PLAYER DISRESPECT. It honestly seems absurd to me how someone could get away with something as blatantly egregious as that.

I have more reasoning:
Here: is taz's response to my first ban appeal:

Damp Eggplant Ban Appeal

Steam Name: Damp Eggplant Your SteamID32(You can obtain this from steamid.io): STEAM_0:1:114026107 Your Character Name: Rob Santoro Ban Length: Unknown- more than two months I believe Banning Staff Member (@AdminName to mention the staff member): @tazdevil335 Ban Reason: Player Disrespect...

monolithservers.com

Wow, that is very broad. I am supposedly toxic- if so why was I never punished before for player disrespect- the closes I got was an ooc abuse. I HAVE NO HISTORY OF PLAYER DISRESPECT RULE BREAKS YET I SUPPOSEDLY GOT BANNED FOR LIKE 4 MONTHS- although in the first place the whole ban is already false and its 4 month length just goes to show how much this man has it in for me. He also pointed specifically to the discord incident, saying I said worse- what could I have possibly said that is worse- I live in a house where I am not allowed to curse, so what could I have possibly said. @Numbers was in the chatroom, he might remember what went down. He also points to me lying to staff and my rule breaks. But isn't weird that I was just randomly banned for player disrespect.


2. Although I could point to a million examples, this one I felt like was quite indicative. After being brought in a sit( pictured in this video by chaco https://streamable.com/1gv0zm) he immediately started tearing on me, even though I was one of three (simon riley/huskyD0G was there in the sit)- as we were getting punishments, everyone was just getting short security blacklists, but then I was given a gun blacklist and a security blacklist- also in the sit, the third person complained in chat- taz immediately assumed it was me and almost banned me for "a month for admin disrespect" until I had to tell him

3. Taz used fear mongering to keep me from making reports- I was always afraid to say something about him in forums because in game he always threatened me with year long bans

4. Fun fact: the extremely well known thread that I published https://monolithservers.com/forums/threads/player-vs-staff.30521/ (Player Vs Staff) was based entirely on Tazdevil

@Thanewolfe could attest, I would always complain about taz to him

Also in discord messages, taz repeatly called me stupid before blocking me - talk about toxic

I can honestly go on forever- @Gurra this is the man that once gone will end a lot of suffering

Additional members involved/witnessing: @Bob Santoro @John Santoro @HuskyD0G @Chaco_Lato
Read, understood and followed staff report rules?: yes

 

[Deleted member 12627]

I'm not going to say anything regarding Taz being biased towards you, but your history of rule breaks is probably what led to your lengthy ban. I do have video of that exact situation you are mentioning, however I don't see either sit being needed to be shared at this time.

 

[Damp Eggplant]

I'm not going to say anything regarding Taz being biased towards you, but your history of rule breaks is probably what led to your lengthy ban. I do have video of that exact situation you are mentioning, however I don't see either sit being needed to be shared at this time.

I would love to see that sit- that is why I included you- that sit was the perfect example of him just tearing at me al the time

 

[Damp Eggplant]

I feel like Tazdevil's lack of response after a couple of days of this thread being up is indicative of his carefree nature.

 

[John Santoro]

I can second everything that was said in this report. During my mentor application, Taz devil used personal bias that was unfounded to act extremely unfairly to me during the whole mentor application process. I think many other community members would agree that the behavior similar to what Tazdevil has garnered is what makes Monolith unappealing to many players nowadays. I can use my own testimony to explain Taz's behavior as the sole cause I haven't been active on this server in two months. I hate playing on a server that makes me feel unwelcomed. Taz really seems to be too consumed with his pride and power on the server, so he really chooses who he hates and likes, and if you are one of the many unlucky ones, well good luck.

 

[tazdevil335]

If you read one thing in this post please read the last sentence

This post only further provides more examples that I have made in the past about how inappropriate and toxic of a player you are. Not only do you have a high level of toxicity in the server, but also to the staff team and the player base which is why your ban was so lengthy because despite the conversation between me and you that lasted over an hour to help you better explain. Along with thanewolfe attempting to do the same has to lead to nothing but a disillusion that you are creating for yourself to play the victim in your own story. And the tantrum that you throw every time something doesn't go your way and try to blame everyone else for something that has gone wrong except yourself, maybe you should be looking at the common denominator in all of these stories is yourself, not other players.

1. I have no recollection of blacklisting you for "police tape" what I do remember is the harassment that you were showing towards another member of the community, which for some reason just because it happens to be liv you feel the need to make that a sole reason you got blacklisted when it was, in fact, the multiple rules you broke while being a SWAT member. It had nothing to do with the player besides the fact of harassment. The blacklist came from the abuse of power shown while on SWAT.

Even in your own problem, you create a thread addressing an issue (which isn't even an issue on this server) the whole context of that post (Which has nothing to do with me) makes 0 sense as you couldn't even supply any substantial evidence indicating of such ludicrous "simp problems".

Not to mention in your own post you have repeatedly acknowledged that you have broken the rules of player harassment (yet again after previous warnings) and you were only banned by me because at the time the other 2 members in the discord call with you did not have the action to do so and I was the only one online atm, they brought it to my attention, I just happened to be the one who was online. Yet it doesn't matter if I was the one since you acknowledged that you broke a rule, so why are you so surprised that you were punished for it? It also was not the first offense, this was your first offense on discord but not in our community, I am simply not going to keep allowing a member to harass players including myself, in this community simply because they have been on different platforms. And there are no hypothetical statements, you made a statement towards a community member, which was reported by 2 staff members as well, and was punished accordingly. Your ban has not changed since I originally banned you for player harassment, just because you didn't see the ban doesn't make it my fault. Your ban was for 3 months and 2 days given at 3/22/21

And now you want to speak warnings, funny enough on the forums alone you have racked up the highest amount of warnings I have ever seen at 26 = 97 warning points within less than a year, 9 of which was marked for Inappropriate Content, and not a single one of the 26 warnings have been given by me.

Let's talk about server bans now you have been banned for Player Harassment - 3 Months 2 days, LTARP 1 day, LTARP 1 day, RDMx2 - 1 week, Misuse of OOC - 2 days, Player & Staff Disrespect - 3 days, Max warning points - 12 hours, Max warning points - 14 hours, and alt account was Perma, FailRP - 3 days, Misuse of OOC - 1 day. These the bans you have received, and warning points on the forums yet they fail to show any additional verbal warnings and warning points given in-game from staff members over the past year in all honestly maybe we are being biased from you since for some reason you have not permabanned fro the server after so many warnings, banns and variables where given. All of this and yet only 2 punishments for bans were made by me and 0 forum warnings were by me, yet somehow you have convinced yourself that I am a player targeting you, someone who until today I haven't needed to waste another breath on since I made the gracious decision to block you after you were harassing me on discord. And now you bring @Numbers into this like he would take your side yet he was the one who reported the incident to me in the first place.

2. Yes there is something called previous warnings and bans can be taken into account. If this is a confusing topic for you let me give you an example (If someone keeps breaking RDM and a first offense is a warning, we are simply not going to sit there and keep giving you verbal warnings, as that would be a useless punishment after multiple warnings.) They got lesser punishment because they haven't broken the rules as severely as you have. and at the ending, a simple misunderstanding, which caused no harm to anyone, which was corrected when informed and nothing came about it. I could speak on behalf of this punishment more however, I do not have access to your notes currently.

3, This is your own personal problem, and you are creating false accusations you have no proof of me ever using fear-mongering If you have proof then, by all means, please feel free to present it in this report, however, I do not handle staff reports so I'm not sure where this year-long ban idea is coming from.

4, You mean the thread that you did not mention my name once in? the thread that you state "staff" but don't provide any examples of me or about me? Yet you feel the need to create baseless accusations with no proof because you don't actually have any. But don't worry because I came with proof to support my side, something you are unfamiliar with.

Yes, that is something I would say, and even though I'm not saying that I did say that (once again a baseless accusation with no proof) I would stand by it to this day.

And even though it doesn't warrant a response because of how ridiculous you sound let's talk about the post you made stating that because I do not respond after not even 3 days it shows "indicative of his carefree nature" which I think is just hilarious. Not that it's any of your business, but I do have a job and was on LOA because it was a holiday where I worked over 40 hours in the past 5 days. Sorry the first thing on my mind wasn't "let me respond to some kid on gmod forums named damp eggplant on the forums because he's upset"

Let's not mention that you had your own twin brother comment in your support which is clearly so biased since you want to talk about biases which I won't even warrant a response to this comment because it is yet again more baseless accusations. Besides the fact that PMX also agreed on your status as a mentor be denied along with a long list of other recruitment team members.

And since this just keeps getting better and better with every post and comment you make, It wasn't even me who banned you from the server, yes I typed in the command, however, it was PMX who decided to ban you from the server for player harrasment.

 

[Damp Eggplant]

This post only further provides more examples that I have made in the past about how inappropriate and toxic of a player you are. Not only do you have a high level of toxicity in the server, but also to the staff team and the player base which is why your ban was so lengthy because despite the conversation between me and you that lasted over an hour to help you better explain. Along with thanewolfe attempting to do the same has to lead to nothing but a disillusion that you are creating for yourself to play the victim in your own story. And the tantrum that you throw every time something doesn't go your way and try to blame everyone else for something that has gone wrong except yourself, maybe you should be looking at the common denominator in all of these stories is yourself, not other players.

Tazdevil as always just goes in the very broad direction- says I am toxic even though he is the only one in the server that thinks that. Tazdevil has still decided to ignore to most crucial detail about the ban: when it was done. You still banned me after I had quit, so you offer no explanation about that- so it can only be reasoned that you just did it out of spite, since I LITERALLY couldn't have done anything since I did not even have GMOD installed. Also you act as if the conversation was productive, the whole time was you taking the high ground, you used the fact that you are going into HR to say that you have to be right. You also continued to call me and my brother the same person, which I feel like is quite indicative of your narrow-mindedness. You say I play victim, but its funny because you are targeting me. It is you that is making me a victim, not me. Also consider that the common denominator in situation is always you. All the injust situations with players such as Bob, Rob, and I- have one common denominator- you.

I have no recollection of blacklisting you for "police tape" what I do remember is the harassment that you were showing towards another member of the community, which for some reason just because it happens to be liv you feel the need to make that a sole reason you got blacklisted when it was, in fact, the multiple rules you broke while being a SWAT member. It had nothing to do with the player besides the fact of harassment. The blacklist came from the abuse of power shown while on SWAT.

@Kaizen has a video which she showed you- so if she would be so kind as to put it, I feel like that would be a very obvious indicator of Taz's lying. Also if I was harassing her, why did you just give me a pd blacklist. You seem to give me no mercy, yet when I was supposedly being abusive, you just give me a pd blacklist. HMMM... doesn't add up. Also, I am not protesting the blacklist, I just used it as details since it was what led to the situation that got me perma banned from discord by you- an incident you still have not explained, especially the fact that you perma ban me on my first offense.

Even in your own problem, you create a thread addressing an issue (which isn't even an issue on this server) the whole context of that post (Which has nothing to do with me) makes 0 sense as you couldn't even supply any substantial evidence indicating of such ludicrous "simp problems".

Stop trying to change the subject- we are not talking about my forum posts, we are talking about your power abuse. Also everybody knows that Nick Smith and Liv Kaizen always are together. So just lying about that will get you no where.

Not to mention in your own post you have repeatedly acknowledged that you have broken the rules of player harassment (yet again after previous warnings) and you were only banned by me because at the time the other 2 members in the discord call with you did not have the action to do so and I was the only one online atm, they brought it to my attention, I just happened to be the one who was online. Yet it doesn't matter if I was the one since you acknowledged that you broke a rule, so why are you so surprised that you were punished for it? It also was not the first offense, this was your first offense on discord but not in our community, I am simply not going to keep allowing a member to harass players including myself, in this community simply because they have been on different platforms. And there are no hypothetical statements, you made a statement towards a community member, which was reported by 2 staff members as well, and was punished accordingly. Your ban has not changed since I originally banned you for player harassment, just because you didn't see the ban doesn't make it my fault. Your ban was for 3 months and 2 days given at 3/22/21

What universe are you in Taz- when did I admit to player harassment... like what???? I did not acknowledge that I broke a rule and no where in my post do I say that so there you go lying again. Also, you still have not explained how one offence, (ONE THAT YOU WERENT EVEN THERE TO HEAR- AS YOU SAID " you were only banned by me because at the time the other 2 members in the discord call with you did not have the action to do so" YOU WERE NOT EVEN IN THE CALL") led to a permanent discord ban. Also my ban was on March 22, that is very very very very interesting....that was WEEKS after I uninstalled GMOD.... interesting.

And now you want to speak warnings, funny enough on the forums alone you have racked up the highest amount of warnings I have ever seen at 26 = 97 warning points within less than a year, 9 of which was marked for Inappropriate Content, and not a single one of the 26 warnings have been given by me.

Again, Taz trying to use random information against me. Any staff reviewing this are meant to carry out justice no matter what the past of the person is. You can not use my forum infractions as something to counter a completely different argument.

Let's talk about server bans now you have been banned for Player Harassment - 3 Months 2 days, LTARP 1 day, LTARP 1 day, RDMx2 - 1 week, Misuse of OOC - 2 days, Player & Staff Disrespect - 3 days, Max warning points - 12 hours, Max warning points - 14 hours, and alt account was Perma, FailRP - 3 days, Misuse of OOC - 1 day. These the bans you have received, and warning points on the forums yet they fail to show any additional verbal warnings and warning points given in-game from staff members over the past year in all honestly maybe we are being biased from you since for some reason you have not permabanned fro the server after so many warnings, banns and variables where given. All of this and yet only 2 punishments for bans were made by me and 0 forum warnings were by me, yet somehow you have convinced yourself that I am a player targeting you, someone who until today I haven't needed to waste another breath on since I made the gracious decision to block you after you were harassing me on discord. And now you bring @Numbers into this like he would take your side yet he was the one who reported the incident to me in the first place.

Right off the bat, I see that Taz has already forged evidence. I HAVE NEVER GOTTEN PLAYER DISRESPECT BAN, I love how he just added it on to Staff Disrespect as if I wouldn't notice. Also, I DONT HAVE A BANNED ALT GMOD ACCOUNT LIKE WHAAAT. I love how even in this paragraph, he supports my previous point: " he always threatened me with year long bans" - here he goes threatening a perma ban in a staff report. Also I would like to just mention how he filtered my punishments, like where are the blacklists- 90% of which he issued. Also with numbers, just like with all lower ranking staff you put them under your shadow so that if they say anything against you or that does not agree with you, they wont get promoted. As a SA, since you are the one that promotes such players to higher staff positions- so you abuse that to make them do anything for you.

2. Yes there is something called previous warnings and bans can be taken into account. If this is a confusing topic for you let me give you an example (If someone keeps breaking RDM and a first offense is a warning, we are simply not going to sit there and keep giving you verbal warnings, as that would be a useless punishment after multiple warnings.) They got lesser punishment because they haven't broken the rules as severely as you have. and at the ending, a simple misunderstanding, which caused no harm to anyone, which was corrected when informed and nothing came about it. I could speak on behalf of this punishment more however, I do not have access to your notes currently.

3, This is your own personal problem, and you are creating false accusations you have no proof of me ever using fear-mongering If you have proof then, by all means, please feel free to present it in this report, however, I do not handle staff reports so I'm not sure where this year-long ban idea is coming from.

4, You mean the thread that you did not mention my name once in? the thread that you state "staff" but don't provide any examples of me or about me? Yet you feel the need to create baseless accusations with no proof because you don't actually have any. But don't worry because I came with proof to support my side, something you are unfamiliar with.

I already addressed points 2 and 3 in my original. But 4, I just feel like is interesting because again here you go saying I have no proof, yet when that thread came out you said the same thing... and guess what... 224 people responded to it... most of which were ex staff agreeing. Like if that is not proof, what is?

Yes, that is something I would say, and even though I'm not saying that I did say that (once again a baseless accusation with no proof) I would stand by it to this day.

You basically confess about you saying it then you immediately say I have no proof....lol. "Ya know I did it but you dont have proof so ha"- that is what taz is essentially saying.

And even though it doesn't warrant a response because of how ridiculous you sound let's talk about the post you made stating that because I do not respond after not even 3 days it shows "indicative of his carefree nature" which I think is just hilarious. Not that it's any of your business, but I do have a job and was on LOA because it was a holiday where I worked over 40 hours in the past 5 days. Sorry the first thing on my mind wasn't "let me respond to some kid on gmod forums named damp eggplant on the forums because he's upset"

Let's not mention that you had your own twin brother comment in your support which is clearly so biased since you want to talk about biases which I won't even warrant a response to this comment because it is yet again more baseless accusations. Besides the fact that PMX also agreed on your status as a mentor be denied along with a long list of other recruitment team members.

You are an SA on this server, you act like this is just something you look at every once in a while, I saw you were on but you ignored it. You also say that it is not my business- yet there you went in my ban appeal judging my moral compass and constructs of respect-

Let's not mention that you had your own twin brother comment in your support which is clearly so biased since you want to talk about biases which I won't even warrant a response to this comment because it is yet again more baseless accusations. Besides the fact that PMX also agreed on your status as a mentor be denied along with a long list of other recruitment team members.

Again you are very narrow minded, although I feel like it is already insane that you are unaware that twins are two separate thinking individuals, but like I can go on about how you did him wrong, he alone has enough to make a staff report against you... but he doesn't want to waste his time on you. Also Taz... you love to say "baseless...no proof" but you have everyone saying you are abusive as a staff, then that is the community speaking...that is proof.

It wasn't even me who banned you from the server, yes I typed in the command, however, it was PMX who decided to ban you from the server for player harrasment.

I have only said like one word to PMX in my whole existence of Monolith RP. I have talked to him in forums, and it sure as heck wasn't toxic. Also if he did it, then why are you handling all this... if PMX wanted it he would have reasoning but you seem to pass your own reasoning off as his.


Look, I am not necessarily praying for Taz to lose his SA position, I just want him to leave me alone. If this SR fails, there is no doubt that I will be banned for a long time the second I come back.

 

[PMX]

Hello,

Im going to reply to a few parts of this report below.

I said the following something along the lines of "I dont know why you would simp for her.. she is probably fat"

This is completely unacceptable. If the person was toxic to you at anytime, you should report them, instead of breaking the rules yourself - it is not how it works.

I got permabanned from the discord server by TAZ- first offence ever on discord and it was not only a hypothetical statement but also mid argument.

The ban is more than warranted, if you said what you said and because you have an extensive record in this community (in all of our platforms). The ban is not permanent, however, and you are free to appeal it at anytime.

Although this is abuse enough

It was not abuse, per what I mentioned above.

I later uninstalled. Yet, somehow when I come back in later April, I see that I was banned by taz for player disrespect.

As mentioned by tazdevil, if you break our rules in one of our platforms we reserve the right to remove you from any other platforms if we deem so necessary. In this case, you were banned from the gmod server as well, after being banned from the discord.

2. Although I could point to a million examples, this one I felt like was quite indicative. After being brought in a sit( pictured in this video by chaco https://streamable.com/1gv0zm) he immediately started tearing on me, even though I was one of three (simon riley/huskyD0G was there in the sit)- as we were getting punishments, everyone was just getting short security blacklists, but then I was given a gun blacklist and a security blacklist- also in the sit, the third person complained in chat- taz immediately assumed it was me and almost banned me for "a month for admin disrespect" until I had to tell him

This video does not show the situation you are describing, so I can't judge what happened. However, I can say that sometimes players get different lengths/punishments according to their records.

. Taz used fear mongering to keep me from making reports- I was always afraid to say something about him in forums because in game he always threatened me with year long bans

If you have evidence of this, please provide it. Only Server Directors and above are allowed to handle staff reports. If the report showed tazdevil or any other staff member breaching staff guidelines they would be dealt with accordingly. In addition to this, long bans and ban appeals associated with long bans are often reviewed by Community Management.

Also in discord messages, taz repeatly called me stupid before blocking me - talk about toxic

If you have evidence of this, please provide it. You need to support such a claim with evidence that shows it happened. Otherwise, we cannot do anything.

I feel like Tazdevil's lack of response after a couple of days of this thread being up is indicative of his carefree nature.

This is completely false. Our staff members also have things to deal with in real life and sometimes must take a leave of absence in order to do that.

I can second everything that was said in this report. During my mentor application, Taz devil used personal bias that was unfounded to act extremely unfairly to me during the whole mentor application process. I think many other community members would agree that the behavior similar to what Tazdevil has garnered is what makes Monolith unappealing to many players nowadays. I can use my own testimony to explain Taz's behavior as the sole cause I haven't been active on this server in two months. I hate playing on a server that makes me feel unwelcomed. Taz really seems to be too consumed with his pride and power on the server, so he really chooses who he hates and likes, and if you are one of the many unlucky ones, well good luck.

You are more than welcome to play on the server and stay in the community/interact with other community members. However, as mentioned previously on several occasions, we are quite selective when adding people to the mentor team and specially to our staff team. We want to ensure that our mentors set the example and that our staff members enforce the community rules and follow the staff guidelines at all times. If we do not trust someone to have administrative privileges in the community or if we don't believe someone is able to set the example as a mentor, to other players, due to past incidents, we won't make that person a mentor or staff member.
In your case in particular (@John Santoro), as tazdevil said, we do not feel believe you would set the example on the server as a mentor and we do not trust you with administrative privileges in the community. Therefore, we are unable to make you a mentor or staff member.

As for @Damp Eggplant, you have several infractions on your record (in game bans, forum warning points which resulted in some forum bans, etc), and you are punished accordingly if you break rules. We always take into account a player's history when issuing punishments and may extend those punishments to other platforms if we deem it necessary, as mentioned.

Look, I am not necessarily praying for Taz to lose his SA position, I just want him to leave me alone. If this SR fails, there is no doubt that I will be banned for a long time the second I come back.

You will only be punished accordingly if you break any rules. However, if you feel a punishment is not right, you can always create a ban appeal or a staff report, if needed.
You can also contact a Server Director or above if you have any issues with a staff member.

Staff report denied.