u/Toxarine

First things first I know this is already kind of a weird situation. But let me give some context. So recently a public server I joined is getting these crazy Mr Beast spam ping messages. It's like 7 at a time and it pings different chats so it comes up as several pings on my phone. It's crazy annoying especially considering I'm on vacation getting away from things with my gf (unrelated to the story but context!). It happened over 4-6 times over the course of a week and a half in this server alone during said vacation. I figure it happens no big deal. I'll express my displeasure with the situation in the general with an 'angry ping emoji' and just go about my day. I did not receive any reply mentions or personal DM's after the first time it happened and it isn't against the server rules. So naturally I assume everything is fine. I don't really check this server often because it's for a venue in Final Fantasy 14 I only go to occasionally. So I'm not super active unless I'm there for the night.

Fast forward a day or two and the scan happens again. So I hit 'mark read', send the angry ping emoji again in the general and leave it at that. Then I notice I'm getting spam pinged again. Irritating but alright. I notice it's from the server owner. I check the server out of curiosity and notice I've been timed out for a week. No other offenses or warnings. Just full on timeout for a week.

The server spam pings messages saying that I must think they're some sort of joke to them and that they didn't outright ban me because I knew a different server owner and it was out of respect for them. I ask what is wrong and what did I do because I genuinely didn't understand. I expressed that I have been on vacation and haven't been paying much attention to Discord for the past week. They say I was warned not to post the emoji and to knock it off or I would be banned next time. I ask about the warning because no member of the staff of the server had mentioned anything to me and it wasn't against any server rules or ToS. Also prior to her spam messaging me, this was my first communication with them. I mention I have proof that I was never contacted about it but would accept the punishment regardless. Their server their rules right? It's whatever and I didn't really care because, again, I don't really talk much there to begin with.

They get immediately upset again and spam message me again asking repeatedly for the proof I have saved. Saying 'I'll show you mine if you show me yours'. Didn't give me a chance to really respond. Posted their screenshot and continued to ping message me. I calmly showed them that I have @message only turned on and that, though her screenshot shows I was told not to do it, I wasn't notified. I also mentioned that their general moves fast enough that unless I was watching the chat (I had no reason to), I wouldn't have seen the warning unless they had @mentioned me with their reply. I said there was no way to check if they had it turned off. They also accused me of not having the same behavior in other servers when the scam happens there. To which I posted a screenshot of a similar reaction in a different server. I.E., the proof they were begging for. They stop spam pinging me messages saying they had said their piece and then immediately blocked me. This was after saying I 'have to have the last word'.

Little bit broken up story wise but the point is there. I feel massively disrespected and don't feel like I deserve such an angry message over an emoji. AIO?